Sentence examples for scaled back expectations from inspiring English sources
Investors scaled back expectations for how far and how fast interest rates would be cut.
On the AOL side, the growth was fine, and on the Time Warner side, they had already scaled back expectations.
[C5.] Earnings Rise 21% at MetLife MetLife reported a 21percentt rise in second-quarter profit, but scaled back expectations for the rest of the year.
However, the collapse of telecommunications companies and corporate spending has halted the building boom of such networks and scaled back expectations for components makers.
Ishaq Siddiqi, market strategist at ETX Capital, said: Heading into this [Federal Reserve] meeting, investors this week have scaled back expectations of an immediate unwinding of stimulus by the Fed, hopeful that the patchy run of data from the US economy will prevent a reduction in asset purchases in the near term.
But, like Sheppard writes, although these leaks from the meeting don't sound too great in terms of climate, "Kerry had already scaled back expectations on that front".
FitzGerald initially said that LeBron would bring in $500m to the city, before scaling back expectations.
Some are scaling back expectations for what they once called "crippling sanctions".
As Europe's phone companies grapple with mountains of debt and falling stock valuations, France Telecom said today that it was scaling back expectations from a sale of shares in its mobile phone unit, Orange, planned for early next year.
With so much political tumult roiling Republicans and more conservatives pushing to cut off financing for the health care law, both White House officials and Congressional Republicans are scaling back expectations that Senate-White House talks will produce the kind of grand bargain on the deficit that will win over House Republicans.
The alienation of the kingdom smacks of carelessness from an Obama administration now intent on scaling back expectations in the Middle East even as it declares a nuclear deal with Iran and an Israeli-Palestinian peace to be President Obama's foreign policy priorities.
