Sentence examples for expectations to pick from inspiring English sources

Elsewhere, it was probably more complicated, with unionists coalescing around the Tories and left-wing voters attracted to Labour, who defied all expectations to pick up seven Scottish seats.

Now, however, inflation expectations have started to pick up sharply, which is putting the credibility of central bankers to the test.

Its monthly housing survey showed expectations that sales will rise have turned positive once again with 10% more chartered surveyors expecting sales to pick up soon.

Risers included Irish cement firm CRH, which surged on expectations of a lucrative deal to pick up assets jettisoned from the Holcim-Lafarge merger.

Baidu's stock price jumped yesterday too, after investment firm Kaufman Brothers upgraded shares from hold to buy and raised its price target to $690 on expectations for the Chinese company to pick up the market share in their home country that Google will probably lose.

It's hard to pick an expectation.

In this case, one tends to pick the significant effects that confirm expectations and ignore those that do not.

The expectation is being created that they will be there to pick up the pieces".

Everyone else monitored their cycles and "started to pick up a pattern, so we could manage expectations".

It may seem reasonable to pick up three or four new skills to add to your repertoire, but that's an expectation the mind can't execute.

To pick just one immigrant difficulty: many Latinas are burdened by "marianismo" -- the flip side of machismo and a cultural expectation that women be docile, suffering victims.