It is the semi-final of the European Championship, the opportunity to achieve something no other team has achieved, but the country does not live in hope so much as expectation.
Time and again, I found myself thinking, "What's wrong with these people?" It wasn't the kids' incompetence with money I found depressing, so much as their expectations.
"It is a hope, as much as an expectation, that things will not dramatically change" he said.
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With no new nickel mines starting up until 2006, the surge in prices has been due as much to expectations of supply shortages as to rising demand.
Yet more often than not, they have travelled as much in expectation as in hope.
But in a contest that has long been as much about expectations as about actual results, the attacks on Mr. Kerry by the Dean and Gephardt campaigns were the surest sign yet that both now felt threatened by Mr. Kerry.
WASHINGTON, April 9 - Not since 1947, when the job of secretary of defense was established, has a government position materialized with as much fanfare, expectation and doubt as now surround the director of national intelligence, a post whose contours remain anything but clear.
But as Burger indicated, as much in expectation as in hope, the South Africans are not completely bereft themselves when it comes to the attacking virtues.
In some regions, yields were as much as 12% below expectations, according to Rabobank.
