Although there has been continual expectation of breakthroughs, there are still no solutions.
Richards later said that the band had no great expectations of breakthrough through in the US, and that if their second attempt was not successful, they would not try again.
One of the main goals of SAM is to identify organic molecules, but it would be a big surprise for organics to show up in a first look at a sand sample selected more as a test exercise than with the expectation of a breakthrough discovery.
Merkel and her team had spent all day lowering expectations of breakthroughs, big bangs, full-range bazookas; as dinner for the eurozone 17 loomed it looked pretty clear they were right.
WASHINGTON — Global talks on climate change opened in Cancún, Mexico, on Monday with the toughest issues unresolved and little expectation of a breakthrough on shaping an international treaty to curb emissions of the heat-trapping gases linked to global warming.
The White House called on the 12 members of the special committee to finish their work, but with no expectation of a breakthrough, the leaders of the committee planned to issue a statement on Monday acknowledging that they had failed to reach an agreement.
It's the expectation of the breakthrough that has to sustain you through arguments, failures and deafening silence.
U.S., Russian, EU and Ukrainian diplomats plan to meet Thursday in Geneva, but there is little expectation of a breakthrough.
Ever since a climate summit meeting in Copenhagen broke up in acrimony at the end of 2009, climate negotiators have sought to tamp down expectations of a breakthrough.
US officials are playing down expectations of a breakthrough or Russian concessions meaningful enough to avoid new American and European sanctions.
