They expected controversy – as protest artists, they sought it – but they did not expect to go to jail.
Chen said he expected controversy surrounding how cobalt is mined in Congo to ripple far beyond Huayou Cobalt.
The expected controversy ensued, though not entirely predictably: while the Sons of the Confederacy "went ballistic," Sims says, the protests came also from HK Edgerton, an African American defender of the Confederate flag (or "flagger").
Making a political statement at the Oscars podium appears to have come back into fashion, after Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar-acceptance speech exhorting action over climate change led a string of wide-ranging statements at the 2016 ceremony – even if the expected controversy over Hollywood diversity was more muted than had been anticipated.
With all that in mind, I expected controversy.
The territory's Education Department, however, expects controversy to develop.
The problem is that people expect controversy with me, and they haven't got it really".
He expects controversy and criticism, and he has had more than his share.
Ms. Buettner acknowledged that "we expect controversy with this," but she added, "We are not promoting drug use".
I expect controversy!" wrote UC Berkeley Nobel laureate Saul Perlmutter, who garnered the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the accelerating expansion of the universe.
When the American Psychiatric Association unveils a proposed new version of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the bible of psychiatric diagnoses, it expects controversy.
