Sentence examples for expectations of breakthrough from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

While the New York session last month saw the foreign ministers presiding in person, the UK and US in particular do not want to turn up and create an expectation of breakthrough when, as Mr Kerry pointed out, they have not yet seen evidence of change in Iran's substantive position.

Although there has been continual expectation of breakthroughs, there are still no solutions.

The deepening divide between the two nations is likely to limit expectations of a breakthrough.

"There are new unprecedented elements that have raised expectations of a breakthrough.

Before the meeting, the White House chief of staff, John H. Sununu, sought to play down expectations of any breakthrough.

The distance between the two sides was described as very big, and there were scant expectations of a breakthrough next week.

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.

Expectations of any breakthrough became even more muted as no Iranian government, and particularly not this one, can seem to cave to outside pressure.