Word: expectancies
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...closest we'll probably get to the truth is an E.U.-led investigation that took more than a year to figure out who fired the first shot. That was Georgia, the report concluded, while also judging that Russia violated international law during the onslaught that followed. But don't expect to see any of that nuance in the films now battling it out to rewrite history. (See a brief history of World War II movies...
...also believes that science fiction can train students to better understand the nuances of what they read, whatever the genre. “Part of learning to read attentively is learning to pick up on those signals a text gives out about what you should expect, so you can see when that text and its language violate those expectations,” Burt says. Originality, in other words, is only perceptible if the reader knows what conventions have been broken...
...don’t like the phrase that we have nothing to lose because we expect to compete and do well against them,” McNally said...
...This is the first year we haven’t had a superstar on the team, and we’ve had everyone contributing,” Buesser said. “We don’t expect all the points from one player, or for one player to keep us in the game obstensively...
...This is the first year we haven’t had a superstar on the team, and we’ve had everyone contributing,” Buesser said. “We don’t expect all the points from one player, or for one player to keep us in the game obstensively...