After a decade of conflict, it is surprising that al-Qaeda is not better understood.
Transmeta's approach seems, in contrast, so simple that it is surprising that nobody thought of it before.
It is surprising that a case based on tendentious and serially anonymous accusations has even got this far.
So it is surprising that the national coach, often jokingly referred to as Iran's most important job, is a naturalized American citizen.
After several years at Google, it is surprising that Mr. Yegge missed the obvious answer to why Google is not a platform.
If the value of a good brand is so obvious, it is surprising that banks have been so bad at developing them.
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With a federal investigation under way into millions of dollars in unexplained debts, it is surprising that Mr Moreira still has his job.
Given that defaults have been high and recovery rates low, it is surprising that high-yield bonds have earned positive returns so far this year.
Given the University of California's sprawling size, it is surprising that its nine campuses have not combined forces more, using the Internet as a bond.
"When FISAAA was extended to cover cloud computing, encrypting data to and from the cloud becomes irrelevant so it is surprising that nobody noticed this, " he added.
It is surprising that Mr. Dell is the father of 3 daughters and only 1 son, yet is not an advocate for women in the workplace and certainly not his own.
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So after ten months of fighting, and thousands of rebel fighters killed and captured, it is surprising that the haul of foreigners, captured or killed or even caught on camera, is so scanty.
It is surprising that a vegetable that is so delicious, wonderfully hearty and eminently storable and makes such a boldly verdant show in the garden is practically unrecognized in the try-anything United States.
It is surprising that you chose to discount the efforts of a vast majority of people, who in their everyday life refuse to be corrupt, when you were thinking about a suitable title for this article!
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And so it is surprising that America stands alone as wholly incapable of showing even the slightest empathy towards the plight of the Palestinians, whose land, according to all international conventions, has been occupied for decades.
It is surprising that the Directive is not being leveraged more by the established U.S. players because it grants a license and the authority to issue prepaid Mastercard and VISA products directly after attaining card association membership thereby dramatically lowering the barriers to entry.
Now, we all know that voluntary polls like this are not too scientific, but it is surprising that this number went down given the same potential audience of respondents, especially since a number of sponsor firms, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney for one, have expanded their efforts in this area.
Although it is not surprising that Dobbs would accuse Hollywood of a liberal conspiracy, it is surprising, however, that he would choose these two upcoming movies to bash.
Lawyers argue that it is not surprising that the courts find it almost impossible to deliver justice, when the legislation they are supposed to interpret keeps changing.
It is not surprising that Bali is unlikely to achieve anything tangible, for it is aimed at the hardest part of climate-change mitigation getting an international agreement which all the big emitters ratify.
With odds that low, maybe it is not surprising that the III is willing to go out on a limb and say that if it happened, your standard policy is likely to cover it.
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"The White House network would be the crown jewel of that campaign so it is hardly surprising that they would try their hardest to compromise it, " said Alperovictch, now with the firm Crowdstrike.
It is hardly surprising that Newham is weighed down by debt, and its financial position is deteriorating.
With so much unwanted stuff, often bought on credit, it is hardly surprising that storage is one of today's fastest-growing industries, says Ms Newlin.
Since both the levels and the origins of inequality vary widely, it is hardly surprising that there is no established relationship between income gaps and financial crises.
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Multiply such examples by their constant media coverage and it is hardly surprising that crime is the number-one issue in France's presidential and parliamentary elections, which begin in April.
In these times of newsroom austerity and mounting pressure to produce multi-media reports about news as it is breaking, it is not surprising that these two jobs would make the top ten list.
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