Sentence examples for off the surprise from inspiring English sources

But the market shrugged off the surprise announcement.

A few miles away at Loftus Road, Preston pulled off the surprise result of the day, beating QPR 2-0 to earn their first points of the season.

And so God's Not Dead, a movie that few if any box-office reporters were tracking in earnest before the weekend, pulled off the surprise of the session when it debuted at number five.

The critical response was almost unanimous, and Ben Brantley of The New York Times wrote that Ms. Peters had pulled off "the surprise coup of many a Broadway season" and anointed her a worthy successor to Ethel Merman, the gold standard by which all Momma Roses are judged.

In order to pull off the surprise, Negrilli said he told his boyfriend that they'd won a contest to meet Kesha.

Critics accused Tsipras of panicking because European leaders had called his bluff: Rather than capitulate to his demands and stave off the surprise referendum, they were supporting the vote as a statement of where Greece stands on the euro and the EU.

The movie's sexual politics are as contrived as its plot, which veers off into one of the surprise endings of which Mr. Altman is so fond.

It did not stop Quins pulling off one of the surprises of the season.

But their inability to take chances cost them dear and they face starting 2015 in the relegation zone unless they can pull off one of the surprises of the season at Manchester City on Sunday.

California-born Arj Barker arrived at the Edinburgh fringe in 1997 and promptly walked off as the surprise winner of the Perrier best newcomer award.

The breakdown was set off by the surprise decision of Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the House majority leader and one of two Republicans participating in sessions led by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., to quit the negotiations.