Luckily, unlike other mediocre sequels, "Clerks II" lives up to the expectations established by the original film.
So to this group, with no tradition to follow or expectations established, the act of winning a game, even in the preseason, had significance.
Expectations established in the private sector, with rewards for the most senior managers skyrocketing, have bled into the public and voluntary spheres.
Britannica Classics: Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, part 1Editor and anthologist Clifton Fadiman introducing dramatized scenes from Dickens's Great Expectations, establishing the setting, characters, shape, and themes of this classic novel.
That first sentence, and the description of Manly Night that follows — a roster of carefully curated men gathering for a weekly dinner and black-and-white movie, complete with a special toast and other ritual flourishes — subverts the expectations established by previous installments in the Hef canon.
One of the maxims of past nomination campaigns is that a candidate should expect to receive a bounce in the polls after winning a major primary or caucus — particularly if he or she beat the expectations established by the polls and the news media while doing so.
Creating clear guidelines, setting expectations, establishing measures, then following up is intellectual and emotional work.
Ask that difficult employee if the results he or she has produced align with the scope of work, roles, responsibilities and expectations established.
In the case of Incongruous Non-Conjunctions, a character, incongruous with the prior expectations established by the sequence, is added to the scene.
