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

BBC: Peter Thompson's speech

Given advance hype for the movie as extravagant as its violence, I doubt that audience members, whatever their race or age, bought tickets with the expectation of seeing some historically faithful saga of antebellum life, and neither did I.

CNN: Why 'Django Unchained' stirs race debate

It's taken some adjustment to get used to life in the public sector where criticism is abundant and there is little expectation of privacy.

WSJ: Gloria Guevara, Mexico's Secretary of Tourism

On the other hand, many Tory life peers are old, having been given their titles as retirement perks rather than in the expectation of regular attendance.

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He was a police informer, appropriately troubled by the complicated ethics of betraying his friends, a man who lived in the full expectation that these transgressions would cost him his life.

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