Sentence examples for expected a positive from inspiring English sources

On 45% of those occasions when service users expected a positive outcome (including expectations of no change), they experienced a negative outcome.

"I expected a positive decision.

Charles H. Moore, the committee's executive director, said he expected a positive response from members.

"No one expected a positive response," one senior American official involved in the issue said Saturday.

Sam McDonagh., the head of Airbnb in Australia, said he expected a positive response after similar arrangements succeeded in New York, San Diego and London.

The former Barcelona and Bayern Munich manager went on to say he also expected a positive response from Yaya Touré after the midfielder was not even included among the substitutes.

Subsequently, administration officials said that in a telephone conversation on Wednesday, President Hu Jintao of China had told President Bush he expected a positive response from Pyongyang, the North Korea capital.

In the regional factory report, the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank said its business activity index tumbled to minus 0.4 in September, from 18.5 in August; Wall Street economists had expected a positive 14.8.

Looking at the first quarter report from July (detailing a better performance in mail activities then initially expected, a positive performance in European parcels from GLS, but challenging conditions in UK parcels with competitive forces strong) evidence from sector peers suggests that conditions significantly worsened through August and September.

Bayer said that the acquisition would incur one-time charges of some 300 million euros and reduce earnings per share by 0.25 euro in 2005, but that it expected a positive effect on results in 2006 and cost savings of 100 million euros to 120 million euros over the next three years.

Consequently, we expected a positive association between CAPR and NII.