Here are 10 books concerning the ancient world that subvert, surprise, challenge, and please".
General Fonseka ran for president in last month's election, mounting a surprise challenge to his onetime ally, President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Mr. McGreevey, who fended off a surprise challenge last summer from another Democrat, United States Senator Robert G. Torricelli, had no rivals within his party when the year began.
If we are to imagine truly alternative futures; worlds, social structures, habits and cultures that seem almost unreal, but which also surprise, challenge and disturb.
"It was embarrassing, pathetic," said the Castleford coach Terry Matterson, whose team have now suffered three consecutive defeats including last weekend's surprise Challenge Cup exit at Widnes.
The centrist Francois Bayrou, the dark horse "third man" who had posed a surprise challenge to the frontrunners, took 18.5% of the vote.
The Bulls suffered a surprise Challenge Cup defeat against Dewsbury and are fourth in the Championship after winning five of their first nine matches.
A bit more restrained than Mr. Kriendler, Mr. Conklin added: "I cannot speak to the quality of some of these one-off examples, but the bottles were stored well and should surprise, challenge and satisfy".
Andy Cohen, the head of original programming and development at Bravo, floated a proposal for "Top Chef" that would involve, early on in the new season, a surprise challenge and the swift elimination of a contestant.
In a later symbolic shutting of the door on the welfare state era, he was nominated as RIBA president in 1981, but lost to a surprise challenge by Owen Luder, who mobilised the private practitioners against the fading public service ethic of the architectural establishment which Derbyshire by then represented.
