Sentence examples for surprise developments from inspiring English sources

Whether these surprise developments in one week in May add up to lasting consequences in November is, of course, another matter.

Winner of the Golden Bear at Berlin earlier this year, A Separation is a remarkably poised marital thriller from Iran, full of surprise developments and suppressed volatility.

The participation of the fans here is the latest in a string of conciliatory gestures and surprise developments that have left South Koreans with a giddy sense of quickening political and economic change on their shared peninsula.

WASHINGTON — A series of surprise developments in the courts and Congress has given thousands of Sept. 11 victims perhaps their best chance in the 10 years since the attacks to press lawsuits against Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and other nations that they believe were financially complicit.

With an adventurous mindset, and a bit of creativity, surprise developments can be turned to our advantage.

TRADE FOR ANYTHING: One surprise development in the global village: parts of it are extremely regional.

When she heard the surprise development, Ms. Rospigliosi had an are-you-kidding reaction.

The guilty plea came as a surprise development in a case that seemed limited to regulatory actions.

In a surprise development, 11 European tourists and 8 Egyptian guides were kidnapped on September 19 while on a little-trodden desert trek at Jebel Oweinat in southwestern Egypt.

In a surprise development on Tuesday, Malaysia Airlines granted lawyers in Sydney representing victims' families access to a huge number of company records, including maintenance log books and medical certificates of the crew.

The surprise development came after the first signs of movement in the siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, where about 250 Palestinian gunmen have been encircled by Israeli forces for three weeks.