The Politics of Revolutionary Surprise

The timing of the 2001 rate decrease stunned the market.

It's already expensive, slow and now the biggest surprise it is limited!

The third surprise, however, may be the most interesting.

This German success relied greatly on the element of surprise.

Coming as a positive surprise to the markets, it would reverse their mood.

There was little coordination and some ships were undermanned because of the surprise achieved by the Romans.

The things that interest me when I'm working are visual structure, surprise and anything that requires figuring things out.

What may surprise the world most in 2015?

And, just as suddenly, the French, according to early polls, are proud again to be French.

This news came as a surprise to many in the tiny land locked Balkan country of two million people.

As a result, the goal of a facial slap is not to inflict physical pain, but to induce surprise and humiliation.

My current work seems to resonate with people in a way that has so taken me by surprise that I still frequently wonder what in the hell is going on.

The surprise of Bush s new policy is its shift of political focus from Iraq to its two immediate neighbors.

In China, flash floods have so far killed more than a thousand people and destroyed more than a million homes.

The first surprise I encountered while working for CCTV as a program planner was how minimal this system is.

The magnitude of budget deficits like the magnitude of the downturn has taken many by surprise.

Second, Li Keqiang the presumptive incoming premier could be the big surprise in the new leadership team.

The intensity and scale of the violence have stunned the world.

The surprise in the first round of the French presidential election was that there was no surprise, except for the huge level of voter turnout.

An unpleasant surprise cannot be ruled out at this point, it might be Europe s greatest source of hope.

And you enter that space, and you feel like, Wow! This is so impressive, just because of this focal point, this huge light source in the middle.

Notwithstanding Obama s skillful response to the Arab Spring the only strategic surprise that he has faced as president his credibility in the Muslim world has steadily declined.

The big surprise is Europe, which, unlike in 2004 and the first half of 2005, now seems to be catching up with the rest of the world.

Renewed risks of financial instability point to the fourth and final surprise the failure to recast major contributors to the crisis in a credible, sustainable, and socially responsible manner.

Okay, so what this tells us is that, contrary to the old adage, monkey see, monkey do, the surprise really is that all of the other animals really cannot do that at least not very much.

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

The surprise came on social media, with netziens who are usually meek in criticising the actions of members of the ruling family, using their real names and voicing the worst criticism.

But the greatest surprise was in India s largest state, Uttar Pradesh (with a population of 200 million), where 402 legislators were elected to its massive state assembly.

Here, this cloaked, secret agent virus is slipping his DNA into the bacterial cell, but here's the kicker It doesn't do anything harmful not at first.

Then came the riots in Tibet, which caught the government off guard, followed by embarrassing protests over China s Olympic torch relay in several Western and Asian countries.

TOKYO There was little surprise in President Barack Obama s announcement late last year that the United States will strengthen its position in East Asia while drawing down its forces in Europe.

Many bloggers tried to interpret the reasons behind what seemed like sudden protests, citing the unequal economic situation as well as high unemployment among youth, plaguing countries in Africa and the Middle East.

It does not come as a big surprise to find persons formerly in need of assistance among today's entrepreneurs of the Economy of Communion working to meet the needs of their brothers and sisters in the human family.

And this was kind of a surprise to me, but we found that as long as you keep the 100 things in your head, which you did by writing them down, that you could do a pretty good job deciding what to do and where to put your resources.

Indeed, the real surprise is that protests such as Occupy Wall Street have resulted in so little change, suggesting that institutions, once established, are sticky in preserving the status quo.

After the war, each adopted a never be surprised again policy, and so went on to invest trillions of dollars in a multitude of hardened, mobile, and concealed nuclear weapons to deter the other.

But by August, Allied forces broke through German lines, and a stunned Ludendorff, fearing a sudden collapse of his army, demanded that the newly constituted civilian government send an immediate request for an armistice.

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.

The surprise in the first round of the French presidential election was that there was no surprise, except for the huge level of voter turnout. The two leaders of the Right and of the Left, the favorites in all the polls for a long time, came first and second.

It was the late patriarch Deng Xiaoping who in 1992 made the surprising demand that Hu, former Secretary of the Communist Youth League and protégé of ousted party chief Hu Yaobang, be inducted into the Chinese Communist Party s (CCP) Politburo Standing Committee.

Yes, President Uribe won re election, but the big surprise in Colombia was the end of the two party system that had dominated the country for decades, and the emergence of the left wing Polo Democrático as the second largest political force in the nation.

The leaders of Belarus or Kazakhstan seemed equally surprised by Putin s statement, especially as Russia had just prohibited almost all imports of dairy products from Belarus in a protectionist ploy.

The second surprise in 2005 was that while oil prices increased far more than expected, the economic dampening effect seemed somewhat muted in most places, at least until the last part of the year.

A month ago, Kenya fell prey to a sudden burst of post electoral violence that has left over 1000 dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. The intensity and scale of the violence have stunned the world.