Sentence examples for meager expectations from inspiring English sources

One could be forgiven for meager expectations.

He's obviously worth risking a few hours with, and I'm happy to report that he far exceeded my meager expectations.

He called the meager expectations — for a team with an untested quarterback, a fresh offensive system, an overhauled defense, four rookie starters — "comical".

The special-teams coordinator Mike Westhoff coveted Davis, but the Jets would not have taken him so high — 77th over all — if they held meager expectations.

"The question is, how did we get into the situation?" Given North Korea's unreliable history, administration officials said, they had meager expectations that food aid would set the stage for a breakthrough on nuclear negotiations.

That percentage and meager expectation may be good comedy, and the observation may uncomfortably apply to the Democrat incumbent in my district or the Republican in yours, but for reasons elaborated at Kmiec2014.com, this independent intends not to just show up, but to raise up our abilities in service to others.

All he has done is to meet the most meager of our expectations.

Hiromichi Shirakawa, chief economist at UBS Warburg (Japan), said that even a meager increase in expectations for the current quarter could evaporate by the time the next poll is taken.

In the lower leagues, a poisonous combination of high expectations, meager success and astonishingly low pay make players in Germany's 33 standard regional division clubs vulnerable targets for bribery.

With 163,000 new jobs created, July's employment growth topped both analysts' expectations and the meager job gains in May and June.

Oddly, however, our category of diversified holding companies shrank this year, with General Electric notably absent for the first time after a year of poor stock performance and on expectations of relatively meager earnings in 2003.