reasonable expectation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreasonableandexpectation
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reasonable
adjective
uk/ˈriː.zən.ə.bəl/us/ˈriː.zən.ə.bəl/
based on or using good judgment and therefore 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 ofreasonableandexpectationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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An important point relates to the meaning of the phrase "the target'sreasonableexpectation" of truthfulness.
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The expectation to subsist through the use of one's natural assets is therefore areasonableexpectation.
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A standard ofreasonableexpectationis obviously a standard of evaluation, and it is the only thing that distinguishes omission from simple nonaction.
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It had been areasonableexpectationand a realistic goal.
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In the one case, we have an epistemic sense of "reasonableexpectation"; in the other, we have a moral or practical-reason sense.
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First, the idea ofreasonableexpectationis context-relative and it is precisely the context for expectations that is under discussion here.
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The notion of "reasonableexpectation" is discussed in the section below. 17.
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Will you hazard these evils without a fair andreasonableexpectationof some solid benefits?
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No evidence for thisreasonableexpectationwas for thcoming in our results.
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What is counteracted by these conditions is the norm: thereasonableexpectationbecomes unreasonable in the face of impossibility.
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A "reasonableexpectation" can refer to what one has good grounds to think will be done or to what one has good grounds to think ought to be done.
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This desire for the socialisation of their children is areasonableexpectationof nursery, since many children are isolated and without the company of their peers at home.
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The notion admits of epistemic and moral readings, and while ordinary usage may conflate these, clarifying the distinction is important for any analysis ofreasonableexpectation.
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Recall, in any case, that no owner has areasonableexpectationinterest in being able to avoid fulfilling her responsibilities to others.
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Ex ante, that was areasonableexpectation.
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Certain undertakings had been entered into along with courses of action and there was thereasonableexpectationthat those would continue.
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We are therefore legislating to strip away the anomalies that so often blight the proper andreasonableexpectationof occupying leaseholders.
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Is that a hope or areasonableexpectation?
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Let us assume the case of a man who, in his old colliery company, had areasonableexpectationof an increment of £100 a year.
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