Sentence examples for I had initially expected from inspiring English sources

While I had initially expected the description of a "natural environment" to be neighborhoods, natural features and other parts of their geographic locations, participants provided mostly domestic working spaces like their studios and bedrooms.

As we snoozed on Dedi's porch, between being served rice, dog stew, nyale goreng and pitangs, it dawned on me that rather than the bloodthirst I had initially expected, the Pasola has more to do with restoring peace, venting ag- gression and resolving disputes between the clans.

As we snoozed on Dedi's porch, between being served rice, dog stew, nyale goreng, and pitangs, it dawned on me that rather than the bloodthirst I had initially expected, the Pasola has more to do with restoring peace, venting aggression, and resolving disputes between the clans.

When the company filed to go public in the spring last year, it had initially expected to raise up to $72 million.

The carrier lost 8.1 billion yen ($66 million) in the half-year and now expects to lose 18 billion yen for the full year; it had initially expected a profit of 2 billion yen.

BP said Tuesday that it paid a total of $16.6 billion into a trust fund, and it expects payments to end in the fourth quarter of this year, a year earlier than it had initially expected.

France Télécom raised just 6.3 billion euros ($5.9 billion) by offering 13percentt of Orange to the public, less than half what it had initially expected, though a companion offering of convertible bonds was greeted more warmly and raised 2.7 billion euros ($2.5 billion).

But, campaign officials said, Ms. Cahill wanted to lower the commission rate further, in light of the prospect that the Kerry organization would be spending tens of millions of dollars more on advertising between now and midsummer than it had initially expected.

The suspects were better armed than the police had initially expected.

Still, the deal would deliver far less than the roughly $1.5 billion Regions had initially expected.

New gun restrictions in Colorado, New York, Connecticut and Maryland went further than many advocates on both sides had initially expected.