All very well, but George Osborne has raised great expectations on the Tory benches.
He raised great hopes among its seven million inhabitants, but little has been accomplished.
President Obama raised great hopes in 2009 when he spoke in Cairo about "a new beginning" with the Muslim world.
The entry of Russia into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) raised great hopes, which until now have not resulted in much.
At the time of his appointment, Mr. Aliyev raised great hopes in a populace furious over corruption; a longtime Communist Party figure, he was known for steadfastly refusing bribes and lived, famously, in a modest three-room apartment.
Iraq raised great suspicion because it repeatedly stonewalled and lied to the first U.N. inspection teams in the 1990's and dragged its heels in dealing with Mr. Blix's follow-up team before the war.
The Prism scandal, however, raised great concerns about the privacy of information and a co-founder of Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde, has a solution – a messaging service that encrypts information on both ends.
Thus specimen heterogeneity in either composition or conformation has raised great challenges for high-resolution analysis.
Extensive use of neonicotinoid insecticides has raised great concerns about their ecological risk.
The ballistic metaphor, reminiscent of Paul Ehrlich's 'magic bullet', has raised great expectations.
