Two seasons ago Carlisle were in the Conference, but after successive promotions they have now consolidated their position and despite McDonald's desire to play down expectation, performances like those against Forest show what his team is capable of.
There's every reason to believe that one reason Bush took us to war with Iraq was his desire to perpetuate war psychology combined with his expectation that victory in a splendid little war would be good for his reelection prospects.
In his book "The Three Faces of Desires, " philosopher Tim Schroeder argues that pleasure ("net intrinsic desire-satisfaction") is fundamentally a function of expectation.