Sentence examples for raised their expectations from inspiring English sources

Investors have raised their expectations on what constitutes good corporate performance.

Investors have raised their expectations for the American economy as the market has climbed this year, said Joe Kinahan, chief derivatives strategist at TD Ameritrade.

The case comes at a time when regulators have sharply raised their expectations for banks' efforts to spot, monitor and report suspicious transactions.

A recent survey by Education Week and Public Agenda, a public opinion research group, found that nearly half of the 600 teachers they polled said that new standards had not raised their expectations of students.

Yahoo's chief executive, Terry Semel, said that while some analysts had raised their expectations for per-share earnings, the company had exceeded its own predictions of its revenue and other measures.

After Lexmark announced its outlook for the quarter on Oct. 10, analysts raised their expectations to an average of 78 cents a share from 64 cents, according to Thomson First Call.

Citizens globally have raised their expectation of government.

After the CPI figures were released, futures markets raised their expectation of an August rise from 60% to 90%.Pretty soon, however, Wall Street had a wholly different view.

The conundrum is that we have been given fewer and fewer such resources, that our workload is ever increasing, that, through political choices, patients have been made to raise their expectations, and expect an always perfect result.

And the principal is persuading teachers to raise their expectations.

The second step is for women to raise their expectations.