So his apparent pragmatism should come as no surprise.

In addition, if Ukraine s President becomes an international pariah, he can only turn to Russia, as is the case of President Aleksandr Lukashenko in Belarus.

Even more surprising, new international norms are being advanced.

Not surprisingly, the proposal was quickly shelved.

Qaddafi s turn to China in his hour of desperation is somewhat surprising.

It is surprising that this has happened under Hu, a cautious and intelligent man.

No surprise, then, that the Democratic Party has now picked up the protectionist baton.

No surprise, then, that they are nostalgic for the past, including Stalin.

Surprisingly, my father gave me the permission, assuming that I would be bored and leave at once.

They will, but in ways that are inconsistent and even surprising.

Viewed from this perspective, the additional protection afforded by the exemption is highly surprising.

Private reactions among senior government officials in the G 8 are surprising. One senior G 8 official told me that the aid promises are all lies anyway.

Given such flawed proceedings, my conviction and prison sentence come as no surprise. But I remain hopeful that we will prevail in the end, when higher courts hear Tempo's appeal.

Given Russia s economic fundamentals, Putin s diminished popularity might appear surprising.

Even more surprisingly, the government, under the pressure of public opinion, has allowedBing Dianto resume publication.

Shockingly, at the time the report was submitted, the Department had no data from any embassy or consular office.

But the spectacularly muddle headed argument nowadays that too much austerity is killing Europe is not surprising.

What was even more appalling was that often the competent authorities did nothing by way of investigating those crimes and punishing the perpetrators.

Surprisingly, the leading countries in terms of positive emotions were all in Latin America, from Paraguay to Nicaragua, according to Quartz.

It is astonishing to note that more than two thirds of the rural workingwomen received income of up to one quarter of a minimum wage in 2003.

That view is backed up by the polls most striking results very widespread rejection of inequality based on race, ethnicity, or sex.

Surprisingly, Kan, who entered politics to dismantle the old system, now has switched to the mandarins side.

This prospect may seem surprising, given that Japan has already lost two decades since its economy s bubble burst in the early 1990 s.

It is surprising, therefore, that forecasters raised their GDP growth forecasts for 2011 significantly on the basis of the tax agreement.

Incredibly, the US is now soaking up roughly two thirds of all global net saving, a situation without historical precedent.

Amazingly, the richest 1 of American households now has a higher net worth than the bottom 90 .

In the United States, probably the most astonishing statistic is a 600 percent increase in autism and autistic spectrum disorders and other learning disabilities.

For me, there's no greater ability than the gift of another human being giving you that feeling to hold them still just for a brief moment in their day and have them surrender to wonder.

What I find fascinating is that we've actually wired our world to share, whether that's our neighborhood, our school, our office, or our Facebook network, and that's creating an economy of what's mine is yours.

This finding is surprising, given the intensified efforts made during 2004 to improve the timeliness of donor reporting, and the reasons are being analyzed.

In reality, it is surprising and sad that, at the dawn of the twenty first century, certain delegations should object to a text that calls on States adequately to protect human life.

And amazingly, the geese who were on the other side of the paddock when I was around Get the hell away from this kid! when I lowered my voice, they all came right up to us.

More surprising was the success of the launch, which makes North Korea the tenth member of the world s Space Club (the ninth member was Iran, which successfully launched its Safir rocket in 2008).

And if you're in this room today, most of us grew up in a world where we had basic civil rights, and amazingly, we still live in a world where some women don't have them.

NEW YORK In a way, the stir aroused by the decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to indict Sudan s President Omar al Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur is a surprise.

Amazingly, and as more proof that humans are social and creative creatures under any circumstances, entertainment and music in particular have been a huge part of keeping up morale during Euromaidan rallies.

Unemployment estimates also are surprisingly misleading a serious problem, considering that, together with GDP indicators, unemployment drives so much economic policy debate.

Surprisingly, Koizumi was almost successful. Japan s primary deficit of 28 trillion in 2002 was reduced to only 6 trillion by 2007.

It was therefore surprising that a few years later, a change had occurred in the authorities' attitude with regard to the confiscation of books for reasons which had been explained, but which were not completely convincing from a legal standpoint.

The US position was truly breathtaking, given that the WTO had already judged that America s cotton subsidies paid to fewer than 25,000 rich farmers were illegal.

This is perhaps unsurprising given the secretive nature of the illegal drug trade, and the Team accepts the expert judgements that the Taliban benefit from drug revenues.

Good social science turns our unexamined intuitions into a map of causal arrows. Sometimes it shows how those intuitions lead to surprising, unanticipated results when extended to their logical conclusions.

The arrests in Ghana, while typical of African bigotry towards gays, were all the more shocking because gays and lesbians actually thrive in Ghana's capital, Accra.

Amazingly, global financial markets ignored the credit risks of this sovereign debt, requiring only very small differences between interest rates on German bonds and those of Greece and other peripheral countries.

4.10 The State party finds the importance which the complainant attaches to apostasy surprising, particularly since he did not make the claim until 26 September 2002 when he requested a review of the initial decision by the Swiss Asylum Review Commission.