Did the Best Buy people live up to the expectations of CSR activists?
Ultimately, James failed to live up to the expectations that he set.
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Nearly a third of all CEOs who were fired last year left because they didn't live up to the expectations of increasingly demanding--and impatient--shareholders and boards.
Huntsman is certainly more of a realist than many others in the field, but as Daniel Larison has pointed out, Huntsman is not going to live up to the expectations of non-interventionists.
Previous City boss Mark Hughes paid the price for failing to live up to the expectations of the club's Middle Eastern owners when he was sacked in December, and replaced by Mancini.
It even inserted itself as a moral authority: remember club chairman Billy Payne scolding a scandalized Tiger Woods for failing to "live up to the expectations of the role model we saw for our children"?
But will the game live up to the massive expectations?
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However, such meetings have failed to live up to expectations in the past, so the scope for disappointment is high.
But time and time again the NHS has failed to live up to expectations - at least in the way the health service interacts with patients and shares information (a much stronger case can be made for its use of technology in areas of medicine, such as robotic surgery).
We couldn't really put that through its paces, so we'll have to wait to find out if it can live up to the understandably high expectations.
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In succeeding parts of this series, more situations and lessons will explain further why Barack Obama has failed to live up to the enormous leadership expectations created by his campaign rhetoric and rousing speeches.
Now they are snapping up copies of "A Memory of Light" to see if the climax can live up to decades of expectations.
The risk that fourth quarter and 2013 earnings will not live up to current expectations is not in the market.
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Little Englanders are off-target when they blame foreign imports for the failure of English sportsmen to live up to the English public's high expectations in international competition.
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Easdaq initially touted itself as just that, but it has failed to live up to expectations: its listings pale beside the 165 on Euro.
Drogba produced a rare moment of brilliance in a game that failed to live up to expectations to complete a cup Double for the Blues.
Northug, 24, won three gold medals at last year's World Championships but failed to live up to expectations in his first three events at the Games.
"Just as in 2012, Chinese growth is failing to live up to the market's high expectations, " said Rebecca O'Keeffe, head of investment at Interactive Investor.
And if the 2006 World Cup does not live up to expectations, a bigger commercial prize lies only two years down the road, at the Olympic Games in Beijing .
Instead, we need to sharpen our serenity, cut through the guilt and the expectations and the perfection and accept when we just can't live up to our own or others' expectations of perfection.
Even if shale gas does not live up to expectations in Europe, the continent is already benefiting from it: as America imports less gas than expected, that helps bolster supplies and reduce prices for Europeans.
Despite strong sales and earnings growth, Apple shares are down 18.9% this year, thanks largely to a dip in January after Jobs introduced the MacBook Air, a slick, ultra-light laptop that couldn't live up the expectations set by the previous year's introduction of the iPhone (to be fair, how could anything live up to that?).
If the funds didn't live up to expectations, those gratuities were taken away, Galvin said.
Large numbers of fans had complained that the finale to the popular saga did not live up expectations.
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Imagine our disappointment then, when upon receiving our Lumia 920 review units, the shooter failed to live up to our lofty expectations.
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However, the rumor mill is saying the Galaxy S4 smartphone will not live up to expectations.
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The rest of the Bond games over the years have failed to live up to those lofty expectations.
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But the decade that followed did not live up to expectations.
With such impressive numbers, Wave 4 of the Skylanders figurines have high expectations to live up to.
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With immense pressure on Chukwu and NFA officials to earn their passage to the knockout stages of the Nations Cup, Mohammed did not rule out the dissolution of the NFA board should they fail to live up to expectations in Tunisia.
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