Sentence examples for surprising problem from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Barriera faced a surprising problem: Many residents of this neighborhood don't want the money.

The most irritating, and surprising, problem was the applicants' seeming lack of vocabulary.

In some Gulf states, schools have a surprising problem: To fight against the ubiquity of English while teaching Arab students high-quality Arabic, of the sort that could be used at a professional broadcaster like Al Jazeera.

But some advocates for the deaf say that a fervent devotion to the exclusive use of sign language by many of the deaf has helped foster a little known and surprising problem: The average 18-year-old deaf American reads at a fourth-grade level.

I asked Karlitschek about any particular challenges specific to the development of ownCloud 5. Since ownCloud is intended to run on any major platform, he said that they ran into a particularly surprising problem when running an ownCloud server on a Windows host.

They also excel in an area that some might find surprising: problem solving.

But most such reports deal with surprising problems that seem to be directly caused by a drug.

Condorcet anticipated a key theme of modern social choice theory: majority rule is at once a plausible method of collective decision making and yet subject to some surprising problems.

Monday, October 24, 9 36 a.m.: As I explained in my last post, I recently found myself with a surprising new problem: all the work we can handle.

Relief organizations that were in the country before the quake found themselves suffering surprising logistical problems.

First, BT's pending $21 billion merger with America's MCI was clouded by MCI's announcement of surprising financial problems, which prompted the market to knock a cool $9 billion off the two firms' combined value.