Anticipating opposition from his own party as well as the Republicans, Mr Obama never made a serious push on immigration, to the dismay of Hispanic voters.
If we have to go down, we have to go down fighting," Manmohan Singh, the prime minister, said at the cabinet meeting that took the decisions, anticipating opposition from within his coalition which could reduce the government's parliamentary majority.
Homing in on the driver's license clause, Assemblyman James N. Tedisco, a Republican from Schenectady, said he anticipated opposition to that provision — and, by extension, the bill — would be strong.
They had anticipated opposition, but they found instead a conspicuous, almost eerie, absence of military-age men.
Benintendi said he anticipated opposition to the project because the four other American cities to establish formal ties to Palestinian cities encountered similar opposition.
Anticipating opposition to the latter, he got his biggest applause by declaring that the Environmental Protection Agency "needs an attitude adjustment".
Some opponents said that they believed that the bill was fast-tracked without a hearing in the House not because Congressional officials did not anticipate opposition, but because museums wanted to be discreet about pushing legislation that would block people from reclaiming looted art.
Bain, anticipating further opposition from creditors, preemptively sued Big Lots to get a Delaware state court to explicitly endorse the recap; that case is pending.
Monday's ruling comes the day before a crunch House of Commons vote on the Prime Minister's Brexit deal, which she is anticipated to lose amid opposition from all sides.
