Since UK unemployment has dropped unexpectedly soon to 7.1%, the BoE is trying to counter expectations of rate rises.
The Labor Department announced yesterday that 93,000 jobs were lost in August, countering expectations that employment would finally begin to expand.
The Labor Department announced that 93,000 jobs were lost in August, countering expectations that employment would begin to expand and extending to 22 months an economic recovery that has failed to halt job losses.
LONDON — A mysterious three-part painting that is viewed as a Francis Bacon masterpiece sold for $46.1 million Wednesday night at a Christie's auction here, countering expectations of a record price for his work.
Since coming to power, Zuma has consistently countered expectations: he has defended his personal promiscuity while becoming an avowed AIDS activist; he is a populist who has maintained free-market economic policies and alienated the poor; he is a powerful leader in a dominant party who has a hard time taking action.
Instead, counter-expectation is activated through a number of interwoven elements.
In this excerpt then, Seattle coffee shops (and likely Starbucks in particular) are the primary target of negative Appreciation via counter-expectation, a typical engagement strategy.
The counter-expectation property of affixal negation extends even to contradictory, middle-excluding adjectives like alive/dead; nothing can be both and nothing capable of being either can be "in between".
This negative attitude towards the three named buildings is thus underscored by the counter-expectation which follows, which at the same time acts to positively evaluate the target the Chrysler Building.
Context and local references are salient here: the fact that the music is being played in Seattle coffee shops in the mid-nineties is significant for the reading of negative attitude toward these coffee shops via counter-expectation (item (6c), Fig. 2), which is not explicitly signalled but is rather an effect of comparison, or contrast.
