Sentence examples for barely expected from inspiring English sources

I started as a music journalist so don't lecture me about not expecting sage political commentary from musicians (it got to the point where I barely expected coherent speech).

Most of these athletes had just pulled off a deeply desired but barely expected win, after countless months and years of training, and their first thought, of course, was, Holy shit, I did it.

A stunning mutiny by evangelical and conservative Republicans punctured the tyres of the supposed frontrunner Mitt Romney in last night's trio of nomination contests and instead gave a sudden and barely expected jolt of adrenalin to the staunch social conservative in the race, Rick Santorum.

He is summoned from a place that he knows like his own hand; he is packed off to a country of whose existence he was unaware and with which he had no quarrel; he is asked to fight, and possibly to die, in the defeat of an enemy whom he is barely expected to comprehend; and then, if he survives, he is sent back home, to resume his familiar ways.

His book explores the crushing weight of trying to grow up in a place so threatening that you barely expect to survive to adulthood, the confusion of becoming a black man when the templates are "Barack Obama" and "Akai Gurley," and the inhuman pressures faced by black people fighting to find their own identities in a sea of hostile stereotypes.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - When Benjamin Netanyahu sent a tweet in support of President Donald Trump's plan for a wall along the Mexican border, the Israeli prime minister can barely have expected it would be retweeted 40,000 times and cause a backlash at home and abroad.

It passed with barely a murmur of interest in Gaza and the West Bank.Palestinians were hardly expecting anything different.

They have already done less well this year than most investors expected, barely making any progress in the first four months of the year.

Guidance on top-line profits for the full-year barely budged: Vodafone expected to do no worse than £11.6bn instead of £11.4bn the last time it spoke.

The book consists of four points of view, Clarke, Wells and Bellamy (who are sent to Earth), and Glass, who barely escaped the expected suicide mission.

As reported in the 11 October issue of Science, RAS officials confirm that their institutes have received only 67% of the funding they were due by the end of July, while institutes outside the academic framework have gotten barely half the expected amount.