Sentence examples for expectations when it was from inspiring English sources

Despite its operational flexibility and great expectations when it was first conceptualized, the UPFC has not been so far a commercial success.

There were great expectations when it was launched in a blaze of publicity by Tony Blair two years ago.

The initial Hunger Games film, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson, outdid expectations when it was released in March 2012, breaking several box-office records and taking more than $670m£430m0m) at the worldwide box office.

Originally touted as Civilization meets Warcraft, some reviewers felt that the game failed to live up to these expectations when it was released.

The results of the glucose control aspect of the trial defied expectations when it was announced that the intensive glucose control arm was prematurely terminated due to higher mortality associated with assignment to this treatment.

Alexander suggested that instead, ARGs should give players an idea of the type of reward that may be offered, and then can exceed player's expectations when it is completed.

As the 24th pick in the 2007 draft, he came into the league with those back-half-of-the-first-round expectations: When it's past pick 20 your team thinks, "Well, this guy can certainly ball, and he'll maybe become the next, hell, J.R. Smith?

The paperwork and process can take a while and GPs do not wish to raise the patients' or families' expectations when it is likely to be an unsuccessful referral.

"I think that there may have been a little bit more expectation when it was set up that the nurse practitioner would deal with populations that the health authority, as an organization, had chosen as key populations that they felt had gaps in service.

Admitting that the economic landscape and revenue expectations underpinning the original bid had changed hugely since the contract was signed in 2006, he said: "The terms of that [extension] option are not economic because the conditions are so radically far from what peoples' expectations were when it was put in".

Mr. Frey and his team created the car — from approval by top management to the showroom — in just 18 months, and expectations were modest when it was introduced on April 17 , 1964 at the New York World's Fair.