"Far more disturbing are the expectations that people have of what a democracy can deliver, and which research shows it is incapable of doing.
"The allegations involving Ms Solo are disturbing and are inconsistent with our expectations of Olympians.
Scott Blackmun, CEO of the U.S. Olympic Committee, told USA Today that "the allegations involving Ms. Solo are disturbing and are inconsistent with our expectations of Olympians.
Disturbed people and disturbing images.
Some patients may now feel they were provided with false reassurance over last week's figures when they were told that no surgeon's record was outside expectations, and they may find that disturbing.
The widespread critical vituperation that greeted Mr. LaChiusa last season, both for "Marie Christine" and for his fiercely imagined, often electrifying "Wild Party" score, reflected a disturbing backlash against a younger composer who dared to confound critical expectations.
Finally, the plot of Lurid and Cute by Adam Thirlwell, a novel full of unnerving linguistic juxtapositions, plays with readers' expectations while the internal dysfunction of the narrator makes disturbing, self-justifying sense of it all.
For ethical reasons previously mentioned, we set the time frame as each patient's remaining lifetime and this could have added a disturbing influence on the TTO utilities, namely the effect of subjective expectations about the age of death and quality of life.
February's ISM Manufacturing Index was above expectations (pdf), but some say it's not rosy and Markos Kaminis says the manufacturing report offered some disturbing data.
Contrary to Enlightenment expectations, the uncontrolled pursuit of interests, whether by an individual or a class, proved just as proficient at disturbing social peace as the mindless pursuit of glory.
