1.   At the moment Craig Counsell leaped across home plate with the winning run, the burden of unfulfilled expectations fell off the shoulders of Florida Manager Jim Leyland.

2.   All three pitchers will have undergone some type of surgical procedure to cap a season of unfulfilled expectations.

3.   But unfulfilled expectations often precipitate a sharp fall, and the fans often of late have been downright defiant.

4.   Closer to home, hope is the grappling with the personal loss of loved ones, of unfulfilled expectations, of tarnished dreams even in this land of plenty.

5.   Copper prices slipped amid unfulfilled expectations that China would make large copper purchases in the New Year.

6.   Four years ago, the American women were built up as favorites in Barcelona, Spain, only to suffer the consequences of unfulfilled expectations.

7.   He is a man clearly troubled by unfulfilled expectations.

8.   In part, this may be that Russians, weary from a decade of dashed hopes and unfulfilled expectations, long for the boundless optimism of the Gorbachev years.

9.   Islamic radicalism has spread in the Muslim north, in the vacuum left by years of military misrule and the unfulfilled expectations of democracy.

10.   Osborne bears a quiet dignity, and if he suffers from unfulfilled expectations, he suffers in silence.