21.   If officials here seem sensitive about a Disney deal, it is because they have stoked public expectations.

22.   In terms of managing public expectations, however, getting through midnight smoothly has become a central goal.

23.   It altered public expectations that the longest election in more than a century might end this week.

24.   Nevertheless, a major concern of the South Korean government in recent days has been controlling high public expectations over the first meeting between leaders of the divided country.

25.   Now many new, effective therapies for heart disease, cancer and other ailments have raised public expectations.

26.   Ornstein said the bottom line is whether public expectations were met.

27.   Public expectations forced the institutes to re-examine how research was conducted, said Victoria A. Harden, the chief historian at the agency.

28.   Public expectations, drug prices and the number of prescriptions dispensed to the elderly are continually increasing.

29.   Rookie J.D. Drew will hit ahead of McGwire this season, yet the public expectations mount daily.

30.   Sherin loves to use public expectation only to drastically shift gears.