But one airline executive said he had been taken aback by the extent of the investigation.
Still, America has admitted that it was taken aback by the persistence of militants.
Midfielder Frank Lampard said he and his team-mates have been taken aback by the speed of Cech's return.
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The bank was taken aback by the amount of money, sophistication and willingness to save in the informal economy.
But Mets players who have joined Twitter said they are often taken aback by the level of bile they encounter.
Both were taken aback by the harshness of the clash they witnessed.
Joe Robertson, a commodities trader in his 60s heading to Mass in New York, said he was taken aback by the swiftness of the vote for the 76-year-old prelate, whose name he said he couldn't pronounce.
When we ran that Curve 8900 review a couple weeks back, we were taken aback by the number of people writing in to ask what kind of phone was pictured to the right of the Curve in our lead-off image.
Unfortunately, most of those taken aback by recent events have focused attention on the symptoms rather than the disease.
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"We are taken aback by the LFA appointment of Mr Nagbe without going through the procedure and hence finds this action uncompromising, " a letter from the Sports ministry read.
"Folks, including myself, may be taken aback by the inflammatory nature of the rhetoric, but I don't think very many of us would deny that there is a fundamental truth: Racism is a problem in the United States, " Pinn says.
While the book has provided some useful insight into the early developments of American higher education, I was taken aback when I came across a passage discussing the meager pay of college faculty during the 1790-1869 period and decided that some simple economic lessons are in order for our historians.
Upon seeing an individual in a Beverly Hills parking lot talking away on the kind of wireless later used to great effect by Michael Douglas in the movie Wall Street, all three of us were taken aback.
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He said he was "taken aback" that he had since received thousands of messages of support.
When I first started at Google, fresh out of school, I was taken aback by how curt and angry many senior execs seemed.
Real would have expected Dortmund to start at breakneck speed, but even it was taken aback by the pace, power and ferocity of the German side.
When I first wrote about the stock in June of 2008, I was taken aback by the negative response and it seemed to outpace any other stock I had written on by a wide margin.
Richard Ottaway, the member of parliament for Coulsden, was taken aback by Meredith's funeral at Croydon Minster.
Corman's wife and producing partner Julie Corman said they were taken aback at YouTube's potential after a clip of their 2010 movie "Sharktopus" went viral with 11 million views.
As I had always taken a great interest in the outcome of these various campaigns, I was taken aback when on discovering how much my radio reports had annoyed Tony Blair.
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For another, he has taken Norwegians aback with the deftness by which he has pulled his trio of disparate parties together.
Meanwhile, British author Robert Harris - who had been working with Mr Polanski on a film adaptation of his novel The Ghost - said he was taken aback by the weekend's events.
He was taken aback, having been certain that the human genome would be unlike that of any other species.
He also said that agency officials were "taken aback to learn" that banks hadn't been using the full range of legal options in trying to recover money from the bad loans.
After a few minutes of rendering, the new plot appeared, and I was a bit taken aback by what I saw.
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What took many aback, however, was that in France's regional elections last year some members of the centre-right took the hand of the National Front, thus offering it a degree of respectability, in order to cling on to power themselves.
Apple watchers were a bit taken aback by the news yesterday that Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch will be joining the company as a vice president of technology, with some Apple fanboys saying they are surprised by the choice and pointing out that Lynch has been a vocal critic of the company in the past.
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But in spite of Arduino's near ubiquity these days, we'll admit that we were a bit taken aback when the familiar blue microcontroller made an appearance on a lab desk during our conversation with NASA "lighting guy, " Dr. Eirik Holbert.
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