The educational system is validly criticized as being broken and dysfunctional.

It is an ignitor of great expectations.

So what are those expectations?

Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on The dashing rocks thy sea sick weary bark!

Some of those hopes were fulfilled.

Banking on the IMF

So far, these hopes have been dashed.

Don't we all harbor such hopes?

The hopes are gone, but I have certainties now.

RS That's one of the idealistic hopes.

But even skeptics nourish many hopes.

Bo certainly did not disappoint.

The eve of a new year. New hopes and new dreams.

But don't hold your breath.

These hopes have proven illusory.

But, in each case, those hopes were dashed.

Hence, their expectations were met.

Canada will do its part to respond to those expectations.

A lot of people had a lot of hopes and expectations for him.

They're packed with drama! With twisted hopes and crooked dreams.

So far, remarkably little. But I'm living in hopes.

Back then, Afghanistan s people held great hopes for an immediately wonderful future.

The world has a lot riding on America s election.

There are two hopes for avoiding this disastrous outcome.

However, since 2000, hopes have been gradually fading.

The debt burden is crushing hopes for the relaunching of its development.

Those expectations that what we are going to learn, we will learn with pleasure.

It moves your organs around, it enhances respiration, it is an ignitor of great expectations.

These are the facts on the ground that doom Palestinian hopes for a sovereign Palestinian state no less than Israeli hopes for a wholly Jewish state.

The prospects of a stable future look increasingly dim.

In Davos this year, great hopes have given way to great apprehensions.

Our discussion on the question of Palestine this year leaves us with mixed feelings of hope and an awareness of the challenges that lie ahead.

But the onset of opportunities and the fulfilment of hopes must be based on mutual trust.

Nevertheless, the recent World Summit gave cause for hope.

On this historic occasion, my plea is that we return to those hopes and ideals.

We cannot disappoint those hopes or return to the past.

Because almost everything all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure

I am as weary of these spectral grandchildren as I am of false hope.

The best example is US President Barack Obama, on whom so many hopes rested probably too many for any one leader.

This expectation is an inevitable consequence of Turkey s geography and history.

But as hopes of integration with the West wane, so a feeling of exclusion is growing.

Expectations and confidence in democracy, the market economy, and the larger European project have suffered as well.

Hopes were high that he would deliver progress against the extraordinary poverty.

Our planet believed in the achievement of the ideals of peace, solidarity and brotherhood among people and nations.

As one participant put it, this view is the result of the politics of expectation the expectations of this summit were much higher and much more wide ranging than what is contained in the draft outcome document.