What had once been fun, changed overnight: "Now there was expectation – to fail, to succeed, to come through to the other side".
As a result, business schools launch students into the real world with completely unrealistic expectations, set up to fail.
Nevertheless, because of the location of his community and the expectation for him to fail in that community, his elected officials and the police review authority passively ignored his murder until they faced national scrutiny.
Unfortunately, his hyperbole also burdened OLPC with unrealistically high expectations, thereby condemning it to fail on its own terms, or to seem to have done so.
Until we understand the values and preferences people attach to aspects of how and where care is delivered, any new policy to reorganise acute healthcare services and reduce reliance on ED care will not be responsive to community expectations and is likely to fail.
In losing to lesser teams, the Nets have shown a tendency to fail when expectations rise.
Ellis Hamburger, the Verge's consumer app and vegan diet reviewer, sung its praises, calling it "the best Facebook app ever," although it was hard to fail our expectations considering the company's last app launch was Facebook Poke.
Those who need the most help may be those who decline [ 27], and there has to be a line drawn between giving appropriate support and raising expectations too high by 'failing to fail' [ 28].
I don't often pan, but when I do, I try to show how the music has failed to live up to expectation, or failed to live up to its own ambitions, or however else it has disappointed.
When the expectation to recover failed, the wish to give up grew stronger.
But a plausible path to forcing the jihadists out of Iraq would open up.The trickier question for Mr Obama is what to do if Iraq lives down to expectations, and fails to get a better prime minister or a more inclusive government.
