But, as my mother used to say, we cannot be expected to live in picturesque poverty.
As far as Israel's media are concerned, Arabs cannot be expected to act like responsible citizens.
Although there is something to this, the pound's strength cannot be expected to vanish so easily.
Quang is a lifelong communist who cannot be expected to provide sincere testimony.
This country cannot be expected to function properly if Congress continues to simply extend and patch the tax code.
The Palestinian policemen fighting today alongside Palestinian gunmen cannot be expected to turn their brethren over to Israel tomorrow.
Meanwhile, huge current-account surpluses cannot be expected to offset capital outflows for ever.
Mr Putin cannot be expected to wipe the political slate clean at once.
Meanwhile, higher education minister Alan Johnson is expected to say taxpayers cannot be expected to pay the entire higher-education bill.
Second, America and a few countries cannot be expected to bear the burden of the fiscal and interest rate stimulus alone.
LinkedIn has grown rapidly over the past couple of years, but it cannot be expected to maintain the same pace going forward.
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He cannot be expected to give it up just because the Iranians use it as a new path for building nuclear bombs.
Dependent as they are on Arab oil, these potential allies cannot be expected to vote with Israel in the UN General Assembly.
The U.S. government cannot be expected to endorse fully and readily, if at all and if ever, an Israeli decision to strike first.
So, as desirable as the actual demilitarization of south Syria might be, Israel cannot be expected to rely heavily on a demilitarization accord.
Israel cannot be expected to cure the Arabs of this illness.
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But when the opposite is the case, the ban cannot be expected to work against countries whose governments have a history of acting in bad faith.
In so doing, Gottemoeller legitimized Iran's claim that it cannot be expected to suspend its quest to acquire nuclear weapons as long as Israel possesses them.
The EU, with its member-nations' own anti-Jewish baggage, a burgeoning and radicalized Muslim minority, and an addiction to Arab oil cannot be expected to stand with Israel.
Alon opined that the IDF cannot be expected to bring security to the Israeli public if the government isn't involved in a peace process with the PLO.
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Basically, the President cannot be expected to pledge to roll back government in any way whatsoever tonight, a stance that helps account for the state of our union.
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The problem is that China cannot be expected to alter its reactive stance as long as it sees itself as an outsider to an international system built by the West.
But Rumsfeld's prosecutors say the U.S. cannot be expected to provide justice after Congress' recent passage of a law that grants American officials retroactive immunity from prosecution for war crimes.
The officials reply that Rome was not built in a day, and they cannot be expected to clean up Houston overnight: after all, it took 30 years to get that way.
Vogts cannot be expected to fashion the proverbial silk purse from a sow's ear, but he has some way to go, tactically, to prove that he is the man to take Scotland forward.
At each stage the individual has the option of stepping off the conveyor, but cannot be expected to do so unless society finds a way of providing exit points and lending a helping hand.
If Israel offers the store to Abbas, then the likes of Cameron, Merkel and Sarkozy will not only recognize "Palestine" at the UN, (because after all, they cannot be expected to be more pro-Israel than the Israeli government that just surrendered), they will recognize Hamas.
His idea of removing the Galilee from sovereign Israel and attaching it to a Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza is based on the Left's bigoted assumption that Israeli Arabs cannot be expected to be loyal to the country or to act as law abiding citizens.
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