Joy Global said quarterly profits fell, but a rise in orders helped the maker of mining equipment beat expectations and issue a confident outlook for the rest of 2010.
You stand straight, in a state of confident expectation, regardless of any challenge that confronts you.
Motorists have become used to getting into an ordinary car in confident expectation of being able to drive hundreds of miles on a full tank and, with an occasional glance at the fuel gauge, finding a filling station when the fuel runs low.
Tens of thousands of Arkansas, a horde of journalists, and a sprinkling of national celebrities ignored a tornado warning and poured into the streets in the confident expectation of a Democratic victory.
For example, many people believe that the huge number of players who have been picked for the national side in recent years is explained by the confident expectation that a player's transfer value will soar once he becomes a Brazilian international.
A far-eastern investor is happy to put up the cash for properties that might not be completed for a couple of years, in the confident expectation that the investment will deliver huge and secure dividends, given London house-price inflation.
Webster's dictionary defines hope as "to expect or wish... to be optimistic... to cherish a desire of good... with expectation of obtaining it or belief that it is obtainable...to place confidence in, to trust with confident expectation of good".
Thus, we decided to re-visit the data to see if the improved software performance would allow new components to be identified using the larger UniProt database, which contains roughly three times as many bovine protein entries, but is going to return less confident expectation value estimates as a result.
Financing is who lends the capital in order to get the thing built in the first place, for a return on the loan and in the confident expectation that the capital will eventually be repaid.
Even more valuable, however, is a norm of generalized reciprocity: I'll do this for you without expecting anything specific back from you, in the confident expectation that someone else will do something for me down the road.
Then there's the fact that Christmas was an age ago, so you wake every morning with the confident expectation that spring is just around the corner, to be reminded that, no, there are still a good few months of darkness.
