Coral cover across the Great Barrier Reef has experienced its largest annual decline since records began, a report from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) has found. AIMS surveyed the health of 124 coral reefs between August 2024 and May 2025, finding that 48% of reefs underwent a decline in percentage coral cover.
Great teaching is not merely a predictable, observable, externally measurable fact as the social sciences would like it to be. So how should we define it?
The Great Reset The COVID-19 coronavirus crisis has wrought economic disruption on a monumental scale, contributing to a dangerous and volatile global upheaval – politically, socially and geopolitically – while raising deep concerns about the environment and the extending reach of technology into our lives.
The World Economic Forum's Klaus Schwab joins HRH The Prince of Wales to launch the Great Reset, to seek a greener, smarter, fairer world after COVID-19.
She could never measure up to her mother's expectations. The company's results are in line with stock market expectations. The success of our campaign has exceeded our expectations. The concert was brilliant - it lived up to all our expectations.
If you have great expectations, you think something good will come your way, but if keep your expectations low, you won't risk being disappointed. Expectation can also describe something that is supposed to happen, like a teacher whose expectation is that everyone comes to class prepared.
Happiness is usually proportional to our level of acceptance and inversely proportional to our expectations. Expectations are present in our day to day life, stalking us with their load of illusions and pretensions.