Instead, there is a surge in imports.
There is a surge of energy.
He wants there now to be a surge of allied forces into Afghanistan in the way he believes that the surge of 35,000 extra American forces into Iraq have turned round security there – though some say the picture isn't as simple as that.
A local politician had, in fact, been assassinated by a zealot a few days before and as a result, there had been a surge in Indian forces.
There was a surge as the indie rockers opened, forcing many who had made their way to the front up against security barriers.
In reality, though, the NATO venture is becoming ever more Americanised.Along with a surge of foreign forces, there needs to be a surge of Afghan ones.
But whatever the audio shortcomings, Coltrane's 30-minute solo on the title track, against Elvin Jones' surging drums, is a tour de force.
His mind surges: the novel is a tour de force of interior monologue, slipping between tenses and locations to the rhythm of Cleaver's great grievance — which turns out to be (rather to his surprise) not the immediate injury of his son's book but a deeper pain altogether.
What it doesn't have right now (and this may change as the new cast members relax and stretch into their roles) is that surging tidal force that takes you where you never intended to go, knocking the breath out of you.
