Indeed, it is not altogether clear how big a threat he thinks al-Qaeda poses.
As President Obama heads to Saudi Arabia and Egypt this week, his strategy is not altogether clear.
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But while uplifting amid a fracturing TV landscape and dour economy, the uptick is not altogether surprising.
Some critics saw his project as a sort of suicide, and he did not altogether dispute that.
Although it is reprehensible that the methods of some tabloid journalists shaded into criminality, it is not altogether surprising.
As with so many things in medicine, the answer is not altogether clear.
Downing Street has sought to play down the rebellion as "not altogether surprising".
So it's not altogether surprising that while Algeria is not in the midst of a revolution, that many travellers are steering clear.
But it has not altogether mishandled its management of the oil-spill crisis.
The fact that she got her start as a cocktail waitress in one of the hotels on our list is not altogether surprising.
But the agencies are not altogether wrong to behave this way.
Today, the prospect is not altogether bright that the United States, its goodwill and resources depleted by Iraq and other cares, will play the same role.
And yet, despite Mr Mack's virtues and the piles of recent laudatory articles, it is not altogether apparent that he is the man for the job.
But sales and marketing is also where my biggest weakness lies: I can do it, but my experience in hotel sales and marketing is not altogether conventional.
What was left when I left were the big-box bookstores and one remarkably savvy, if not altogether likable, independent that long ago started a similar buy-the-book-for-tickets policy.
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In the circumstances, then, it was perhaps not altogether unsurprising that vital security issues were compromised by the hosts' desperate-to-please commitment to the spirit of international friendship.
Still, Russia's worries are partly genuine, and not altogether unreasonable.
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This was toxic for the Republicans, and not altogether true.
Fortunately, the authors' attempts at obfuscation do not altogether succeed.
As we have learned more about the insularity of the Penn State football program, McQueary's inaction that evening becomes, if not altogether understandable, at least somewhat easier to comprehend.
Though the announcement may come as a surprise to many outside of the company, his return to the TV industry after a brief stint at AOL was not altogether unexpected.
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However, the realities of contemporary technology either (1) render irrelevant the significance of the opinion (and appeals in particular) or make the opinions nearly (if not altogether) impossible to enforce.
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Most unmarried sons in Japan are, these days, eldest sons, and the prospect of caring for their ever-more antique parents is not altogether enticing for an educated young Japanese woman.
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Not altogether, but different people have done different workshops.
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And, strangely, such platitudinous advice is not altogether unrealistic.
Most say that the parliamentary report is a whitewash, but Turks were not altogether surprised to learn that convicted criminals such as Catli, a fugitive since 1978, had been used by the state.
To the extent that this fear can discourage traders from buying oil, the president may have a weak, blunt, but not altogether futile weapon against ever-rising prices that does not require lifting a finger.
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The move is significant but not altogether surprising.
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