Sentence examples for expecting instead of from inspiring English sources

What they discover is the opposite of what they had been expecting: instead of romantic, heroic images they are suddenly confronted with the horror that has been inflicted in their name in Chile.

The latest product from music startup Smule isn't what I was expecting — instead of releasing another music-centric app like Ocarina or Magic Piano, it's launching a social video app called Strum.

If you have certain quotas for what you want your employees to produce, let them know what you expect instead of getting angry or disappointed when they aren't meeting your expectations.

Smaller, focused meetings should be expected instead of more jamborees.

Smaller, focused meetings should be expected instead of jamborees that take too much effort and usually produce slight results.

The atomic oxygen density distribution found showed a single peak structure as usually expected instead of a double peak structure in the previous campaign.

If you're new to Verizon after July 7, here's what you can expect instead of a $30-a-month 30-a-monthplan: One of four data plans that range from 75 megabytes of data for $10 to 10 gigabytes for $80 a month.

But the issue proved quite contrary to what those who sent the message expected; instead of bringing Pericles under suspicion and reproach, they raised him into yet greater credit and esteem with the citizens, as a man whom their enemies most hated and feared.

Thames explains that people accept roles that society, family and they themselves expect, instead of living life on their own terms.

In general: the convergence of an integral is expected instead of the approximation property by a sequence of appropriate measures (cf. Definition 14).

He's exactly the opposite of what I'd expected: instead of a brooding, tortured soul, he's a ball of excited energy.