Sentence examples for unexpected verdict from inspiring English sources

When the debate finished, the judge announced an unexpected verdict: Liberty had won.

Barclays expressed its dismay at the unexpected verdict and said it would lodge an appeal.

The unexpected verdict by the anonymous six-man, six-woman jury came on the fifth day of deliberations.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Basit said that the government was dismayed over the unexpected verdict and that its main objective was to ensure Siddiqui,s return to Pakistan.

But in their haste to find an overarching explanation to an unexpected verdict, these analysts and politicians, including many winners, overlooked some key facts, according to Ms. Gupta and Mr. Panagariya.

At the end of December it failed to repay a $563m loan; some people fear that a costly bail-out is on the cards.The second distraction is an unexpected verdict handed down by the federal court in a long-running murder case.

A reconstruction of the case from sources including members of the Klebnikov family, insiders in Washington, court officers in Moscow and a range of law enforcement officials in Russia and the West suggests that a seemingly solid case presented by a team of the country's best prosecutors led to entirely unexpected verdicts, raising unnerving questions about what happened and why.

Colombians, meanwhile, were celebrating an unexpected legal verdict that paves the way for gay marriage to be recognised.

BEIJING — A brief news article published on Sunday by a score of state-run news media outlets offered an account of an unexpected judicial verdict: a Beijing municipal court had sentenced 10 people to jail for illegally detaining and assaulting a group of citizens who had come to the capital to lodge complaints about official malfeasance in their hometown in China's central Henan Province.

Despite the unexpected end, the verdict on this year's festival was that it passed without the cinematic fireworks of some previous editions, with fewer films debuting on the Croisette likely to be loom large in the awards conversation.

The guilty verdict was unexpected by almost everyone, but Mr. Dunne in particular looked shocked.