It is no surprise that the public sector, where productivity is low and fiscal constraints soft, typically has the greatest union concentration.

But what's really amazing is that the cells, when we electrically stimulate them, like with a pacemaker, that they beat so much more.

It's incredible that we actually lived through all that.

It's no surprise that his health has grown worse since his return.

But in American politics, surprisingly, there has been progress.

It is no surprise that the US has not won their support.

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Not surprisingly, foreign investors no longer favor Putin s Russia.

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So it is no great surprise that Hamas rejected the Quartet s conditions.

Surprisingly, buildings account for about one third of global energy use.

He had put it together, combined it into something more interesting than the original pieces and then he'd put it into this software, which I think his son developed, originally, and produces this wonderful presentation.

But it is no surprise that coming to terms with history can be damnably difficult.

Not surprisingly, the economy began to overheat.

Sen, not surprisingly, is a trenchant critic of the Asian values school.

In the current crisis, popular anger is no surprise directed against bankers.

So it should be no surprise that most of these wounded girls and women keep silent.

Not surprisingly, the proposal has received wide support throughout the United Nations.

And I think that if the marketing were more aspirational, if we could focus as a community on how far we've come and how amazing it would be to eradicate this disease, we could put polio fatigue and polio behind us.

Little wonder that academics across the political spectrum have expressed considerable skepticism.

Not surprisingly, Iraq s child workers suffer from a wide array of serious health problems.

So, it's wonderful. We evolved this very protective, wonderful covering of melanin.

And amazingly, that evolution sustains the trajectory that biological evolution had established toward greater complexity.

Not surprisingly, the atmosphere at this year s World Economic Forum was grim.

Little wonder that academics across the political spectrum have expressed considerable skepticism.

Small wonder that when the sub prime market blew up, these markets also froze.

Perhaps not surprisingly, acts of exclusion, segregation, and violence often go unpunished.

It is accordingly not surprising that in the area of health, the patent system, with all of its distortions, has failed in so many ways.

It's amazing when you meet a head of state, and you say, What is your most precious natural resource?

Surprisingly, prices rebounded in some places in 2009.

So it is small surprise that he left office with more than 75 popular support.

It is therefore surprising that Medvedev should be hailed by so many in the West as a liberal.

It is no surprise that corrupt regimes routinely clamp down on the press, trade unions, and on professional associations.

Most of the 80 test subjects complied without complaint.

There are, no surprise, commonalities between China and the eurozone.

It is not surprising, then, that ten years later, there has been no fundamental reform.

His followers, unsurprisingly, cling to his parting promise to return to Liberia.

The teachers are as diverse as the student body, and the amazing thing is that volunteers are popping up.

It is fascinating to note how our discussions in different forums become increasingly intertwined.

It comes as no surprise, then, to read in theArab News that Bashir s warrant reeks of hypocrisy. Where, indeed, are the arrest warrants for Bush and Cheney?

So it is no surprise that an opportunist and charlatan like Berlusconi continues to get a hearing.

Perhaps surprising for modern politicians, Morales took his words seriously.

America s inability to inspire the peoples of the Middle East, all ruled by US backed autocracies, is not exactly stunning news.

No surprise, then, that many EU citizens refuse, or at least hesitate, to embrace the European cause.

It's a surprise that it has humanity, but also man made, future, alien associations.