• When it was done, the boy ate the whole thing, and did not share a morsel, which was exactly as it was supposed to be.

    NEWYORKER: A Tiny Feast

  • Supplement guru Gary Null claims he became severely ill after ingesting his own supplement that contained 1, 000 times as much vitamin D as it was supposed to.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Meanwhile, in Washington, U.S. President Barack Obama's special representative to Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, said that the election process had worked as it was supposed to.

    CNN: Karzai rival prefers opposition to coalition

  • It was very nice because he wanted me to do it and I got so involved in it that I did twice as many drawings as I was supposed to.

    BBC: Profile: Quentin Blake

  • Just as the US was supposed to act as a guarantor for the settlement blocs, so, from Livni's perspective, Fatah forces and an international force comprised of European and perhaps US military units were supposed to protect Israel from Gaza in the aftermath of withdrawal from the area.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Livni's loyalties

  • Each of the schemes announced over the past few days - whether for infrastructure, for housing and for "credit easing" for small businesses - in their different ways respond to the same reality: that super-loose monetary policy, for one reason or another, has not kickstarted private sector activity as it was supposed to.

    BBC: Osborne, Balls and the OECD: Where they agree

  • Ian Mill QC said as manager he was supposed to look after the boxer's best interests but as promoter he had to "secure all due profit and reward" for his company.

    BBC: Boxer Calzaghe 'was not misled'

  • The Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act, better known as FinReg, was supposed to reign in ill-gotten gains and regulate the trillion dollar derivatives market starting 11 months ago.

    FORBES: Faith in FinReg Low, Says Grant Thornton Poll

  • The Lamb had tried to eat the sand, and had cried so hard when he found that it was not, as he had supposed, brown sugar, that he was now tired out, and was lying asleep in a warm fat bunch in the middle of the half-finished castle.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Five Children and It'

  • The people who had got off stepped, somewhat dazed, into the street, looking around as if unsure what was supposed to happen next.

    NEWYORKER: Shauntrelle

  • INDIA'S emergence as an economic powerhouse was supposed to take another big step forward this year with the implementation of a new regime for protecting patents.

    ECONOMIST: A crucial new intellectual-property regime disappoints

  • That the fellow, known as Mr. K, was supposed to represent a former company executive was way too subtle.

    FORBES: Speed Bump

  • As for McCain, he was supposed to be solidifying his funding base after he locked up the GOP nomination, but at least through March, that wasn't really happening.

    NPR: Funding Is Feast, Famine for Obama, Clinton

  • These were that the trial was run correctly, doses of the drug were given as they were supposed to have been, and there was no contamination during manufacturing.

    ECONOMIST: Why a drug trial went so badly wrong

  • Walter Stachnik, the former SEC inspector general who was supposed to act as the agency's ombudsman and who was a central character in the SEC's own Aguirre investigation, quit his job the day the Senate released the report.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Alan Ayckbourn wrote for Hark at Barker under the name of Peter Caulfield because he was employed as a BBC radio drama producer at the time and was not supposed to work elsewhere.

    BBC: The Two Ronnies script

  • Evan Almighty, staring Steve Carell as a modern-day Noah, was supposed to be a high-grossing follow-up to megahit Bruce Almighty.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Meanwhile, Japan, a large developed country, which was not supposed to fare as well as emerging country markets, closed up 1.0% for the week.

    FORBES: Market Meets New Wall of Worry Or More Likely Just Brief Profit-Taking On Way To Higher Highs

  • Obviously it is not as completely awful as it might have been but this was supposed to be a radical reform of the CAP and we are not seeing that.

    BBC: Euro MPs reject radical CAP farm subsidy reforms

  • This is the way it was supposed to work: As solar panel prices fell, solar power would become more affordable, and people everywhere would cover their roofs with glittering panels.

    FORBES: Solar On Fire In California

  • The format for Round Three was supposed to be the same as that of the First Debate.

    FORBES: Who Won The Third Presidential Debate? The Giants

  • Most towns and cities have estates as bad as the slums from which council housing was originally supposed to rescue people.

    ECONOMIST: Some councils are getting rid of their entire housing stock

  • The mobile Web was originally supposed to be just as free.

    WSJ: Design Freedom Eludes Mobile Web

  • If you simply saved money after 1971, you stood to get killed as the dollar lost value against things it was supposed to be able to procure in the future.

    FORBES: Inequality Is The Child Of Fiat Money

  • "It always did the actresses in, because I was the one who was supposed to have this reputation as a freedom fighter ... and I got two movies, " Lincoln told NPR's Roy Hurst in a 2003 interview.

    NPR: Remembering Jazz Singer And Activist Abbey Lincoln

  • Tyler claims his ex, Kathleen Tallarico, was supposed to give him the photos as part of their divorce agreement in 1987.

    CNN: Showbuzz

  • When I was brought up as a Catholic boy, you were supposed to pray to St Jude for hopeless causes, so I've started doing that.

    BBC: News Online

  • Admirers will be glad to find proof, here and elsewhere in this book, that Davies was as modest and engaging a man as they had supposed.

    ECONOMIST: Robertson Davies

  • Close links to the local people originally seemed a good thing, since the army was supposed to fall back on guerrilla warfare as its second line of defence against an invasion.

    ECONOMIST: Indonesia

  • Indeed Poland was supposed to peg its currency to the Euro as a pre-condition for joining something that it (very wisely) has refrained from actually doing.

    FORBES: How Austerity Is Failing in Eastern Europe In One Chart

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