Our vote held up, we had not anticipated the Tory vote collapsing quite so dramatically.
It was hardly the occasion anticipated at Hampden.
Sturgeon now admits that the SNP had not anticipated the pro-UK's side early intervention on the currency and, in the end, lost the referendum after failing to overcome people's fears on the economy.
Richards, who has been Ofcom chief executive since 2004 and last year was a candidate to be the BBC director general when George Entwistle got the job last year, admitted he had "stuck around [at Ofcom] a few more years than I ever anticipated".
The inquiry had previously heard Sinodinos was brought onto the board because of his Liberal party connections as the company anticipated a switch to a Liberal NSW government in 2011.
The lobbying push underlines the sensitivity surrounding Pope Francis's highly anticipated encyclical on the environment, whose aim will be to frame the climate change issue as a moral imperative.
The statement, which will outline anticipated cuts of around £3bn, is expected on Thursday in the final hours before parliament rises for the Christmas break.
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Even from that precarious position, as Blair had anticipated, the new first minister made like Teddy Roosevelt, using his official residence, Bute House, as a bully pulpit to build support for the SNP and independence.
"A lot of people had anticipated that after a referendum victory the Labour party would become more confident and seize the agenda, and the opposite happened.
Barts health, the NHS's biggest trust, had the largest deficit with just under £80m, almost twice as much as anticipated.
