Israel had been caught by surprise, because good intelligence was misinterpreted in a climate of arrogant over confidence.

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

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.

The unrest caught most people by surprise both inside and outside the region and has fundamentally upended at least five conventional beliefs about the Arab world.

Financial Times Journalist, Borzou Daraghi writes on Facebook that hardliners had so thoroughly convinced themselves that they really won 2009's elections that they were completely caught by surprise

We took the enemy by surprise.

The main advantage of going through an official rationing is that people are able to know when and at what time they ll have their water interrupted so they can take precautions and are not caught by surprise.

Caught by surprise in Tibet, and by the virulence and popularity of what they described as anti Chinese sentiments, China s rulers have resorted to the traditional tools of authoritarian regimes, turning their citizens deep nationalism and sense of humiliation against Western critics.

An existing border dispute was used as a pretext to launch a swift invasion (one that caught Nehru s India by surprise), inflict a humiliating defeat, and then stage a seemingly magnanimous unilateral withdrawal designed to highlight India s impotence.

The man caught the girl by the wrist.

By the time he caught up, soldiers were already shooting.

BRUSSELS Financial crises tend to start abruptly and end by surprise.

We would have caught hold of him by his right hand

We would have caught hold of him by his right hand

But the general mood was perhaps caught by this peculiarly sentimental tweet

As a result, the protests took these countries seemingly responsive presidents by surprise.

Getting noticed by Global Voices was quite a nice great surprise as well!

Bibi s Big Surprise

America s Saving Surprise

The Obama Surprise

What a surprise!

It's a surprise.

So, while the Arab Spring has been a genuine popular uprising against decades of corrupt and oppressive authoritarian regimes, its rapid spread, which caught almost everyone by surprise, was due in part to the influence of Al Jazeera, which became the voice of the voiceless throughout the Middle East.

Limits are imposed on what species of fish may be caught, when each species may be caught and how many may be caught.

Layla got caught.

Sami got caught.

When surprise, surprise! this turns out to be impossible, they give up on reform altogether.

China s Monetary Policy Surprise

Painful, but no surprise

What a nice surprise!

What a wonderful surprise!

That wouldn't surprise me.

Now to my surprise

It doesn't surprise me.

Sure enough, I had caught one I just completely forgot that I had caught one.

She caught my eye.

I won't get caught.

Layla caught Sami's eye.

Sami's killer was caught.

Sami caught a ride.

I wanted to surprise her.

Unfortunately, that is no surprise.

This should be no surprise.

That should not surprise us.

The Politics of Revolutionary Surprise