Longtime regime opponents, too, were caught off guard.

I was caught off guard when Stephen Colbert asked me a profound question, a profound question.

Suddenly, however, this secular commitment is no longer so clear.

The revolts themselves caught seasoned observers, even Arab leaders, off guard.

Manual observations are taken at least once daily, while automated observations are taken at least once an hour.

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.

Early on the morning of 26 June, however, two speedboats appeared from nowhere and seized the ship and crew, after menacing them with rifle fire.

Indeed, Colombia s Juan Manuel Santos Calderón and Brazil s Dilma Rousseff both skilled and experienced politicians were utterly unprepared for their countries protests.

By its own admission, Al Qaeda has been caught off guard, no doubt because the group s central argument has been that the fall of oppressive Arab governments could come only through violence.

If Europe is to be taken seriously as a global player, they argue, it must also flex some muscle when it delivers the money.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's announcement that he plans to dismantle Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, as well as some settlements in the West Bank, has shocked and caught people off guard both in Israel and around the world.

two women grinding at the mill, one will be taken and one will be left.

Two women shall be grinding at the mill the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Invaded by surprise by the Imperial German Army, which was approximately 600,000 men strong, the small, ill equipped, 117,000 strong Belgian army succeeded, for ten days, in holding the German army in front of Liège in 1914.

Several of the reported rapes took place under such conditions, or when women are taken for forced labor.

When what was a tranquil sea swallows up people, homes and long tail boats mercilessly, without warning and no one can tell you anything reliable about whether another one is coming, I'm not sure you'd want to calm down either.

Large anti Japan demonstrations took place Saturday afternoon in the cities of Xi'an, Chengdu and Zhengzhou reportedly organized by university groups over the Internet through QQ and other social networking sites , the protests have taken many by surprise.

Longtime regime opponents, too, were caught off guard. For days after Egypt erupted, the Muslim Brotherhood did not know how to react, making it seem out of touch with the Arab street.

In earlier times, when original sin was taken more seriously than it generally is today, the suffering of animals posed a particularly difficult problem for thoughtful Christians.

PARIS Why do revolutions so often take professional diplomats by surprise? Is there something in their DNA that makes them prefer the status quo so much that, more often than not, they are taken aback by rapid changes, neither foreseeing them nor knowing how to respond once they begin?

On the Republican side, hacks, spin masters, and many people who ought to have known better suddenly developed an extraordinary appreciation for something called the CPS Household Survey of Employment as a supposed guide to month to month changes in the labor market.

They are not influenced by anything but the facts, and probabilities are taken as facts.

The sufferings of our people should always be taken into account, at least from a moral and humanitarian point of view.

Stress testing is applied to baseline scenarios in order to take into account vulnerability factors.

The issue at stake was that of taking seriously the goals, to turn them into concrete actions.

Proteins structures are taken from the Protein Data Bank.

It is clearly a world wide problem that needs to be taken seriously.

Reference approach estimates should preferably be taken from the Party.

Tolerance to the sleep disruption effects of caffeine were seen after consumption of 400 mg of caffeine 3 times a day for 7 days, whereas complete tolerance was observed after consumption of 300 mg taken 3 times a day for 18 days.

Israeli threats of renewing its war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip are taken very seriously.

for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.

For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.

Sampling at this facility was not performed prior to 1995.

He trusted that that compromise would not be jeopardized.

For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

For man also knoweth not his time as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

There are a number of issues to be taken into consideration.

Concerning landlessness, the property of the other spouse is taken into consideration .

Some critics dismiss this planning as just war games, not to be taken seriously.

Account must also be taken of vulnerable groups namely, women and children.

Although one notes occasional efforts to increase the number of open meetings of the Council, in our opinion those meetings still do not offer a real opportunity for the points of view of countries that are not members of the Council to be properly taken into account.

Cultural rights should be taken into consideration also by local policies.

The needs of parents who work long hours on some days are also taken into consideration.

The markets, not political debt ceilings, are taken seriously the introduction of Eurobonds would remove that disciplining function.

America s credibility, already low in Yemen, has hit rock bottom its leaders words are no longer taken at face value.