Sentence examples for shrink expectations from inspiring English sources

He's clearly had to shrink expectations to a size far more human than the larger-than-life scale by which he once measured his ambition.

Are theatre companies producing work like this entirely for artistic reasons – or because of shrinking expectations of attendance?

He made his name as a Midwestern bad-boy rocker, but since the 1980s he has been singing about the crushed dreams and shrinking expectations of someone who wonders what happened to the small-town America where he grew up.

As much of Continental Europe confronts shrinking expectations in the euro crisis from Athens to Lisbon and beyond, Britain faces its own bitter hangover from a credit-fueled decade of binge-spending and soaring property values that came to a shuddering halt when the financial crisis of 2008 gave the lie to Tony Blair's triumphant battle cry in 1997: "Things can only get better".

Before long the fantasy was dimmed by shrinking economic expectations and the resentment that they provoked.

"All too often there comes a point at which expectations shrink.

A goal of the Fourth Amendment, Justice Alito emphasized, is to ensure that new forms of technology do not constantly shrink our traditionally expectations of privacy.

Moseley says she is drawing on specific experience working on the buy side of the food industry to help shrink the gap between expectations on both sides via the design of the platform.

Including hidden nodes can reduce associated effect sizes (because the parameters of hidden nodes are not informed by empirical data and shrink to their prior expectations of zero).

That doesn't mean she is shrinking her own expectations.

"My worry is that the overall size of the handset market may be shrinking relative to expectations," he said.