Sentence examples for the prevailing expectation from inspiring English sources

The prevailing expectation is that the Indians will soon strike a punitive blow, perhaps against the militants' training camps in the Pakistan-controlled area of the disputed state.

The supreme court move took legal experts by surprise, as the prevailing expectation was that the justices would simply delay making a decision, rather than turn the appeals away.

The number of violent crimes in the United States dropped significantly last year, to what appeared to be the lowest rate in nearly 40 years, a development that was considered puzzling partly because it ran counter to the prevailing expectation that crime would increase during a recession.

Adding to the problem is the prevailing expectation amongst Saudi youth that they should accept nothing less than a comfortable job in the civil service.

The commissioner conceded that appealing for development funding was difficult at a time of enduring global financial crisis, but said he hoped the EU would heed "the prevailing expectations of European citizens when it comes to European development solidarity".

However, the fathers' position in families was challenged if they were unable to provide financially for their families and failed to meet the prevailing expectations of fatherhood and masculinity.

There is a prevailing expectation in today's student body that their university education should make them "work-ready".

God help the profession!" Welcome to the perfect storm of WiFi university classrooms, an insatiable appetite for digital media, shortened attention spans, and a prevailing expectation that everyone can multitask well.

To a large extent, the outcome of this emotional metamorphosis depends on the prevailing cultural expectations and the extent to which the adolescent's reality matches these norms.

Against prevailing expectations, the 124I PET/CT salivary gland dosimetry yielded a significant increase of the absorbed dose per activity of 20%to30%0% for the lemon-juice stimulation group compared with the non-stimulation group.

Transgender is often used to refer to people who "do not conform to prevailing expectations about gender" by presenting and living genders that were not assigned to them at birth or by presenting and living genders in ways that may not be readily intelligible in terms of more traditional conceptions of gender.