unreasonable expectation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunreasonableandexpectation
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unreasonable
adjective
uk/ʌnˈriː.zən.ə.bəl/us/ʌnˈriː.zən.ə.bəl/
not fair ...
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expectation
noun
uk/ˌek.spekˈteɪ.ʃən/us/ˌek.spekˈteɪ.ʃən/
the feeling that good things are going to happen in ...
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(Definition ofunreasonableandexpectationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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However, this strict accuracy criterion may be anunreasonableexpectationfor children of this age.
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I think that is not anunreasonableexpectation.
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This, in my submission, is not anunreasonableexpectation.
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That would be a bonus and it is not anunreasonableexpectationto envisage such an increase.
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I allocated an hour and a half for the first debate in the notunreasonableexpectationthat it might be interrupted at the beginning.
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That is not anunreasonableexpectationin any way.
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I still do not think that that is anunreasonableexpectationfor a measure of this importance.
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This amendment would create a whollyunreasonableexpectationon the carrier—an expectation which is ultimately untestable.
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Surely that is not anunreasonableexpectation?
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Members of the reserves will have arranged their financial commitments, such as mortgage repayments, in the notunreasonableexpectationthat their earnings would be fairly constant.
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Well, no, it probably is not, but not because silence is anunreasonableexpectationbut because there is a perception that a person's position is legally ambiguous.
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That is not anunreasonableexpectation.
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That is anunreasonableexpectation.
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I should have thought that it was quite anunreasonableexpectationand that loyalty and expediency together would always play an important part in coming to a decision.
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The essence of social anxiety has been said to be an irrational orunreasonableexpectationof negative evaluation by others.
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Unreasonable expectations for improvement was the most common underlying factor.
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They knew that all they had to do was bide their time, because the electorates in almost all those countries had unreasonable expectations.
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Sometimes the unreasonable expectations of the public are due to ignorance.
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To make the issue depend on the effect produced on a single individual, who might have most unreasonable expectations, would be quite unjustifiable.
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But they had developed perhaps unreasonable expectations that lucrative university positions would come to them.
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