Sentence examples for grim expectations from inspiring English sources

Such grim expectations played a significant role in the campaigns, with no candidate offering an easy fix.

Grim expectations about the future are becoming self-fulfilling prophesies, as nervous companies cancel investments and households defer purchases.

While many of the aspirations Georgians, Abkhazians and South Ossetians are divergent, as described by Oksana Antonenko ("Grim expectations," Views, Aug. 14), there are some hopeful signs in their relationships.

And now that the grand jury's decision has arrived in the form of a smirking white prosecutor, all of the agony of that wait has culminated in nothing more than the sum of our grim expectations, to ignite cynicism and an old rage.

He figures earnings numbers to meet (modest to grim) expectations, with a few positive surprises possible.

Those grim expectations, along with daily hunger, continue to drive the massive exodus out of Venezuela.

Many expressed a kind of grim expectation that their blocks would be among the last ones to have power restored.

(Last year, when I gave in to the temptation, I got one entirely obvious prediction right, of course -- the surge, if you'll pardon the phrase, of Titanic coverage around the disaster's April centenary. But I got one grim expectation utterly wrong, thankfully... that Nelson Mandela would likely die in 2012).

6 Chope developed pneumonia and, despite the grim expectation that death was imminent, he survived.

But the reality of Afghanistan exceeds even the grimmest expectations.

The company has already issued a grim outlook for it 2Q2014 earnings, which are far below analysts' expectations.