Sentence examples for common expectation from inspiring English sources

A common expectation of retirement is that one's standard of living will remain the same or get better.

My family and I recently spent a year in Israel, where there is such a common expectation.

That, at least, is the common expectation, said Robert L. Rodriguez, chief executive of First Pacific Advisors and co-manager of the FPA New Income mutual fund.

When in the late 1950's, Norman decided to step down as publisher, the common expectation was that control would go to his brother, Philip, the paper's general manager, a fervent conservative and member of the John Birch Society.

She quickly gained popularity with the audience, and the common expectation that she would soon be given her own show came true within a few years of her television debut.

To be sure, Berlioz's harmonic system seems the same throughout, partly because it deviates so noticeably from common expectation and partly because its nuances are only now being appreciated for what they are, instead of being looked upon as clumsy attempts to do something else.

By creating opportunities for sexual companionship among the other members of the marriage, polygyny also supports the once common expectation that women will remain sexually abstinent for two or more years beginning in the last months of pregnancy (or upon parturition).

It's a bit presumptuous considering the common expectation is that you don't author your own Wikipedia entry.

Sometimes the error is so serious, that even the common expectation: "DFT provides the correct ground state" is refuted.

Similarly, the burden of all functional categories is ordered by common expectations as to how often such mutations are expected to be functional.

Wheater says a big aim of the workshops is to challenge the common expectations of the material.