Sentence examples for lowering of expectations from inspiring English sources

Elroy and Clare's relationship contains remarkable moments of kindness -- not in showy grand scenes but in small gestures, in bitten tongues, in the silent lowering of expectations.

Mr. Coe said that a lack of tangible results in corporate revamping was being seen as a lowering of expectations about the Korean economy.

"It could also be due to a lowering of expectations from life, with older people less likely to put pressure on themselves in the personal and professional spheres".

"This is not a lowering of expectations but an acknowledgment of the fact that poverty does impact on children's educational achievements".

For much of your time in charge your measured and realistic personality, it seems to me, has conspired in the lowering of expectations.

It has been over for a while, the drip, drip effect of a football club in demise, the slow lowering of expectations, the blind ignoring of reality.

But what we won't see is a lowering of the expectations of the police.

Certainly the diminution of religious faith entails no necessary lowering of this expectation.

The economy and the political landscape today are weighed down with the steady lowering of middle-class expectations.

It's such a lowering of ambition and expectation".

Many of the companies have the ability to stay afloat in the lowering tide of expectations or, as one analyst put it, to be "recession-proof".