Skipper, the ESPN executive vice president, said that he did not expect ESPN to become a major cellphone player in the widest market, but that he anticipated finding takers among avid sports fans.

"We anticipate finding him in the near future," he said.

The area is in very inhospitable territory, among the most difficult that the troops in the American-led Afghan coalition have tackled so far, but officials anticipate finding important information, Colonel Pease said.

Throwing good money after bad, Professor Hawkins and others had fallen for his plausible tale a second time, and once again found themselves with shares of useless stock in a company that had drilled for oil where no geologist would ever anticipate finding any.

In 1820 the explorer Charles Throsby informed the Governor of New South Wales that he anticipated finding "a considerable river of salt water (except at very wet seasons), called by the natives Mur-rum-big-gee".

I therefore determined to push down the north bank of the Mattapony far enough to enable me to send these impediments directly to West Point, where I anticipated finding some of our gunboats and transports, that could carry all to the North.

I don't anticipate finding one externally for quite some time.

With masterly patience, he prepares and waits in place to experience the ambience that he anticipates finding at a chosen site.