Sentence examples for expectations to win from inspiring English sources

"It's not like I had expectations to win the event," he said.

Barroso's comments showed how the thinking has moved in Brussels after the Tories exceeded expectations to win an overall majority.

Who supports the tea-party movement?ON SEPTEMBER 14th tea-party conservatives struck another blow to the Republican establishment when Christine O'Donnell defied expectations to win the Republican Delaware Senate primary, beating Mike Castle, a nine-term Republican congressman.

Mr. Dallek said Mr. Obama seems to be borrowing a page from President Truman, who in 1948 campaigned against a "do-nothing Congress" and defied expectations to win re-election.

Then he looked up and smiled and a roar went up as the crowd recognised Amir Khan, the 17-year-old boxer from Bolton who surpassed all expectations to win a silver medal.

Who could argue with a giddy feel-good comedy (based on a true story, no less) about a Thai volleyball team composed mostly of gay men, transvestites and transsexuals that defies expectations to win the national championships?

So now that there's that expectation to win, that I may be one of the favorites, but I personally don't feel I have the same pressure on me as before.

There is such an expectation to win games.

"There's an expectation to win that the players have to deal with," he said.

He understands the expectation to win again will be huge and he is confident the Black Stars will thrive on it.

Australian Freeman coped with the huge weight of expectation to win the 400m at Sydney 2000, and Ennis will carry British hopes in the 2012 heptathlon.