Nevertheless, many advocates for people with Alzheimer's disease had expected the drug to be approved because there is no other treatment for the disease.

But advocates expect it to give Boston a major boost in the competitive, and lucrative, convention business.

Given these circumstances, some pro-choice advocates expected Roe to be overruled.

Many advocates had expected that the shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999 would transform the politics of gun control.

Environmental advocates had expected the federal government to issue a five-year extension and were pleased that it turned out to be twice as long.

But it is hardly the kind of encouragement arts advocates had expected from this Administration.

But in the end, union came in a way neither the advocates nor the critics expected, and which neither side could avoid.

Economists and advocates for the poor are expecting the Current Population Survey figures to be as high, if not higher.

Few solar advocates expect the investment to pay off quickly, even when softened by tax rebates and other subsidies.

When the euro was being planned, advocates expected the currency to be strong.