Sentence examples for surprised much of from inspiring English sources

Recently Mr. Dalton surprised much of the new-music world by abruptly announcing his resignation.

Since elections last year, Burma's president, Thein Sein, has surprised much of the world by engineering sweeping reforms.

Miller surprised much of the N.F.L. — and even Sherman — when he agreed to let his name be used in the class-action antitrust lawsuit players filed against the N.F.L. after the players union dissolved itself March 11.

But it was a prime example of a development that has surprised much of the political world: Mrs. Clinton is learning to play nice with the Drudge Report and the powerful, elusive and conservative-leaning man behind it.

Recently, Pope Francis surprised much of the world by advising that the Catholic Church nurture rather than judge single parents, gay people and unmarried straight couples who are living together.

On Wednesday, in a move that surprised much of the country, Tamil Nadu's chief minister, Jayaram Jayalalitha, said she would use legal provisions under the Indian criminal code to release all seven prisoners early.

Adding to the surprise, much of this outsize production has come from the Mets' oft-maligned outfield.

To my surprise, much of the content was unavailable, despite being an XBOX Live customer with a broadband Internet connection.

One surprise: Much of the money came from corporate backers, such as Microsoft, NTTDocomo and Reuters, and not the usual pension funds, endowments and foundations.

To no one's surprise, much of Wednesday night's debate focused on the country's trillion dollar deficit.

To our surprise, much of the correlation to bond-forming interactions (i.e. high coevolution potentials of acid-base pairs and of cysteine-cysteine) and to the MJ contact energies was preserved (R = −0.6601, Figure S4D).