Our qualitative research shows evidence of different, and conflicting, framings of expectation in relation to the promise of methadone, especially between methadone as a hope for addiction recovery and as a means of HIV prevention.
Both books presented special challenges as we navigated distances of space, communications technology, language, armed conflict, and expectations of the role and purpose of storytelling.
For those of us who are both afflicted and blessed by the tendency to feel deeply about people and things, we may find ourselves very conflicted about the flurry of expectations for us to spend money and experience joy for the "holidays".
The conference aims to find a peaceful resolution to nearly three years of conflict, although expectations are low, especially as fierce fighting continues in Syria.
For women who had adapted to particularly hostile environments (i.e., homelessness), coping strategies were often in direct conflict with expectations of services [ 34].
Societal expectations of a 'real man' to be fearless, resilient, and emotionally stable are in direct conflict with expectations of the treatment programme that one has to demonstrate health-promoting behaviour, such as promptness in attending the care and treatment clinic, agreeing to take HIV tests, and disclosing one's status of living with HIV to at least one's spouse or partner.
Couples who are divorcing or separating will find the experience more traumatic because of conflicting expectations raised by reform of the Children Act 1989, he warns.
Issues of conflict of interest, of appropriate expectations regarding the obligations of researchers and those of a for-profit player (to each other, to the participants and to the wider society) abound.
Ultimately, the story's conflict of technology with reality turns into one of expectations versus reality of selfish desires conflicting with the needs of others.
In a society of conflicting expectations, where hyper-sexualized media images confront intensifying expectations of women as sober, competent and responsible breadwinners, it's quite possible that for some of his female sympathizers, Jahar offers a magnet for their own feelings of frustration and powerlessness in a messy world.
