As the Texas legislature was dealing with the issue, some kind of surprise hearing came up, launched by people opposing the bill.
How can I...?" This is a tough one, because it often surfaces issues of guilt, surprise, resentment and feelings of inadequacy.
Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo on June 16 18, 1815, was again decided upon the issue of his inability to surprise and to prevent the joining up of two armies invading France along separate lines, in this case Wellington's Dutch and English troops and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher's Prussians.
The finding, published in the December 2003 issue of Immunology, was a surprise: "I was not studying lupus or autoimmune diseases at all," says Ghosh.
The confrontation -- the culmination of a dispute between the two over the final cut of the film and other issues -- sent a frisson of surprise through the theater, and was later the subject of many blog postings and a Jon Stewart segment, and ultimately led to Mr. Williams's appearance on "Larry King Live" to finish his speech.
But the recommendation given him today, which caught many on both sides of the issue by surprise, will make it politically easier for him to do so.
The votes largely symbolic, to be sure marked the first time in 5 years that the full Senate had spent substantial time debating climate issues, and the skirmishing included plenty of surprise maneuvers, theatrics, and fierce rhetoric.
Klofstad, one of the researchers behind one such study, said it is easily the most talked about vocal issue of the moment — quite by surprise.
Even though the Bible says nothing specific about the issue (no surprise, since the authors of the Bible didn't know squat about sperm and eggs), supporters of the amendment have convinced themselves that God Almighty determines personhood to begin at conception.
"The issue of where he is frankly surprises me.
