These are just a few of the "lighter" expectations that couples lay on each other as Thanksgiving approaches.
The slower growth in Russia is even more remarkable in light of expectations economists had for the country just a few years ago.
"It is something that has to be considered in the light of expectations about the degree of the participation to be achieved," Mr. Papademos said.
We sit in big, multibalconied rooms, brightly lit, in expectation of magic," Kirstein wrote in "A Ballet Master's Belief," an elegy for Balanchine published the year after his death, in which God and angels and "de-selfed communion" supersede the barre, the formal vocabulary of dance, and even the body.
While not particularly cheap, the typical U.S. stock does not seem obviously overvalued in light of expectations for profit growth, interest rates and inflation.
The cash-strapped British Olympic Association has defended its spending in light of expectations that it will run up a record deficit of £2m this year.
Whenever a new project from Korean visual mastermind Lumpens comes to light, our expectations couldn't be higher, and yet he never seems to disappoint.
All observations are discussed in the light of expectations arising from Fisher's geometric model.
Howard's model enables focussed exploration of the cognitive processes of decision makers and the decision-making process to develop descriptions of how people actually make judgments and decisions; how a decision is made in light of expectations, values, uncertainties, objectives, and anticipated consequences of each possible choice considered.
Investors might also have been disappointed to see that equities trading, asset management and consumer banking were all "a little lighter than expectations," he said.
