Sentence examples for diminished Expectations from inspiring English sources

They're also about fear and diminished expectations.

Isn't that an example of gravely diminished expectations?

Like the Great Communicator, Mr. Bush is benefiting from diminished expectations.

National Semiconductor, a maker of computer chips, reported fiscal second-quarter profits that surpassed diminished expectations.

The auction houses faced straitened circumstances with new strategies as well as shaken confidence and diminished expectations.

"Granted, we have diminished expectations, but companies are doing a decent job beating on the profit side," he said.

Persistent damage to economies' growth potential would result in a darker future of sluggish income gains and diminished expectations.

Perhaps the biggest is that Wall Street firms and banks have fallen short of investors already diminished expectations again and again in recent months.

Juniper Networks, the smaller rival of Cisco Systems in the market for Internet routers, today reported second-quarter earnings that edged past Wall Street's already diminished expectations.

Wall Street was encouraged after several companies, including General Electric, reported financial results that met or exceeded stock analysts' diminished expectations.

"Diminished expectations had become the defining force for this post-hippie, post-punk generation," she writes.