People here are aware that it has to bear this freight of expectations, hopes, ideals, memory, nostalgia, from all sorts of different quarters and that's quite a lot for this island to cope with".
At the same time, though, such legendary status can also be a burden, weighing down what was once fresh and shocking with a heavy freight of expectation and received opinion.
I quickly forgot all about it as my mind skittered off in another direction: the realization that the holidays were barreling toward me like a freight train of impossible expectations.
Describing how he learnt of his son's illness, Mr Cameron once said: "It hits you like a freight train because all the expectations you have for your child change immediately".
It never came up to expectations as a means of freighting or transportation, and the railroads soon made it obsolete.
Here, any expectations of coupling are limited to freight cars connecting.
This study develops and validates a port sustainable services decision model to investigate customers' port services expectations based on the views of companies and freight services providers located in major cities nearby Ningbo port.
The sequence that follows, set in the darkness and silence surrounding a small freight depot, is breathtaking in its swiftness and bold defiance of audience expectations.
A key reason for the expectation of flat earnings is that Apple will air freight the machines from East Asia to the United States during the current quarter to try to meet the sizable backlog of orders.
UTI International, a global freight forwarder, tumbled 20.5%, or $6.17, to $23.89, after reporting earnings significantly below investors' expectations.
