Sentence examples for surprising outbreak from inspiring English sources

In a surprising outbreak of peace in the mobile phone world, Apple and the Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC have halted legal hostilities and signed a 10-year licensing agreement.

Instead, it was the front line against one of the city's more surprising outbreaks in years.

They believe they already hold the moral high ground, having won the backing of a commission set up to deal with parades, as well as that of the RUC and Mr Blair, for their insistence that no march should take place.The peace process has seen several surprising outbreaks of compromise and flexibility in areas of Northern Irish politics where none had been seen before.

QUESTION FROM TOD: What was so surprising about the outbreak of unrest in Egypt?

He refrained from doing so even when he was presented with strong evidence that an attack on a tribal gathering he convened in Kabul in June was carried out by the Haqqani network, one of the three leading insurgent groups, which has close links to Pakistan's intelligence service.Even more surprising is an outbreak of shuttle diplomacy.

It was surprising that this outbreak occurred among a highly vaccinated preschool population, said five epidemiologists who are staff members at the Florida Department of Health in Tallahassee —writing to Live Science in a joint email.

The WHO acknowledges being slow but has blamed its response partly on the  surprising characteristics of the outbreak.

It was only the fall of communism that allowed Jeanne Guillemin and her colleagues to piece together, through painstaking research on site, the surprising truth behind the outbreak.A similar detective tale is told by Luc Montagnier, the French scientist who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV.

The prolonged length of time (five months) over which the cases occurred at the preschool was another surprising aspect of the outbreak, the epidemiological staff said.

This epidemic was surprising as no cholera outbreak had been reported in Haiti for more than a century (1, 2 ).

He said the outbreak was not surprising considering the time of year and the fact that "these are schools and there wasn't an expectation that they would be long-term facilities for the homeless".