We are in one of the toughest conferences so it's not like we were expected to win all of them. And there are a lot of teams right in the same area, so it's not that bad.

The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

I would be less than honest if I said we expected to do that.

When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.

For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.

The thaw is set to start at seven tonight and temperatures are expected to rise so if they've got the forecast right, we are laughing.

It's slowed less quickly than expected because local governments have been able to push through a lot of projects.

The storm had not hit yet, but we had expected to come back after it went through,

My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of 'Les Miserables,' in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not - and was not interested in - telling a lie.

This kind of volatility is to be expected in markets with supply inelasticity,