Baswedan says there is growing concern that President Obama cannot live up to high expectations Indonesians have set for him.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

"Rome" and "Big Love." Poul says his challenge was to balance the expectations audiences have for this genre.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

But they may have to lower their expectations, take on multiple duties, and work for less pay until the economy fully recovers.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

"I used to have a lot of expectations about what that meant and what it was for.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

And,government officials and factory bosses, especially those who run international companies, have to address these rising expectations.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Initial expectations for Copenhagen have been scaled back to try to reach political agreement on a framework, with a detailed, binding treaty to follow.

VOA: standard.2009.12.06

She understands the contradiction many young immigrants have to contend with as they try balancing their family's traditional expectations for them with what they want for themselves.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

World leaders have already tried to temper expectations, warning that the current crisis did not come about overnight and will not be resolved in such short order either.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

"Some positive signals have appeared in the last weeks, including the evolution of the financial markets, improvement in business expectations and some real indicators, such as export data in Asia,pointing, all of them, to a stabilization of the economy in the second part of this year and a gradual recovering in 2010,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.04