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Rebelling against his family's expectations, he found work as a waiter at the Radisson Blu in Delhi and lived in a slum behind the hotel.

He said organisers had got it right with the decision for seven young athletes to light the cauldron, but told the Sunday Telegraph it was other people's expectations he found difficult.

But instead of reading "Hamlet" or "Great Expectations," he found himself puzzling over abstruse literary theory whose essential tenets he took literally.

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His school's graduation rate had jumped impressively the previous year, and he knew he was expected to perform even better for the 2017 graduating class — an expectation he found unrealistic.

Contrary to his expectations, he also found that women cry more in colder climates, such as the Scandinavian countries and Iceland.

In 2006, he was expected to be a leader, but he found the expectation burdensome, playing poorly as the Americans exited in the first round.

But what he found exceeded expectations.

Initially struggling for money (Moe's wife and son had to move in with her parents), he found the expectations of fatherhood to be the ideal motivator.

Initially struggling for money (Moe's wife and son had to move in with her parents), he found the expectations of fatherhood to be the ideal motivator.

Given Bartley's previous work, Lieberson stated, he might have made an ideal interpreter of Erhard, but he found this expectation "disappointed [although] the book is nevertheless instructive".

Only one day earlier, a New York Times journalist accompanying him on a train journey to Southampton quoted a man who had met Brown at the station there as saying that, contrary to expectations, he had not found him at all shifty or ill-at-ease.

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