Sentence examples for modest expectations of from inspiring English sources

Failing to meet the very modest expectations of Cancún would have been fatal.

Such are the modest expectations of a football manager who unfortunately happens to be English.

I HAD modest expectations of Wonder Seafood Restaurant, which is nondescript in appearance, verging on the utilitarian.

But now even the most modest expectations of middle-class life — one that's not founded on a mountain of debt — seem harder and harder to come by.

Young, ambitious accountants who toil away at a Big Four firm may have modest expectations of glory, but they'll be millionaires if they make partner.

In a half-built private-run campus in Patna most students have modest expectations of their future salaries typically $500 a month.

For the uninitiated, this scene on the fringes of Europe contradicts even the most modest expectation of how the continent should look in 2015.

It's a lot to expect of an effort that, according to my sources, Apple itself has fairly modest expectations for out of the gate.

"We have very modest expectations for most of Hasbro's licenses in 2001," Williams says.

The US president's remarks on Sunday night represented a lowering of already modest expectations for the second meeting.

The reaction on Wall Street was muted because of the modest expectations for the trial to succeed.