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.

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.

During the bombing raids, one strike hit a civilian bus on the road to Aden.

The Whitworth rifle was able to hit the target at a range of 2,000 yards, whereas the Enfield could only manage it at a distance of 1,400 yards.

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.

Sami struck Layla on the head.

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.

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.

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The other thing is, most boats, when they reach a certain speed, and they are going on waves, they start to hit and slap on the surface of the water, and a lot of the energy moving forward is lost.

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.

It s like drums now.

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?

Sami hit his wife.

Soon, footage of protesters being gunned down, appears on YouTube.

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.

Stop hitting your brother.

Stop hitting your brother.

Stop hitting your brother.

Stop hitting your sister.

Stop hitting your sister.

Stop hitting the cat!

Sami hit Layla with both fists.

Did Sami hit Layla?

Sami gave Layla a slap.

Sami beat Layla bloody.

This is probably the biggest threat to sharks worldwide it is the finning of sharks.

One of the three wounded was shot in the head, and dragged down by the soldiers.

Van Damme went on to knock out Bergman in 56 seconds of the first round.

Fadil beat Dania again.

Miu tells her experience during the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that struck north eastern Japan yesterday.

Sami knocked Layla unconscious.

Sami only hit Layla once.

Sami knocked the sheep unconscious.

There have also been extensive beatings and arbitrary detentions.

Some people getting beaten randomly.

One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.