This surprised many people.

The win came as a surprise to many.

Syrian Shakeeb Al Jabri, who monitored Syria TV for reactions on the Arab League vote,writes LeShaque Caller on Addounia TV All 23 million Syrians resent the Arab League

And so, the local governor decided to come down hard.

Their reviews were very negative.

The findings were negative.

Then he said, I have negative thoughts.

The results of those comparisons were negative.

The fall of the Tunisian regime had deep domestic roots, but the timing caught outsiders, including the US government, by surprise.

The question, she reports on www.opendemocracy.net, seemed to take him by surprise, and he did not support the idea.

The outcome was a major step backward.

In fact, it has not been.

It had negative echoes highlighted in the world press.

Striking early in the morning during a holiday, the earthquake caught many by surprise. Hundreds of aftershocks of varying intensity also followed the main quake.

Impacts were found to be negative in general.

Abuse of buyer's power could occur through extraction of rents from suppliers, adopting house brand or local labels competing with suppliers' products or extending unfair contracts, for example in the case of franchising.

Volatile stock market, getting negative feedback that's also immediate.

This can be either positive or negative.

Not all Jewish depictions of Muhammad were negative.

This might consequently have had negative connotations for the population.

These clearly are negative trends, events and factors.

The bacterial outer membrane is found in gram negative bacteria.

Indeed, the ongoing fallout is likely to remain very negative.

Likewise, Peretz, a rabble rousing but effective trade unionist, surprised all when he won the Labor Party s leadership primary and then chose the defense portfolio over the treasury.

This move came as a surprise to most observers for two reasons Samir Geagea was a candidate for the presidency himself Samir Geagea and Michel Aoun were on opposing sides during the Lebanese Civil War (1975 1990)

It's not negative it's positive. These are investments that pay for themselves.

Yet it has also produced powerful emotional responses, both positive and negative.

Negative consequences, such as isolation and resistance to ideas, occur when knowledge sharing is impeded.

The overall picture is mixed, with both positive and negative developments.

The illegal exploitation of Somali forests has had a tremendous negative environmental impact.

War and militarism have profound adverse consequences on women and children.

The passivity of the international community allowed the fundamental rights of the Saharans to be violated on a daily basis.

Some members felt that the proliferation of such clauses was a significant negative phenomenon.

From that point on, policing of the protests became utterly passive.

The longer run impact is thus different and much less negative.

Its youth are less conformist and more demanding, less passive and more pluralistic.

But generally those images tend to be more about the negative side of the conflict there.

Each heuristic assigns a (positive or negative) score to the sentence.

It was released on 1 June 2007, and received negative reviews from critics.

The deterioration of the situation along Burundi's borders would certainly have a negative impact on stability in the country.

MADRID Twenty five years ago, at a summit in Rejkjavik, Iceland, US President Ronald Reagan stunned the world and his Soviet counterpart, Mikhail Gorbachev, by proposing global and comprehensive elimination of all nuclear weapons.

Both can have negative consequences.

In fact, the experimental releases revealed no detectable adverse effects of any kind.

But this should not obscure the overall diplomatic picture for Israel, which remains essentially negative.

So integration was hedged by realism in case things went wrong.