• We stood in our bare feet, wobbling slightly, goose-pimpled, still breathing out clouds of expectation like frost-breath.

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  • Living in Silicon Valley, I know of at least one couple that is stock piling water, food, bullets, and scouting out wilderness property in expectation of the Judgement Day.

    FORBES: Malone's musings

  • From how the Like function is being used on the Facebook platform it is clear that it is out of sync with users intuitive expectation of how the function works.

    FORBES: Facebook Graph Search Runs On Likes That Advertisers Have Already Paid For

  • Recall that, with the expectation of getting locked out, the NFLPA had to decertify before the lock out was imposed so that they would be able to more expeditiously address the collective negotiations with owners in court.

    FORBES: NFL Lockout Ruling Foreshadows Eventual Defeat for Owners

  • It has sold out online, there is a sense of expectation and wonder in the air, but for Microsoft the Surface with Windows RT could upset all the goodwill being generated around the launch Windows 8 and the extended ecosystem at the end of the month.

    FORBES: Microsoft Has A Problem With The Public's Expectation Of The Surface

  • As I pointed out this time last year, increasing expectation of life is, in general terms, good news for us as individuals.

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  • We assumed there would be an abundance of oysters, but even if the destination turned out to be mundane, the envelope and the complete freedom from expectation added a level of adventure and excitement to the trip.

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  • "There is a sense of resigned expectation on the island because no one really knows how Cuba is going to get out of this hole, " Eusebio Mujal-Leon, a Cuban-born professor now based in Washington, told Reuters news agency.

    BBC: Castro lashes out at EU

  • In expectation of this, she kept an eye out for them: William in one of his gray suits, with his polished bald head, sitting in his Audi.

    NEWYORKER: Shauntrelle

  • Details are still fluid on precisely what such a connector would look like and do, but the expectation is that it'll be built out of copper wire, will be flatter and thinner than Thunderbolt's rotund construction, and will be able to channel power as well as data through to devices up to 10 feet (3m) away.

    ENGADGET: PCI Express cables could take us to 32Gbps speeds by 2013

  • The expectation is that she will be out by the end of the week.

    BBC: US Democrats fight on to the end

  • The club also announced that it had signed a new eight-year sponsorship deal for its training kit, having bought out the last two years of DHL's existing contract in the expectation of striking a better deal.

    BBC: Manchester United profits rise

  • It had been delayed, as you mentioned right at the beginning, and it was - there was a great deal of expectation, a great deal of curiosity to figure out what the Republicans were going to say and how they were going to address Hispanic voters.

    NPR: Republicans Reach Out to Latinos in Univision Debate

  • With Cyprus and the other Eurozone wrecks looking for any path out of their morass, the gold market may well be reflecting an expectation not that the Euro states will liquidate their gold holdings, but that they will post them as collateral which can have a similar effect on the market.

    FORBES: Gold Inches Up As Goldbugs Seek Reasons For Historic Rout

  • But when the expectation and narrative is all negative we risk leaving ourselves out of the upside.

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  • But he insisted the UK was on target to meet the expectation - set out in its renewable "roadmap" - of the scale of on-shore wind's contribution to UK energy by 2020.

    BBC: Ed Davey

  • But the judge ruled that Mr. Harris had "no reasonable expectation of privacy for tweets, " comparing the posting to screaming out of a window.

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  • However, their in-depth product and company knowledge is unnerving and their expectation of free stuff before buying can rule a vendor in or out of a deal.

    FORBES: Six Ways to Bust the Social Media Hype

  • It's not really that hard, and it's worth figuring out before the privilege of free interaction is taken away from us - along with any expectation of privacy.

    CNN: Will your Internet provider be spying on you?

  • Combine this finicky expectation of loss with a kind of arrogance ("They make toys out there in Silicon Valley, " Olsen famously said) and you have the makings of a great fall.

    FORBES: DEC's Final Demise

  • But brokerage firms are able to lend out shares from clients who were allocated stock in the IPO on the expectation that most of those shares would still be there when the time came to deliver them to the short seller.

    WSJ: Some Facebook Underwriters Helped Short Sellers

  • England were awarded a penalty close in and Tonga were retreating in expectation of a kick at goal when Wilkinson suddenly fired a high ball out to the right and Sackey collected brilliantly and just touched down short of the dead ball line.

    CNN: England battle into the last eight

  • That said, the Bank of England's current expectation that inflation will fall and stay low may turn out to be right.

    BBC: Would euro solution be costly for Treasury?

  • After downing a few glasses of red wine, he stepped out onto the stage and into the glaring lights, a row of his clients staring up at him in expectation.

    FORBES: Leadership

  • The expectation of the 2001 Congress was that government, with the benefit of knowing how things turned out over the ten years following initial passage, would make wise decisions as to whether or not the cuts were still judicious in light of the current circumstances.

    FORBES: Does Anyone Still Remember Why We Have The Bush Tax Cuts?

  • Ignorant of the burden of expectation placed upon him, Stefan allows, indeed almost wills, himself to be trapped into reading out loud before a gathering of his mother's intellectual friends some poetry that he claims to have written himself.

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