It's hardly a surprise that Bruce Springsteen has joined The Gaslight Anthem on stage, just as it's hardly a surprise that footage of the collaboration depicts singer Brian Fallon looking as if his heart is about to explode in a trillion joyful pieces.
It's hardly surprising that things are getting heated, given the emotional intensity of the gun issue.
So it's hardly surprising that companies respond by plastering their products with warnings about every conceivable risk.
After 20 years of war, it's hardly surprising that so many Somalis are ready to turn their backs on home.
It's hardly surprising that the decision has been warmly and publicly welcomed this morning by UK Government business ministers like Vince Cable and Mark Prisk.
"It's hardly surprising that a test specifically designed to make fewer people qualify for disability benefits is passing more people as 'fit to work', " he said.
"It's hardly surprising that in the circumstances of a financial crisis that blew a hole in our material wealth and left us with a large deficit to reduce, people took a somewhat gloomier view then than they had done previously, " he said.
In an interwar Britain convulsed by a fresh set of shocks - the great depression, mass unemployment, the rise of fascism in Europe - it's hardly surprising that readers looked on such places as a nostalgic reminder of an apparently simpler time before August 1914.
"It's hardly surprising that so much of the coverage has been focused on him - a disproportion that increased when it was decided that there would be no official reviewing of the production's short recent run at the Globe, " noted Paul Taylor in The Independent.
It's hardly a coincidence that all but two of the Japanese companies on our list give no information about executive compensation.
This is a classy, conscientious, well-acted drama, but it's hardly a revelation that law firms get rich defending immoral corporations -- sad to say, that truth is already out there.
And so it's hardly worth complaining that the cafe chairs make an awful screech when dragged on those concrete floors, and that there's still a line to the ladies room at intermission when the audiences of two of the three theaters come out to stretch.
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Driving towards the peninsula's tip, it's clear that human settlement has hardly made a scratch on this barren landscape.
It is hardly Oxbridge's fault that the proportion of privately educated pupils it accepts has risen as a result.
It's hardly been a secret that Apple's Jony Ive is exploring some more radical changes to iOS since taking the design reins for software in addition to hardware, but Bloomberg is now reporting some new details that paint a better picture of just what's going on in the lead-up to iOS 7.
Given that Mr Turabi's party controls nearly all the parliament's 400 seats, it is hardly surprising that Mr Bashir should have felt threatened.
It's a peach of a role (it hardly needs pointing out that Eastwood has a long history of putting himself up against strong, independent women), and Adams is charming as a smart, attractive, career-driven, pool shootin', baseball lovin', perpetually thwarted daddy's girl.
It's hardly rocket science to suggest that people will be turned off by such a complex proposition.
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It's hardly a surprise to learn that the region is now better known for its wine than its beef.
Sadly, none of this can be retrofitted into older devices, but the good news is that it's hardly limited to mobiles.
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Simon Calder, travel editor of The Independent, says it's hardly surprising when you consider that there are different grading systems in England, Scotland and Wales.
It's hardly surprising, though, that the latest chief in that state of affairs is Tom Glocer , the 48-year old CEO of Reuters Group .
While those numbers do represent the slowest rate of growth Cupertino has seen in years, it's hardly the fall from grace that some analysts were predicting.
So it's hardly a novel concept, but it's only now becoming likely that you'll see it in the real world: Fujitsu announced today that its palm readers will soon be installed in bank kiosks, building lobbies, and other places where you might need to verify your identity at a checkpoint of some sort.
Ronaldo stepped up to slam home a routine penalty but it was hardly surprising that Bolton's dismayed fans were soon singing "1-0 to the referee".
Given Suhail Khan's family background, it is hardly surprising that he, too, has spent a considerable amount of time associating with the sorts of organizations favored by his parents.
Given all these concerns, it is hardly surprising that Iraq's neighbours have been playing for time, voicing opposition to an invasion of Iraq and holding back from offering America military support.
It's hardly -- and it's not a secret argument, he has that out there open for everybody to see.
That's hardly stock Android, as you all know, but it is nice to see that you can set up the device with no additional widgets or in-your-face skinnings. (Sprint does bundle its so-called Sprint ID packs, but you can disable these easily enough.) Other than that, Sprint is quickest to emphasize Google Wallet as the biggest software draw.
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When you put all this together, it is hardly surprising therefore that RBS's share price remains in the doldrums.
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