Sentences with phrase «big surprise to any of»

The big day from Hu wasn't a big surprise to any of the Wildcats, as she's come in under par in each of their 18 - hole tournaments this season.

This news may not come as a big surprise to those of you who have been following the news in the media, but I want to personally make sure that everyone knows what has been decided as well as the basis for the decision.

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Having those multiple partners is key, because one of the big risks any small biotech faces is that the partner decides to walk away from its development program — not surprising, since most drug development programs fail.

That result might seem surprising given the recent headlines declaring the demise of Canadian law firms (not to mention the hordes of law grads struggling to find articling positions), but lawyers are big earners, and over the past five years their numbers have swollen by 10,000.

Yesterday, Microsoft woke up to a lot of anger and frustration from Windows users that probably came as a big surprise.

And the amount of muscle you have to put into a book is the biggest surprise for most first - time authors.

«Amazon's been signaling for about one or two years that they're going to make big bets, because they can, because they've got the cash flow to do it, so that makes this less of a surprise,» said Mahaney, an analyst at RBC Capital.

«Perhaps the bigger surprise,» he said in a commentary, «is that one of the company's able lieutenants was not immediately promoted to the position.»

Lancaster says many entrepreneurs are surprised to find that bigger versions of their businesses don't necessarily yield bigger returns.

One of the biggest hacking threats to companies and to customers» sensitive data comes from a surprising source without a computer's help.

If it seems a stretch to apply the experiences of a radical second - wave feminist to the business world, consider that a surprising number of companies — big and small — are today opting to operate as ersatz capitalist communes.

Given the open - yet - reliable nature of blockchain systems, it isn't surprising to hear that stock exchanges now consider it as the next big leap forward.

«The Walking Dead» TV show differs from the comic books in a lot of big ways, but also stays faithful to the series in other surprising areas.

If Twitter can successfully pivot to broadcast network, it wouldn't be surprising for an acquisition by one of the big six media companies.

«It smacks a bit of the Bank of Scotland (HBOS) / Lloyds where you never know how much pressure is put on the biggest bank in Spain by the central bank so I'd be surprised if they had agreed to it under duress but that will come out,» he said.

The big benefit from planning for taxes is twofold: You're less likely to be surprised by a tax bill and also will know how much of your earnings actually are available to you.

And, to our surprise, these previously ignored behavioral differences across CEOs have quite a large association with firm productivity, about one - fifth as big as the impact of a firm's capital inputs (machinery, equipment, buildings, and so on).

Parking tickets are a big source of income for many governments, so it's not surprising to see the village attempt to force Ms. Cammelleri, and likely other drives, to pay up even though the mistake was on their part.

So nobody should be surprised by the big headline out of Wednesday night's debate: that Trump would not commit to accepting the results of the election if he loses.

Many of the counties with the highest net immigration relative to their 2016 population come as no surprise — counties in and around the big cities in the Northeast, in South Florida, and along the Texas border all saw a large amount of population growth from immigration.

Again, think back and think big — it might feel like you don't have this kind of experience, but when you start to drill down you might be surprised at what's applicable.

Big data is driving the frenzy of medical M&A — and here's a surprise: Patients may turn out to be the biggest winners.

One of the biggest wild cards when it comes to expenses is dental care, they explain: «It's something that not too many people think about, and without dental insurance, you could end up with a $ 3,000 t0 $ 5,000 surprise dental expense.»

With benefits that big, it seems surprising how few of us have heard of interleaving, but PsyBlog explains that up to now, knowledge of the technique has largely been confined to professors and scientists.

For bigger - picture tasks, breaks can allow your subconscious mind to mull the problem, and the «set shifting» of doing a different type of work — like playing with Lego — can yield surprising bursts of insight and perspective.

Caring for aging boomers will be a big business, and there's an opportunity to create a subscription business whereby kids and grandkids send older relatives a surprise box of goodies to let them know people are thinking of them.

Some of the numbers weren't a big surprise, given the company's financial forecast in March, when the company said it expects to hit as many as 96 million subscribers this year.

«What has surprised me over time is her willingness to take big leaps,» said one of Birgisson's mentors, Lauren Whitehurst, who founded Sidekick Consulting.

So when one of its biggest spokesjocks has slowly, somewhat quietly, built his reputation back up within the sport to regain the top spot, is it really a surprise that Nike would use it as an opportunity to tweak the doubters?

It was a delight, and the fact that it was a surprise, that I had no way to anticipate it, is a big part of what bowled me over.

The Republican presidential hopeful's strong third - place finish was the big surprise of Monday's contest in Iowa to help choose the party nominee.

Expect 2016 to be a year when the big dogs swallow some of their competition — and where Apple rolls out some more bold surprises.

That was no surprise to Next Big Sound, which had Azalea on its end - of - 2013 list of artists most likely to hit the Billboard Hot 100 in 2014.

So is it any surprise big brewers are making a practice of either buying microbreweries outright (as Sleeman did with Quebec's Unibroue in 2004, only to be swallowed by Sapporo in 2006) or, more recently, by launching their own «craft breweries» (as Moosehead did when it launched Brampton, Ont.

Regardless of Microsoft's motivations, the rumored deal is surprising given that Mojang's founder, Markus «Notch» Persson, has routinely criticized big corporations (including Microsoft) for failing to support indie developers.

All told, there were no surprises with the Big Boss — it's exactly what it says it is: a bigger chicken sandwich, and there's nothing wrong with that to people for whom a single piece of chicken simply won't do.

«This ought not to be a big surprise, given the pace of recovery we have seen and time horizon for the QE program, but it has nevertheless given euro bulls a reason to be more confident,» Neil Wilson, analyst at ETX Capital said in a note.

Though the biggest takeaway here is this: Whoever came up with this spent a lot of time thinking about how people think while shopping — and it led them to make surprising decisions.

So is it really a big surprise that Russia is using Cold War tactics paired with new technology to influence the US election considering how big of stakes are on the line?

By far the biggest revision, on a percentage basis, came in the mining sector, which isn't surprising; the oil and gas industry, which is part of the mining sector, has been extremely volatile in the past year due to tumbling oil prices.

«The biggest surprise coming out of the quarter was the ability to accelerate advertising revenue growth,» said analyst James Cakmak of Monness, Crespi, Hardt & Co. «That is a testament to the demand for their platform by advertisers.»

In the spring of 2001, to the surprise of his colleagues, Seo left his big Wall Street firm and opened a hedge fund — which, he announced, wouldn't charge its investors the standard 2 percent of assets and 20 percent of returns but a lower, flat fee.

Thanks to the billionaire's surprise election win, investors around the world have been frantically trying to do just that — look beyond the present and peer into the future, trying to get a handle on just how financial markets might behave with Trump at the reins of the world's biggest economy.

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The kindness of Avery Huddleston, 7, led to a bigger surprise than anyone imagined at a school in the city of Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.

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The intensity of the explosions and fires at Lac - Mégantic, he said, came as a «big surprise» to him and other researchers, given that the tank cars had been carrying crude oil, rather than a more volatile form like gasoline.

At this point, the PWC - approved clean audit seems to clear a path forward, though the galloping change at the company (POLITICO: «Between the lines of today's big Tribune reshuffle») may provide future surprises.

And given the importance of America's auto industry to the U.S. economy, it's not a big surprise that Vice President Joe Biden and at least three cabinet officials are also expected to attend NAIAS.