Sentence examples for expected and feared from inspiring English sources

That is what his enemies expected and feared.

It was sudden, but not as violent as I'd expected and feared — possibly because we were facing backward and were pushed into our seats rather than thrown forward.

The four Republicans said they expected and feared that Mrs. Clinton was using the Senate race in New York as a steppingstone for a run at the presidency.

But the other intriguing matchup features Kiwanuka, who struggled in pass coverage — as the Giants expected and feared — in his first game since moving to linebacker from defensive end during the off-season.

In an announcement that researchers worldwide both expected and feared, Woo Suk Hwang's last remaining claim to have advanced the promising field of human embryonic stem (ES) cells has been declared fraudulent.

Perceived risk (and subsequent inaction or inadequate government disaster responses) may have been influenced by the fact that impacts from the 2015 2016 El Niño turned out to be less than expected and feared in Peru, which in turn may also have diminished the credibility of subsequent climate information.

"All alike expect and fear a post-war collapse," Alvin Hansen of Harvard University, a leading economist of the time, wrote in 1942.

But it took Steinbrenner only about a minute to sound like the demanding principal owner the Yankees know, expect and fear.

Soon, though, the entire building was rocking widely with a deafening roar, the roar of a building in critical stress, and then I realized in absolute horror that this was the big one, at long last, the one you are taught from childhood to expect and fear, the one that changes history and geography, the one that can kill you.

But the turnout, estimated at about 5,000, was far smaller than had been expected, and fears in Israel that masses of Gaza residents might try to break through the Israeli-built barrier along the border, as they breached the border with Egypt last month, proved unfounded.

Why? Crude oil demand had been lower than expected, and fears of an overbuilding of tankers in Asia have hurt shares.