But there is a twist.

But that liberating sentiment has recently undergone an ironic twist.

That is one twist that Prebisch would never have anticipated.

In a surprising, politically potent twist, New Jersey s governor, Chris Christie, who had been the keynote speaker at the Republican convention at which Romney had mocked the dangers of global warming, turned out to be one of those impressed with Obama s performance, and said so publicly.

Once formed, vortices can move, stretch, twist, and interact in complex ways.

This is hardly surprising.

That is hardly surprising.

This may seem surprising.

This is hardly surprising.

Reporters are not entitled to so twist the facts as to reinvent them.

The negotiations stalled, but a macabre twist turned the kidnapping into a killing.

That makes my job more difficult, because, if I want to surprise them, I need to tell a story that starts the same, but ends differently a trick with a twist on a twist.

This should not be surprising.

And so the fates are seldom wrong, no matter how they twist and wind.

Television and newspapers continue to trumpet every twist and turn of global financial markets.

All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

Such a response should not be surprising.

There should be nothing surprising about this.

This lack of transparency is not surprising.

This finding is again not entirely surprising.

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But the Harvard students response was not entirely surprising.

This is not surprising, given Africa s poor educational provision.

Even more surprising, new international norms are being advanced.

Russia s persistence in its self defeating occupation is surprising.

That is not surprising Corporatist institutions plausibly retard development.

So the students lawsuit was not surprising to me.

That is not surprising. Neither is it a problem.

PARIS If the law supposes that, says Mr. Bumble in Oliver Twist, the law is a ass a idiot.

Furthermore, by a twist of language, regulations affecting capital flows are pejoratively called controls, rather than their correct name.

I haven't heard from Jamal since last night. Not surprising.

It is not surprising that policy approaches have also varied.

Not much, the empirical evidence suggests. This might appear surprising.

The success of the Swedish approach is not so surprising.

It is not surprising that this role has recently vanished.

Given dysfunctional US fiscal policy, the dollar s resilience is surprising.

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

There is thus a surprising resilience in the European project.

She is beautiful, energetic, resolute, and in many ways surprising.

This is not surprising, given the country s history and culture.

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

Surprising mothers is a trend, at least for some soldiers.