Sentence examples for scaling back expectations from inspiring English sources

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.

But whatever method lenders use, borrowers should play it safe and stick to the old formula, even if it means scaling back expectations, said Christina directorofe, director of national initiatives at Freddie Mac.

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.

One solution might be to scale back expectations.

But it has sought since to scale back expectations.

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.

The response to Mr. Obama has been so warm that the coordinator for German-American relations in the foreign ministry here, Karsten D. Voigt, sought to scale back expectations.