Sentences with phrase «blindsided last»

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And SNA's recent actions and statements have left a lot of people scratching their heads in dismay — including the First Lady, who seemed blindsided last year by SNA's about - face on the HHFKA standards.

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Last March, for example, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote that he had been blindsided by Trump's primary victory largely because he — like many in his profession — did not venture out beyond their own bubbles.

The rude awakening came last year, when the techies were blindsided by SOPA and PIPA, two Congressional bills that would have made Internet companies pay steep penalties for illegal downloads of music and video content on their sites.

The host refused to go to work starting last Wednesday after being blindsided by the news that her cohost Michael Strahan would be leaving the daytime show for a full - time job at «Good Morning America.»

When Trump made the announcement on tariffs last week, Cohn was blindsided.

Ryan then claimed that Sanders was «blindsided» by Rudy Guiliani's interview last night on Fox News in which he said that Trump reimbursed $ 130,000 to Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen for his payment to Stormy Daniels.

An entirely unprecedented loss, for the observer who had not watched Florida State lose to Clemson or Wake Forest last year on the road, or to N.C. State in 2010, or at Boston College in 2009, or at Georgia Tech in 2008, or any of their other blindside road defeats preventing FSU from attaining maximum «backness.»

Jacksonville may have gotten the best of the Steelers last week, but don't expect the Patriots to be blindsided on Sunday.

«This community finds itself once again blindsided with the last - minute announcement of yet another hotel conversion,» Congressman Joe Crowley wrote in a letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio last week that accused the administration of opening the site with «no prior notice, and zero community input.»

The speaker and the mayor have also sparred over the budget, with the speaker appearing to blindside the mayor with a last - minute maneuver this week meant to insure that immigrants facing deportation, even those convicted of serious crimes, get access to city - funded lawyers.

When asked if Mayor de Blasio was «blindsided» by the governor's 4:00 p.m. Friday announcement, he replied «no, I spoke to him about it last night.»

But the upstagings and rank - pullings kept coming — from Cuomo's blindsiding of de Blasio with an Ebola quarantine to a last - minute request for $ 1 billion more in city transit funding to sudden inspections of city homeless shelters — and the rewards kept diminishing.

Anthony Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin, was blindsided by her husband's return to sexting — and nearly ended their marriage last fall because of it, a close friend revealed Wednesday.

Cuomo, who has been attempting to recruit a candidate to run against de Blasio in next year's Democratic primary for mayor, blindsided Hizzoner last week with a state budget plan the mayor said would cost the city some $ 800 million — prompting a furious de Blasio to vow to kill the plan «by any means necessary.»

The verdict comes as Cuomo faces the possibility of a primary challenge from actress Cynthia Nixon, a potential scenario which appears to have blindsided the governor and his top aides last week, sending them scrambling into campaign mode.

Some biomedical research watchers are feeling blindsided by a federal appeals court decision last week that reversed a lower court's rejection of a lawsuit challenging the Obama Administration's stem cell policy.

After the last two years of being blindsided with taxes (the first year, my company didn't take the correct taxes out, and last year, I picked up my second job), I'm determined to be a little more prepared this year.

I was overwhelmed and blindsided by this experience and a more compassionate individual emerged, which lasted at least until I got home 30 minutes later.

Unassuming, blindsiding, and masterful in how subtly it shakes you to your core, Resolution, the debut feature from co-director Justin Benson & Aaron Moorehead, snuck onto the radar last year.

Having observed how record labels were blindsided by music downloading over the last decade, most book publishers are taking this risk seriously.

One of the more surprising iOS ports of recent times is undoubtedly Rome: Total War [$ 9.99 (HD)-RSB-, and when it was announced late last year I was truly blindsided by seeing such a legendary PC strategy classic on a tablet device.

Worth pointing out is that the company announced H1Z1's PS4 port this morning, which doesn't seem like the actions of a studio about to go up in flames — but then tell that to the CCP team blindsided at last year's EVE Vegas.

Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light developer 4A Games has confessed itself «blindsided» by negative reactions to the new Redux versions of both games.

The guys who designed the game seem to be totally blindsided by this; this seems like a case where Chevalier got in over his head, but when he saw the writing on the wall he kept trying to tread water, saying «it'll be okay, it'll be okay» and hoping for a last minute miracle.

If you were blindsided by a lavish counter offer, then rest assured, you're not the first, and you certainly won't be the last.

One of the issues for the court to consider was whether the seller had acted in good faith, and whether he was being unreasonable by first blindsiding the buyer with last - minute document requests, and then by refusing to allow the registration to take place on the Monday.

After spending months prepping for Christmas with my new best friend www.amazon.com, I was blindsided at the last moment by illness.