Sentences with phrase «as a surprise to know»

It doesn't come as a surprise to know that many players struggle with transferring training methods, practices and exercises from their international duties to their club team.

It shouldn't come as a surprise to know that the author of the book on which The Beach is based, Alex Garland (Sunshine), would be the screenwriter for 28 Days Later, and by Boyle sticking closer to the source material, a much more effective result has been achieved.

However, it may come as a surprise to know that the apartment markets in smaller Georgia cities such as Athens, Augusta and Savannah are drawing a relatively high level of investor interest as well.

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Is it surprising that a four - star admiral known as the world's deadliest man begins by telling you the same thing that your mom probably got after you to do as a little kid?

All of the interviewed students who knew Minassian found the news of his arrest surprising, though a few described him to The Globe and Mail as having trouble speaking and physical tics.

At this point, I get surprised when a guest — no matter how established — doesn't mention learning and continuing to stay teachable as a key to her success.

It came as a surprise to some who know or have worked with Joanna Hendon that she would represent President Donald Trump in the case against his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen.

Since Plantronics is known for its traditional Bluetooth headsets, it probably isn't surprising to hear that the Fit gets great call quality as well.

In contrast to Tosi's departure, it was well known the company had been looking for a COO, and the elevation of Johnson should not surprise anyone familiar with the behind - the - scenes leader seen as Chesky's most trusted adviser.

The first: 70 percent of consumers prefer getting to know a company via content marketing rather than ads, but (and this is the surprising part) brands spend more on advertising than on content such as articles, according to ContentPlus.

As start - ups continue to sprout up, you may be surprised to know that most are using their own cash, instead of taking out business loans to keep their business afloat.

I suspect we all know the answer to that question, but if the answer is, in fact, yes, then, as before, we should not be surprised if other nations are hacking our own parties» infrastructures.

So it was no surprise, to me or anyone who knows him, when years later he was recruited by President Barack Obama to serve as the White House chief of staff.

Knowing I was injecting enough surprise in the schedule itself, I stuck to the CBC's dry - as - toast format of years past in presenting it (on Mondays at eight, we'll have this... at eight - thirty, we'll have that...).

I answered the door and was surprised to meet a well - dressed man and woman who introduced themselves as agents of a well - known American federal agency that investigates terrorism, counterintelligence, cybercrime, public corruption, civil rights, organised crime, white - collar crime, violent crime and weapons of mass destruction (and which shall remain unnamed here).

When he started to discuss they PC does portfolio management I was surprised as I did not even know they did that.

I think it is difficult to know where the next crisis will come from, and, in general, it is better to have a system that is safe from errors in judgment and surprise than it is to try and avoid errors in judgment and surprises because as along as you are dealing with human beings, there will be errors and surprises.

Simon - Thomas, who co-authored the international friendships study with Facebook and Kogan, said that Kogan was known as a trustworthy a researcher and mathematician and that she was surprised to see him in the news.

«Adam Smith» probably wouldn't be surprised to know his book is still just as relevant fifty years later because in The Money Game, he references...

As for the fork and what strategy to use for maximum profit right now, I am not going to pretend to know what will happen with the fork, BCH and BTC over the next few weeks as some of this has caught everyone by surprisAs for the fork and what strategy to use for maximum profit right now, I am not going to pretend to know what will happen with the fork, BCH and BTC over the next few weeks as some of this has caught everyone by surprisas some of this has caught everyone by surprise.

Just be on the lookout for any surprises in the data as that has been known to happen from time to time.

As intuitive as this specific search function is, you'd be surprised to know only a handful of major e-commerce sites and marketplaces have iAs intuitive as this specific search function is, you'd be surprised to know only a handful of major e-commerce sites and marketplaces have ias this specific search function is, you'd be surprised to know only a handful of major e-commerce sites and marketplaces have it.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

In a study that comes as a surprise to approximately no Christian under the age of 40, the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project says technology use among religious people is no different than among anybody else.

This should come as no surprise to those who know me.

I don't know how that can come as a great surprise to anyone with much experience in human friendship, whether same - sex or different - sex.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that many of those who do in fact leave the Church over issues related to sexuality do so because they've been told over and over again that their value as a Christian, and as a human being, is wrapped up in their virginity, so they no longer feel welcomed or worthy.

As the investigation continues to unravel the seeming paradox of how two apparently normal young men could commit acts of violence, classmates, neighbors and relatives of those who knew them have expressed surprise and disbelief.

To cite a present - day example: Many people were not at all surprised at the report (in January, 1968; whether the report was correct I do not know) that so noted a theologian as Helmut Thielicke had called on a number of officer - candidates to prevent leftist students from disrupting the worship service at a Hamburg church by their demonstrationTo cite a present - day example: Many people were not at all surprised at the report (in January, 1968; whether the report was correct I do not know) that so noted a theologian as Helmut Thielicke had called on a number of officer - candidates to prevent leftist students from disrupting the worship service at a Hamburg church by their demonstrationto prevent leftist students from disrupting the worship service at a Hamburg church by their demonstrations.

No matter how much we hear that or believe it to be true, it still comes as a surprise.

Also, I don't know if what you said about fruit flies is true or not (knowing you probably not) but if it is that wouldn't be all that surprising as the new fruit flies would have evolved so that they could survive their new surroundings which were probably much different than «the wild» thus they would no longer be able to survive in «the wild»

You might be surprised to learn things that the current bible as you know it today doesn't teach you about him!

@Pete: that wouldn't be all that surprising as the new fruit flies would have evolved so that they could survive their new surroundings which were probably much different than «the wild» thus they would no longer be able to survive in «the wild»

But despite the Vatican's statement that implied that the publication of the interview was a surprise to them, the pope knew Scalfari reconstructs conversations — because he and Scalfari are close friends, and Scalfari has reconstructed parts of their conversations before as interviews.

Yet it comes as no surprise to anyone who knows Church history and understands anthropology.

Those who bewail the abstractions of theology teachers will be surprised to know of these churchly concerns in systematics classes, as will the Atlantic readers who were recently led to believe that «the hands that shape the souls» of the next generation of pastors do not hold hymnals.

Longtime readers know of my obsession with mathematical beauty, so it should come as no surprise to find me hopping up and down most eagerly and pointing you towards Matthew Milliner's very immodest proposal in Public Discourse.

Even though such feelings on the part of the Islamic extremists were well known to the leaders in the USA and the rest of the world from the earlier incidents, like, the bombing of the World Trade Center in1993, the bomb attacks on USA embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar - es - Salaam in Tanzania in 1998, and the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000, the incident of September11 came as a total surprise.

It shouldn't come as any surprise to our regular readers as we know I've talked about atheism quite a bit.

Bishop said... «Though we are not yet at the point of knowing for certain who did this horrible crime it would come as no surprise to any intelligent person if the individual or individuals responsible are the nutters with the NRA and the Tea Party Republicans.»

Though we are not yet at the point of knowing for certain who did this horrible crime it would come as no surprise to any intelligent person if the individual or individuals responsible are the nutters with the NRA and the Tea Party Republicans.

Since the twentieth century worked out its initial attitude toward the «historical Jesus» in terms of the only available reconstruction, that of the nineteenth century with all its glaring limitations, it is not surprising to find as a second consequence a tendency to disassociate the expression «the historical Jesus» from «Jesus of Nazareth as he actually was», and to reserve the expression for: «What can be known of Jesus of Nazareth by means of the scientific methods of the historian».

Of course, men had come to recognize the way some things usually happened — as children know that stones thrown in the air customarily fall to the ground, so that they would be surprised if a stone failed to do that.

human language has not found the words to express the pleasure, the joy, the surprising awakening to another world, that god exists, that he lives and loves me, the missing part, the answer to all questions with one touch, to see life as it is and as it should be, and to do nothing to have entered into this dimension except to ask, to beg, to plead with all one's strength - merely to know him, if he is there.

If the only version of God some people know is the one heard in Sunday School, it may come as a surprise for them to realise that viewing God as a symbol is possible within the church context.

I came to that somewhat surprising conclusion while talking to Jesuit priests who lived with the future Pope, then known as the Rev. Jorge Bergoglio, during the early 1980s.

There are fewer references to Islam; which is surprising in view of the importance of this religion for the history of India.10 He rarely refers to what is known as the tribal national religion and the «primitive» cults.

This is the reversal of expectation that in literature we know as peripety, that unsettling surprise that, however it may threaten the perceived universe of a particular character, ultimately serves the achieved order of the work, which may be said to thrive on the disorder that opposes a simplistic solution to problems of plot, character, and theme.

I know so little, so although I came down on the university here, if she went to the University as a lesbian, and knew that they had a stance against her sexual orientation, it probably should not have been a surprise to her when they refused to graduate her.

This is particularly surprising for us today, for we tend to know Burke, when we do, as the father of modern conservatism, while we have come to understand America's founding principles as resolutely liberal and progressive.