Sentence examples for prevailing expectation from inspiring English sources

There is a prevailing expectation in today's student body that their university education should make them "work-ready".

Given this prevailing expectation, what do you do if you have no desire to broaden your responsibilities?

The prevailing expectation is that the Indians will soon strike a punitive blow, perhaps against the militants' training camps in the Pakistan-controlled area of the disputed state.

The supreme court move took legal experts by surprise, as the prevailing expectation was that the justices would simply delay making a decision, rather than turn the appeals away.

Russia's announcement that it will not pay its foreign debts this year (front page, Nov. 5) left me astonished that the prevailing expectation has been that the successor state of the Soviet Union would be able to move directly into a capitalist economy.

The number of violent crimes in the United States dropped significantly last year, to what appeared to be the lowest rate in nearly 40 years, a development that was considered puzzling partly because it ran counter to the prevailing expectation that crime would increase during a recession.

However, contrary to prevailing expectations, on the day of the referendum, British voters decided it was time for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union.

Against prevailing expectations, the 124I PET/CT salivary gland dosimetry yielded a significant increase of the absorbed dose per activity of 20%to30%0% for the lemon-juice stimulation group compared with the non-stimulation group.

However, the fathers' position in families was challenged if they were unable to provide financially for their families and failed to meet the prevailing expectations of fatherhood and masculinity.

A more recent study reported that prevailing expectations for technical knowledge and challenge, where students have a collective identity of nursing as a hospital-centred profession, were rapidly extinguished during an RACF placement and replaced by a sense of disengagement associated with their perception of routinized patterns of care provision [ 17].

The commissioner conceded that appealing for development funding was difficult at a time of enduring global financial crisis, but said he hoped the EU would heed "the prevailing expectations of European citizens when it comes to European development solidarity".