Grave expectations The great and good will be at Westminster Abbey, beside Charles Dickens' grave, to mark the day of his birth – 7 February 1812.
As Susan leans forward to push the canoe off, her ankles chapped with the cold, her face long and grave and bursting with expectation, it's too much for Miriam, and she has to look away to where the paddles flash in the pale depleted sunlight and the canoe cuts back and forth across the black surface like the blades of her pinking shears.
But now the faithful — liberals, for the most part — seemed to be suffering a grave case of disappointed expectations.
The council said it was a "grave breach" of residents' expectations.
The undeniable reality is that the current state of affairs cannot continue indefinitely without the expectation of potentially grave economic consequences.
"The CCG's decision to go ahead without these promises being fulfilled is a grave breach of our residents' legitimate expectations".
But in setting forth that view in a 1993 case, the Supreme Court observed, "An agency's decision to ignore Congressional expectations may expose it to grave political consequences".
And judging from their pouts when they're told they can't have it all for peanuts, it's clear we've done them a grave disservice in teaching them to manage their expectations.
While in Victorian times they were years of grave serenity, that is not the case today, when the expectation of life is greater.
This does a grave disservice to the public because it creates a false expectation that it is the responsibility of the building sector to protect people against future acts of war -- a job that belongs to the federal government.
The bank had already said on Wednesday it was on track to reopen the funds by the end of August, so Friday's news brought little cheer and plenty of expectation for when the funds return from the grave.
