This firm expectation may yet be confounded by the traditional enemy, the weather.
Students cannot rest on their laurels in the firm expectation of a sheaf of A-grades but take even more care to get them.
Mr. Zwirner, the dealer, said that he hopes to represent Mr. Wheeler permanently, but that he will not allow himself any firm expectation of doing so until the show is over and Mr. Wheeler is happy.
The crowd might have lost interest in this underrated stock, so dully and unerringly recommended by theologians and priests down the centuries, but Sir John bought it up on the firm expectation of stellar future earnings.
When the burghers of the ultra-respectable London suburb of Bromley offered H G Wells – its most illustrious 19th-century scion after Charles Darwin – the freedom of the town, the firm expectation was that he would graciously accept.
Some of that criticism will be intemperate but the firm expectation is Cook will be at Lord's in July for the first Test against South Africa as an experienced opening batsman who will be glancing over at his captain at the toss to see whether he should put on his pads.
They had already fired the sporting director, Fredi Bobic, earlier in the campaign and now have to recruit somebody who would be willing to take over at a pretty big club with no real team and no firm expectation to avoid the drop.
Creating a rule that only allows unhealthy foods on occasional weekends, or perhaps during movies sets a firm expectation that junk foods are limited to specific circumstances that you have approved.
