While growth declined steadily with each passing quarter, China did not land with a thud as many predicted.
Three defeats in their opening four games left Leinster near the foot of the table but as many predicted, they pulled out a big performance against their Irish rivals.
Nor is the bold Mortier course driving off private sponsors, as many pessimists predicted.
Just as many analysts predicted following the two companies' failure to secure any spectrum during last year's FCC auction, both DirecTV and DISH-parent EchoStar have signed agreements with Craig McCaw's Clearwire to provide qualifying customers with high-speed wireless internet service (and by qualifying customers, we mean anyone who lives within a Clearwire coverage zone).
The matchup wasn't one many predicted, as Wisconsin was the region's eighth seed and Purdue was No. 6.
The Roe decision did not prompt "abortion on demand, " as many opponents of the procedure had predicted it would.
Moreover, these polls were taken before reports from Kosovo spread the impression that the bombing had intensified the very Serbian onslaught on the Kosovars that it was intended to block (just as many, mainly Tory, backbenchers predicted it would).
Perhaps with those words ringing in their ears, Scotland were far from the easy prey many had predicted they would be as they started the game with all guns blazing.
This set a new record for the company, but it was well below the expectations of several analysts, who had predicted that Apple would sell as many as 10 million units during the three-day period.
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Polls predicted more than 40, perhaps as many as 50 seats in the Knesset of 120 members.
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As you undoubtedly could have predicted, the case is back in the courts, again, and many now see it as a landmark test for contract law.
Ten times as many jets were being absorbed by the fireball as were predicted by calculations.
Many have predicted the eventual demise of physical books, as e-book readers and e-book demand soars.
Obviously, as has been said by your administration many times, nobody could have predicted that all this was going to happen.
They predicted that the furloughs would delay or cancel flights for as many as one out of every three airline passengers across the country.
The movie has proved a huge hit for Disney even though many analysts predicted that a cartoon with a cranky old man as the lead would never live up to Pixar's previous successes.
With major automakers announcing their Chinese sales for November, deliveries of Japanese automakers such as Toyota Motors and Honda Motors were down as expected, but the rate of decline was less than what many had predicted.
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Nobody bats 1, 000, of course--not even the master, and many of the things Verne predicted have failed to appear, such as the movable 10-square-mile island built by a group of millionaires in Propeller Island (1895): Home to a large city, it moved around the Pacific Ocean on electric power.
While Maradona remained a lively source of fascination on the touchlines, his heir apparent, and the man predicted by many to stamp his authority on this World Cup as his iconic coach did in Mexico in 1986, Barcelona's Fifa World Player of the Year Messi, was a magnetic focal point on the pitch.
And many were hedged in ways that went wrong when different tranches failed to move as predicted.
Many prognosticators (including me) predicted a significant drop for the Bombers this year as age and injury engulfed the roster.
As was widely predicted, the ending of the Net Book Agreement in 1995 hastened the end of many small, independent bookstores.
Protesters predicted that the community centre would cause traffic problems, but the As-Salaam Trust said many users would walk to the facility.
From the day the Jets made the move to bring Tebow in to compete with Sanchez, many fans and media predicted it was only a matter of time before the former Florida star stepped in as the starting quarterback.
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