So let me begin by saying this: tonight's Olympic basketball match between China and the United States is the most eagerly anticipated sporting contest in Chinese history.
PRAGUE — In the most highly anticipated Kontinental Hockey League contest since the N.H.L. lockout began 24 days ago, Alexander Ovechkin and Zdeno Chara continued their rivalry Tuesday, skating for their newest clubs, Dynamo Moscow and HC Lev Praha.
There we anticipate a contest dominated by pace bowlers with a couple of spinners on hand to offer backup.
They know they want Corbyn out and assume this will happen; some give me quite detailed timetables as they anticipate a contest in 2017.
What is more, Mr. Santorum is not only working his Republican base hard but, anticipating a contest that could be decided by a few points either way, has also begun to go after the Democrats' base.
The Liverpool forward could yet flourish in the more open contest anticipated in Durban this evening.
They had played eight times since, Murray winning six of them, but neither could have anticipated the ninth contest would take them into the fifth set of a slam, with 127 ranking places and eight years in age between them.
When Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore appear side by side in Boston on Tuesday before the largest single television audience of the presidential campaign, officials in both camps say, the stakes will be far greater than they had anticipated because the contest is so excruciatingly tight.
The 27,000-strong crowd, which had anticipated a hard-fought contest, appeared similarly dazed.
The withdrawal will produce a much tighter contest than anticipated, between two former generals from two different generations: Prime Minister Ehud Barak, 58, and Ariel Sharon, 72, head of the Likud Party.
