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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The protests started after the Palestinian Authority declared an increase of about 8 in fuel and petrol prices in the West Bank, starting from the beginning of September.

From time to time L. F. has harassed her and threatened to move back into the apartment.

When Mikhail Khodorkovsky and other executives of Yukos, his oil company, were arrested last year, corporations investing or interested in investing in Russia were prepared to interpret the crackdown as an isolated incident brought on by the political agenda of the company and its CEO, who should have known better. Never mind that by the second half of 2003, it had become obvious that the government intended to use legal means in the form of massive tax claims to destroy the company.

Shame on you and on your sense of honor. The Liberated Kfarnabl 04 09 2012 Helal Samarqandy wrote on Facebook

The hawks were right to be in a hurry.

While Moses replied to Heyoka's tweet by saying

The world stood by and watched as a people were murdered. Kareem Shaheen ( kshaheen) 18 November 2016

I suppose it's different when you think about it over the long term.

when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness

Maybe capitalism works better when skeptics restrain its excesses than when true believers are writing, interpreting, judging, and executing the rules of the game.

So I want you to imagine when in a couple of years, when we've started to apply this cloud based information, when we really have the A.I. physician and leverage our brains to connectivity to make decisions and diagnostics at a level never done.

When we landed on the moon, we saw the ruins of a magnificent building.

In the hope that it will help change behaviors. I thought myself pathetic in my failure to react.

So how do you feel when the lights go out on the global economy in your mind, when your assumptions about the future fade away and something very different emerges?

Maybe that capitalism works better when it is being held accountable to some external standard than when left to its own devices.

Lenders provide money when times are good, but want their money back when, say, energy prices plummet.

These transfers have accelerated convergence when put to good use (for example, in several Spanish provinces), but have been ineffective when wasted (as in Greece).

If there is an afferent defect in the left eye, both pupils will dilate when the light is shining on the left eye, but both will constrict when it is shining on the right eye.

Comments on this post ranged from disturbing to evolution turning wrong.

Suddenly the builders could no longer understand each other.

The complete filling, on the other hand, takes days.

But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.

But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.

The truth is that such models are most useful when they are little known or not universally believed.

These loans earn the banks a high return when the economy is strong, but are protected from losses by government bailouts when the economy weakens.

Liberals are most needed when compromises have to be made, but not nearly as useful when faced with brute force.

However, once we set aside its elitist history, there remains a strong element of truth to this idea, especially when applied to the humanities.

This would seem to be particularly true when it comes to an attack on Iran s nuclear installations.

Ants with this ability are able to control the direction of their descent while falling.