Sentence examples for stoke expectations from inspiring English sources

(NBC tried to stoke expectations with promos of Mr. Gervais, giggling mischievously).

He said to be likely to stoke expectations for a third round of quantitative easing, though he may not disclose the timing of the Fed's possible action.

Ilya Spivak, currency strategist at Daily FX, said: All eyes are on the fourth-quarter UK GDP release.... as a second consecutive period of above-trend growth threatens to stoke expectations that the Bank of England will accelerate the move toward interest rate hikes in the months ahead.

That $13.4 billion stock swap has stoked expectations of more combinations in the telecommunications equipment sector.

Stoking expectations was Suneet Singh Tuli, the charismatic C.E.O. of the small London-based company that won the bid.

But because the Obama cult has stoked expectations among its devotees to such unprecedented heights, he is especially likely to disappoint.

But on this occasion, Rouhani is stoking expectations with every passing day, pledging to present nothing less than a new Iran on the world stage.

The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, stoked expectations for progress when he flew to Frankfurt on Wednesday for a brief meeting with Mrs. Merkel as his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, was giving birth to a daughter in Paris.

Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, told a meeting of central bankers at Jackson Hole recently that another round of quantitative easing would help the jobs market; the data stoked expectations of such a move by the Fed.

LCD Soundsystem leader James Murphy's role as co-producer stokes expectations of existential-disco work-outs, but they're mostly answered only by "Reflektor" and "We Exist", where a warm "Black is Black" groove and chilly lyrics chafe: it's froideur on the dance floor.

A1 Securing the Homeland AIRPORT SECURITY -- After stoking expectations that the takeover of airport security would lead to better educated and more qualified screeners, the Department of Transportation decided not to insist that screeners be high school graduates, dismaying advocates of tighter airport security.