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.

(a) The Conference of the Parties so requests

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.

Ms. O.C. worked at the sales counter, while Mr. S.V. worked as a driver.

(a) Maintain or restore the status quo pending determination of the dispute

So the friend of a friend of A's is, back again, a friend of A's, whereas the friend of a friend of B's is not a friend of B's, but is farther away in the network.

(a) Capping of corporate costs, while corporate functions address strategic matters of governance, oversight and inspection

(a) Reservations to treaties

(a) Bilateral relations

Under article 147, subparagraph 2 (a), the Prosecutor General is authorized to issue a decision to make a preventive seizure of funds suspected of being related to terrorist activity and prohibit their disposal until the procedures to investigate them are complete.

Therefore it can be applied to the relationship between the COP MOP and the GEF.

I give him an A on this.

The paragraph reads as follows

Cognizant of decisions 11 CP.7, 15 CP.7, 17 CP.7, 19 CP.7, 20 CP.7, 21 CP.7, 22 CP.7, 23 CP.7, 21 CP.8, 22 CP.8, 13 CP.9, 18 CP.9 and its annex II, and 19 CP.9,

Recalling its decisions 11 CP.1, 13 CP.1, 7 CP.2, 9 CP.3, 2 CP.4, 4 CP.4, 9 CP.5, 4 CP.7, 10 CP.8, and 6 CP.10,

The Organization prepares and presents its budget in one currency only, i.e. the euro.

(b) The access control system, which was planned by UNOV as part of the security enhancements programme, was not approved by UNIDO's Member States.

(c) The provision for translation services for policy making organs meetings has been reduced by 300,000.

Resources will be required for journal advertisements and other promotional activities.

Miscellaneous expenditures relate to translation, mailing costs and bank charges.

C. Other items Other items for which miscellaneous income has been received in prior biennia, but for which reliable estimates cannot be made are presented for the information of Member States.

Any income received for these or other miscellaneous items during the biennium will be recorded against other income and reported in the financial performance reports.

(a) Universalizing the Convention

a Countries participating on trial basis.

Mr. Nicolas Michel, Under Secretary General, the Legal Counsel, represented the Secretary General.

Organizational matters Status of ratification of the Kyoto Protocol

(a) Italy had ratified the Beijing Amendment

(a) To obtain knowledge of the physical nature of asteroids.

Report of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice Report of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation

(a) Appeals on the merits

(cc) In connection with item 11 (c) Mr.

See section 49a of the Aliens Act Section 49a.