Sentence examples for surprisingly welcome from inspiring English sources

The home of the Duma can be a surprisingly welcome, even friendly place for visitors — that is, if you're not from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty or Voice of America, both of which were barred this week.

Yet a new guard of inventive chefs – many of whom have trained outside France – is back in Lyon, bringing flair and fusion and being made surprisingly welcome in this very traditional gastronomic spot.

All this is troubling news for the fortune seekers who flocked here in recent years but a surprisingly welcome development in some respects for one group: Emirati natives, the 10percentt or so who trace their lineage to the Bedouins and traders who once had this baking sliver of sand to themselves.

It turned out that the first leg of that play-off – the lacklustre 1-0 defeat in Dublin – was a truer indicator of what Trapattoni would bring, a bleak passivity that made visiting teams surprisingly welcome and home supporters uncharacteristically subdued.

But Alexei Kudrin, the reformist finance minister, surprisingly welcomed Mr Voloshin's departure and made sharp comments about Yukos.

In March 2011 East Timor applied to join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a move that was surprisingly welcomed by Indonesia; the latter's occupation of East Timor from 1975 to 1999 had devastated the country.

Reidenberg, perhaps surprisingly, welcomes suicide rulings for the killings of suicidal people by police, arguing that they may actually draw welcome attention to what he sees as a national crisis.

Inside the shop, you get the sense that this is a community, and as a tourist passing through -- you're surprisingly welcomed.

Many bartenders have found that their acidulous concoctions have received a surprisingly warm welcome.

Judging by these comments, it seems likely that the American President will receive a surprisingly warm welcome when he lands in Switzerland.

Although the Egyptian government had said that it would not allow foreign monitors to observe the polls, election experts who nonetheless flew to Egypt for the vote said they received a surprisingly warm welcome.