Sentences with phrase «widespread expectations of»

The consequence of this neglect is that widespread expectations of the future evolution of climate have no validity.

Any student of the Græco - Roman world at the beginning of our era who tries to penetrate beneath the surface of the political, economic and military history of the period and discern what was going on in the minds of men, becomes aware of a widespread expectation of a turn for the better in human affairs, even the dawn of a golden age, after the violent convulsions which had disturbed society for a century or more.

There was a widespread expectation of the coming of a Wonder Child through whom the difficulties of the present would be erased.

Research by Thomson Reuters found widespread expectation of higher legal costs, regulatory fines and compensation claims.

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As we stated first thing this morning, far from widespread predictions and expectations of a stock market apocalypse, what a Trump victory really means is strength for both the economy, and the stock market.

In 1999, we are no longer reduced to «guessing» whether he was inspired or speaking only as a man: • adultery has lost its moral significance and become commonplace; • chastity has become a symbol of unhealthy development; • contraception in expectation of fornication is taught to children in the schools; • respect between the sexes has been replaced by mutual exploitation and / or competition; • marriage has lost its sacramental nature and its enduring promise; • statistically, divorce is common, teenage pregnancy is widespread, single parent and serially parented families increase, sexual disease is epidemic, intercourse is recreational, abortion is ubiquitous.

Longley sketches the history of the question of artificial contraception through the 1960s and the widespread expectation that there would be a change in the Church's teaching concerning the immorality of its use.

Certainly there were, but they began to be more widespread and outrageous quite soon after 1965, when tinkering and traducing went on, in the imagined expectation of spiritual benefits galore.

One is the belief in progress.4 The expectation that life gets better for most people as time passes has been widespread since the 18th century.5 A basic source of the confidence in progress is the Biblical idea that the Kingdom of God will come at the end of time.

«Anti-corruption agencies in Nigeria generally have not met widespread expectations mainly because of lack of political will of those in government to fight grand corruption; absence of an over-all national anti-graft strategy; inadequate legal framework and resources and / or lack of full and effective implementation of new initiatives; limited independence and public trust; lack of an enabling climate and necessary know - how, and lack of basic ethical values.

Not only is that more appealing to modern sensibilities, it's justified within its 19th century setting because of a widespread zombie uprising in England that has changed expectations for how proper young ladies should conduct themselves.

Even if our nation's schools are not beset by a widespread shortage of qualified teachers and teachers are paid salaries comparable to other professionals, there are still those who believe that teachers» pay is too low, that their salaries are simply not commensurate with our expectations of a good education for our children.

The widespread expectation prior to Thursday's BESE meeting was that the state board planned to decide on a new formula that increases the amount of money provided for special education while reducing the amount allocated for gifted students in Orleans Parish.

«Despite their potential to make our roads safer, in the long run, consumers have high expectations for safety... Our results show that any incident involving an autonomous vehicle is likely to shake consumer trust, which is a critical component to the widespread acceptance of autonomous vehicles.»

In a six - week start - up campaign, this winning formula produced tangible results that exceeded my loftiest expectations: reviews in large, target - markets; radio interview spots with national media outlets; a front - page feature story in a major newspaper; the sale of one bylined article and widespread distribution of another.

There is a widespread reader expectation that I provide lots of very substantive and well - written free information of the kind I put in my books.

Brian from Bookbaby simply said «When production becomes more cost - effective and adoption more widespread, as well as increased expectations for more functionality in ebooks, new formats and all of their associated functionality will be increasingly adopted.

In a six - week start - up campaign, this winning formula produced tangible results that exceeded my loftiest expectations: reviews in large, target - markets; radio interview spots with national media outlets; a front - page feature story in a major newspaper; the sale of one bylined article and widespread distribution of another.And these are just the highlights.

Yet there are widespread fears that the Liberals» plan, which is being announced after the House of Commons has risen and only days before Christmas, will fall far short of expectations and leave many veterans in the cold.

What's different today is not just the heightened economic inequality we see within the US, but also the widespread de rigueur expectation — reinforced by curators, academics, and, indeed, critics — that serious artists offer a kind of protest, working to subvert the very social and economic power structures their patrons uphold.

Had the program been implemented as a fixed - price sale of allowances at the original price expectation level — with revenue allocated according the same formula that was adopted for allowance allocation — the program would have been no less politically viable and the regulatory incentive might have motivated widespread deployment of the best available control technologies, resulting in up to 20,000 fewer premature deaths annually.

The (previously untested) widespread expectation was that regulators would have less tolerance for poison pills adopted in the face of hostile bids with the mandated longer bid period.

One relative who gifted bitcoin stated of the cryptocurrency that «The concept is good,» adding his expectation that its acceptance will become widespread though «many governments may not like it now.»