Sentence examples for surprising campaign from inspiring English sources

Tommy Lapid, bare-knuckled commentator and crusader against state-subsidized Judaism, has emerged, grinning, as the biggest surprise of this most surprising campaign season -- the man who would be kingmaker in Israel.

This long and surprising campaign seems to have exhausted reporters as well as your expense accounts.

Scott Brown, the Republican candidate for Senate, has run an aggressive, surprising campaign in Massachusetts, injecting fear into the Democratic machine over what was expected to be an easy victory.

His host on Monday was Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the far-left candidate in France's presidential election, who waged a surprising campaign that managed to shake up the debate in France, but came who in only fourth.

Leftists are overjoyed to have one of their own in power for the first time since Socialist Francois Mitterrand was president from 1981 to 1995.  "Austerity can no longer be inevitable!" Hollande declared in his victory speech Sunday night after a surprising campaign that saw him transform from an unremarkable, mild figure to an increasingly statesmanlike one.

"It's not surprising during campaign season that politicians from outside the city would chime in on an issue like this," he said.

It's not surprising, the campaign charged, that one client of Hevesi's consultants, Morris, Carrick & Guma, would endorse another of the firm's clients.

To the Editor: It is not surprising that campaign finance reform has failed to reduce the influence of money, as noted in "A Buck for Your Vote, Sir? (Prove It)" (Week in Review, Jan . 24.

But she may not be able to change sufficiently to meet a more unexpected challenge from the Republicans, whose surprising presidential campaign has already altered the complexion of the primaries for both parties.

"It's incredibly disappointing, but it's more disappointing than surprising," said campaign manager Kellyanne Conway on Fox News Radio's "Kilmeade & Friends".

That was hardly surprising; during campaigns of conquest that spread Ottoman rule over much of Arabia, Persia, North Africa and southern and eastern Europe, commanders were under orders to find the most skilled craftsmen in captured lands and send them to the Topkapi.