For all its resources, the United States and its western allies were taken completely by surprise by the brutally swift events which are now reshaping the geo-strategic map of the Middle East.
The transition phase from regular ovarian cycles to menopause is not a swift biologic event.
Swift attributed the event to the fact that she is most likely to cry over when her loved ones undergo pain, as she witnesses it, rather than her own experiences.
It was a swift turn of events for Mr. Torricelli.
Ms. Gallagher's lawyer, Stephen Rubino, attributed the Salesians' policy shift to the swift pace of events in the temporal world.
But Mr. Romney's team was nonetheless clearly thrown — perhaps along with the political world at large — by the swift turn of events here.
"You don't have to worry about some swift turn of events that would cause you to lose it," he said.
That British report of half a century ago gave warning that: "The Scandinavian states can no longer consider themselves in a peaceful backwater, unaffected by the swift stream of events which bears others remorselessly along".
Lobbyists for the tenants' groups seemed exhausted by the swift turn of events, and could do little more than mourn what they saw as a lost opportunity to safeguard the rent system for future generations.
He writes, "We hastened home; and fancying we foresaw in the swift progress of events, its entire abolition, resolved from that day forward to vent our speculations on our next-door neighbours in person".
The swift pace of events at Fox News — only two weeks passed between Ms. Carlson's filing of her lawsuit and the negotiations to end Mr. Ailes's leadership — were especially surprising for a network that has made its name by embracing "politically incorrect" themes, something in keeping with the brash personalities of both Mr. Ailes and the 21st Century Fox patriarch, Rupert Murdoch.
