Five of these participants used the word 'concerned' about their impending results and were tentatively expecting negative results ('think' they will be bad); others were more definite in their expectations of negative results.
Rather than publicizing definite standards and expectations for bailouts in advance, the Fed and the Treasury confront each particular crisis anew.
"Most assailants work from a definite set of expectations about how the victim will respond, and they need the victim to act like a victim," theologian Walter Wink wrote in The Powers That Be.
With the 18th-century German Lutheran mystic and Pietist F.C. Oetinger, the end-time expectation generated definite social and political demands e.g., dissolution of the state, abolition of property, and elimination of class differences.
Expectations ranged from definite and strong for more FMSs at the health clinics to low expectation for FMSs' involvement in research; to mal-expectation on FMSs' involvement in community and public health programmes.
Not definitive, just definite.
The expectation for more FMSs was definite and strong, in contrast to low expectations of FMSs to be involved in research.
"Our plan is that he'll stay here," Allofs said – but it sounded like a declaration more of hope than expectation and a definite move away from the "not for sale" message of a few weeks ago.
But the embattled company showed a spark of life Wednesday night by releasing earnings that exceeded the expectations of Wall Street a definite must if you're trying to convince the financial markets that your fortunes are indeed turning around.
I began this film with a definite position and a set of expectations.
"A demand for an explanation that is quick, definite and unchanging reflects a naïve expectation — or in the present case, irresponsible politicking," James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence, said at an intelligence symposium on Oct. 9.
