Sentence examples for simply caught off from inspiring English sources

Others were simply caught off guard.

Federal and state officials said it appeared that the firefighters in the Esperanza fire had been following procedures and were simply caught off guard.

Witnesses who contended that relentlessly bullish analysts were simply caught off guard by the recent bear market in stocks and that their work was indeed worthy of investors' trust were countered by others who argued that Wall Street research is biased, lacking in integrity and serves the interests of corporations and firms first and investors last.

C1 Market Research Inquiry A House subcommittee began hearings on brokerage firm research analysts, with some witnesses saying analysts had simply been caught off guard by the sudden downturn in stocks but with others saying Wall Street research was biased.

Granted, I did call him without warning so he may well have simply been caught off guard.

Consider these things when "reading into" a smile: A person could simply be caught off guard by your smile.

Mr. Mori's allies, perhaps caught off guard or simply preferring a quieter transition ahead of a critical election for the upper house of Parliament next year, hope to block a no-confidence vote by keeping party members in line.

Part of me hopes that what happened in California is that progressives were simply lulled to sleep by our liberal reputation and were caught off guard.

I said, caught off guard.

People are caught off guard.

Roddick, caught off guard, obliged.