The Politics of Revolutionary Surprise

'You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads, neither shall you clip off the edge of your beard.

Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish and a bribe destroys the understanding.

Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad and a gift destroyeth the heart.

Power corrupts, and financial power corrupts the financial system.

Don't be deceived! Evil companionships corrupt good morals.

Be not deceived evil communications corrupt good manners.

There is an old adage that a fish rots from the head.

Democracy tarnishes its heroes as surely as revolutions devour their children.

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.

He said, It's easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

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.

They serve a higher purpose (although they can be and often are corrupted or twisted for bad ends).

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.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

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.

Pesticides are used in grocery stores and food storage facilities to manage rodents and insects that infest food such as grain.

Therefore you shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice that mar the land and you shall give glory to the God of Israel perhaps he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.

and said, Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.

And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

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

Excess picric acid should be washed out of tissue using several alcohol and water solutions or staining quality may deteriorate over time.

Likewise, it is important for the Kosovo authorities to take a clear stance on inter community incidents, which continue to taint the atmosphere in the province.

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.

Now I should confess that as far as I'm concerned this would be an abomination if it emitted not one particle of carbon.

He hoped that issues before it would no longer be marred by one sided political agendas, and that it could return to productive methods of work.

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.

Village women typically are forced to cook multiple times during the day because the food that they prepare in the morning spoils in the heat.

In his foreign policy, too, Sarkozy seems to combine the right intuitions with the wrong tactics that is, when his entire strategy is not marred by the pursuit of contradictory objectives.