The phrase "adjustment of expectations" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the need to change or modify what one anticipates or hopes for in a given situation.
Example: "After reviewing the project's challenges, we realized that an adjustment of expectations was necessary to align with the new timeline."
Alternatives: "realignment of expectations" or "modification of expectations".
(This "movement of resignation" is described as "monastic", although it does not literally entail becoming a recluse. It is an internal movement, an adjustment of expectations).
These overtures confirm what has been clear to many for a while: that austerity is not a temporary response to a crisis, but a permanent adjustment of expectations and living standards for the majority.
This is an adjustment of expectations from market gains of 15% to 20% each year to more reasonable expectations of 7% to 8%." In a paper circulated privately last summer Wigmore pointed out that earnings of the S&P 500 as a percentage of GDP were at an unsustainable peak of nearly 5%.
Hope, in this case, begins with an adjustment of expectations.
This adjustment of expectations is arguably amongst the most important thing genomicists can do to ensure continued research.
But the questions of why boys and girls are supposed to do different things go mostly unexplored, and the gender reversals are largely written off as the crazy product of extraordinary geopolitical circumstance, not acknowledged as meaningful adjustments of expectation or prejudice.
The adjustment of volume leads to a readjustment of expectations, and the pricey food seems only as good as it should be, given the refinement of the air around it.
Huff's latest story is one of adjustment, of changed expectations.
This may possibly be explained by an adjustment of patient expectations due to public discussion of the problem.
But a slight shift in perspective – a generational shift, partly, but also an adjustment of sensibilities and expectations – brings a very different picture into view.
Recently, Locker and Gibson [ 31] found that half of the elderly subject investigated who described their oral health as poor, were still satisfied with their oral health status, a finding that was attributed to changes and adjustment of values and expectations in later life.
