Sentence examples similar to entertain expectations from inspiring English sources

Many are naïve, knowing little about Europe, and they are encouraged by people-smugglers to entertain unrealistic expectations.

From its inception the colony had entertained grandiose expectations of its future economic and demographic development.

He may have hoped that they would be provided to the grand jury, and surely there was that possibility, but there was insufficient evidence to "enable a rational trier of fact to conclude that [Bruder] knew" that this would happen or that he entertained any expectations on that score that were based on such knowledge.

But that does not mean residents of this island of Russian territory wedged between Poland and Lithuania do not entertain certain European expectations.

The question of social norms does not really arise with great apes, as they do not have the cognitive capacities to entertain mutually shared expectations.

Writing for the court, Justice Harry Blackmun blithely said that "we doubt that people in general entertain any actual expectation of privacy in the numbers they dial".

"To its lively regret, however, the proceedings, neither on the side of France nor Luxemburg, have corresponded to the expectations entertained.

Mr. Devlin said a critical part of what had carried him forward were modest expectations and a desire to entertain the audience.

As Ms. Bauer's cheeky compliment and its twangy delivery imply, "At Large" the performance both delights in and critiques the expectation that, if successful, a dance will entertain.

You have to entertain certain ways in order to bring money to the church.' "There's an expectation of lifestyle in a community," he continued.

Further, British parents have high expectations, they want programmes for their children at all stages of development that nourish, inform, educate, entertain and reflect Britain.