The final score was 51-40, ending the VooDoo's season at 9-7, a disappointing result for a team widely expected to challenge for the ArenaBowl championship.

While it was expected that the smaller, regional IBA franchises would not survive against the stronger CBA squads, the Wizards performed well with a regular season record of 26-14, and a single-elimination 116-109 win over the Rockford Lightning in the CBA's championship game.

All the players agreed this championship was more special than their first two because they were expected to win those ones, while the 2009 edition was a surprise finalist, that most experts thought wouldn't advance out of the quarterfinals.

The breed advanced through the steps of the new breed program and is expected to complete the requirements for championship status in 2012 ( personal communication, January 2012, T. I. C. A.

The Association alleged that " the championship took longer than expected " so it was suddenly finished.

Despite what many expected, the championship would hardly be considered boring with the McLaren onslaught peaking with the drivers fighting in several feuds.

She retired after falling victim to the team's ranking order ; as the repairs were expected to take too long, Gumpert ordered championship leader Blomqvist's Quattro to be fixed by using Mouton's sister car as spares.

Many expected them to win all three stage championship categories ( Individual, Junior and Team ).

Many media analysts expected Edwards to challenge Johnson for the championship.

Burton was expected to make a run for the championship but a poor season lead Burton to miss the Chase, the first time since 2005.

It was not the expected championship, but it was certainly better than it could have been.

There are some who believe that a " curse " was place on the Cardinals as a result of the debacle, and that in an era where the NFL has implemented measures to ensure competitive parity, the curse is the reason for the failure of the Cardinals to win as many championships as would be expected with a team of such longevity ( the Cardinals ' only other championship came in 1947 ).

Berringer was a quarterback on Nebraska's 1994 and 1995 national championship teams who died in a plane crash in April 1996, just two days before the 1996 NFL Draft where he was expected to be an early / middle round pick.

He was highly expected to take over Rossi's shoes and to win the 250cc world championship.

Having won the Japanese second-tier championship a record 5 times ( including two JSL Second Divisions as Toshiba, and one former JFL title ), they are expected to contend for promotion once again.

Truex was expected to wage a spirited battle with Kyle Busch, who was racing his first full season since the Viceroy Rule had taken away his Truck Series ride at Roush Racing when he was 16, for the points championship ; Busch was driving the # 5 Lowe's Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports, the team that had won the series points championship in 2003 with Brian Vickers driving.

The team is so futile, Ted insanely made a promise of a Walt Disney World trip if it won the league championship and expected not to have to follow through with the promise.

Additionally, CRM systems face the challenge of producing viable financial profits, with a 2002 study suggesting that less than half of CRM projects are expected to provide a significant return on investment.

This division of labor was understood and expected, and women typically felt unable to challenge their position or male superiors.

To prepare for the expected defense challenge that North's testimony had been used, the prosecution team had-before North's congressional testimony had been given-listed and isolated all its evidence ; further, the individual members of the prosecution team had isolated themselves from news reports and discussion of North's testimony.

Laws of this type later used racially neutral language to survive legal challenge, but were expected to be enforced against blacks rather than whites.

PCHA president Frank Patrick had not filed a challenge, because he had expected Emmett Quinn of the NHA to make all of the arrangements in his role as hockey commissioner, whereas the trustees thought they were being deliberately ignored.

In his first defense of the title, he faced Roberto Elizondo, who had lasted 7 rounds with Argüello in a previous world title challenge and was expected to give Rosario a tough challenge.

A leftist populist, he was preparing to challenge FDR's reelection in 1936 in alliance with radio's influential Catholic priest Charles Coughlin, or run for president in 1940 when Franklin Roosevelt was expected to retire.

The process through design and construction is expected to take several years with funding being the major challenge.

A serious challenge to their operation was not expected and many men believed that their work would lead to the ending of the war.

This poses a special challenge for the musicians because rendering this music does not involve just playing or singing the correct musical notes ; the musicians are expected to understand what was conveyed by the composer in various languages, and sing musical phrases that act to create the effect that was intended by the composer in his / her composition.

Decoherence represents a challenge for the practical realization of quantum computers, since such machines are expected to rely heavily on the undisturbed evolution of quantum coherences.

After winning the Queen's Club Championships for the fourth time, Becker was widely expected to mount a serious challenge for the Wimbledon title in 1996, but his bid ended abruptly when he damaged his right wrist during a third-round match against Neville Godwin and was forced to withdraw.

He admired vagabonds who refused to live as others expected them to live, anarchists who challenge authority and so on.

Comedies were expected to keep a consistently light tone and not challenge the viewer by introducing more serious content.

In an interview published in Autosport three days before the rally started, Toivonen himself had not expected to challenge for the win:

In 1997, the Hawkeyes were expected to again challenge for the Big Ten title.

Qarase retained his own constituency with some 93 percent of the vote, after an expected challenge from Adi Koila Nailatikau, his predecessor as Lau M. P.

Howe faced a serious challenge in his riding, but was expected to make speeches elsewhere as a major Liberal leader.

It was expected that there would be a legal challenge to the appointments.

Although the Predators lost in six games to the Detroit Red Wings in the first round of the playoffs, they surprised many by giving the Red Wings more of a challenge than expected.

The touring New Zealanders were not expected to provide much of a challenge to the in-form Australians during the three-match Test series starting in November.

He had been expected to challenge the world record holder and three-time World champion, Noureddine Morceli.

Robertson was not expected to seriously challenge Crittenden, but following the withdrawals of the other candidates, Archibald Dixon entered the race.

But he never expected to do that.

He expected Concetta's thin hand to reach down to grasp the boy, and her shrill, impetuous voice to sound against the rotundity of his disfigured flesh that was never sure of hearing anything.

Though such works as Coming of Age in Samoa and The Chrysanthemum and the Sword remain popular with the American public, Mead and Benedict never had the impact on the discipline of anthropology that some expected.

Across several centuries of testing, the predictions of astrology have never been more accurate than that expected by chance alone.

Some contend that the amendment devastated American science, since ARPA / DARPA was a major funding source for basic science projects of the time ; the National Science Foundation never made up the difference as expected.

Mary had never been expected to hold the throne, at least not since Edward was born.

Prior to the accident he had captained England 22 times, and, being only 27, was expected to lead them in the 1966 World Cup ; but he was never again selected for the national team.

Before his election as Pope, he served as Bishop of Caere, which made his election controversial, because, at this stage of history, a bishop was expected never to leave office to move to another see.

Nicolosi's " A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality " clarifies that Haldeman's interpretation of his work, cited above, is inaccurate ; Nicolosi explains that some males are temperamentally more sensitive and esthetically oriented and can never be expected to act in a way that is stereotypically masculine.

However, the chemistry that everyone expected with winger Brett Hull never developed, and coach Mike Keenan publicly criticized him.

# Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.

He was Duke of Anjou and probably never expected to be raised to a rank higher than that.

Though Pope as a Catholic might have been expected to have supported the Jacobites because of his religious and political affiliations, according to Maynard Mack, " where Pope himself stood on these matters can probably never be confidently known ".

Even though he had spent the last decades of his life securing Maria Theresa's inheritance, Charles always expected a son and never prepared his daughter for her future role as sovereign.

Because their energy is strongly beamed, the gamma rays emitted by most bursts are expected to miss the Earth and never be detected.

Following the resignation of the Chancellor Prince Metternich during the Revolutions of 1848, the young Archduke, who it was widely expected would soon succeed his uncle on the throne, was appointed Governor of Bohemia on 6 April, but never took up the post.

The company is never clearly defined in Road Runner cartoons but appears to be a conglomerate which produces every product type imaginable, no matter how elaborate or extravagant-none of which ever work as desired or expected.

[...] I must not however conceal from Your Excellency, that the Gentry, well disposed, and heartily desirous as they are, to serve the Crown, and to serve it with Zeal, when formed into regular Corps, do not relish commanding a bare Militia, they never were used to that Service under the French Government, ( and perhaps for good Reasons ) besides the sudden Dismission of the Canadian Regiment raised in 1764, without Gratuity or Recompence to Offices, who engaged in our Service almost immediately after the Cession of the Country, of taking any Notice of them since, tho ' they all expected half pay, is still uppermost in their Thoughts, and not likely to encourage their engaging a second Time in the same Way ; as to the Habitants or Peasantry, ever since the Civil Authority has been introduced into the Province, the Government of it has hung so loose, and retained so little Power, they have in a Manner emancipated themselves, and it will require Time, and discreet Management likewise, to recall them to their ancient Habits of Obedience and Discipline ; considering all the new Ideas they have been acquiring for these ten years past, can it be thought they will be pleased at being suddenly, and without Preparation embodied into a Militia, and marched from their Families, Lands, and Habitations to remote Provinces, and all the Horrors of War, which they have already experienced ; It would give appearance of Truth to the Language of our Sons of Sedition, at this very Moment busily employed instilling into their Minds, that the Act was passed merely to serve the present Purposes of Government, and in the full Intention of ruling over them with all the Despotism of their ancient Masters.

Some of these approaches are more purely stylistic and have minor effects on the actual story-telling ; some are profound and involve the point of view of characters whom the reader never expected to get to know so well.

The disadvantage in this example is that this strategy will never exploit non-optimal strategies of the opponent, so the expected outcome of this strategy versus any strategy will always be equal to the minimal expected outcome.

He never became good at writing, and he never acquired much of the knowledge of fine culture that was expected from an artist.

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