Sentences with phrase «bolt from the blue»

What he said came as a sort of bolt from the blue.

I can only imagine one event that might help: a positive bolt from the blue, one that reduces government spending and raises government revenue.

The Chargers came away with a 24 - 21 victory, and the only two major things to happen, according to the folks over at Bolts from the Blue, SB Nation's Chargers site, was that his was likely the last game of Norv Turner's head coaching career in San Diego and the possible emergence of Raiders quarterback Terrelle Prior.

Then there are occasional bolts from the blue like 9/11, which in short order led us to spend multiple trillions on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and smaller involvements elsewhere.

A real bolt from the blue, right!?

Hailed by some as a game - changing bolt from the blue and dismissed by others as too little too late, their announcement is the most visible test to date of a new set of rules that climate - change negotiators established in Warsaw last year — rules that began with one word that changed everything.

We're now up to the Los Angeles Chargers, with the pick coming from Richard Wade of Bolts from the Blue.

For now, though, the guys over at Bolts from the Blue are going to sit back, wait on some draft news and monitor news on Turner's firing being official.

He told the BBC: «Don't think that by not going to church because you are infected somehow there will be a bolt from the blue really smashing your head.»

(CNN)- The announcement of the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI came as a bolt from the blue to the world but not a moment too soon for many Catholics.

A revelation in Mormondom rarely comes as a bolt from the blue; the process involves asking questions and getting answers.

Dr. DuBose said that God will not work in spite of us, but in us and through us; and often enough our problems about prayer are really caused by our assumption that prayer is answered by some bolt from the blue which contradicts everything that we have ever done, ever known, ever thought.

It is not a bolt from the blue, a moment of rare liberation for Catholic biblical scholars.

Of course, the bolt from the blue would be a Chinese buyer or another new entrant willing to part with $ 1 billion or more to get a foothold on the Australian market.

All the passion of this fixture was on display at Anfield earlier this season, when Steven Gerrard put the Reds ahead, only for Phil Jagialka's bolt from the blue to draw the visitors level.

SB Nation's Chargers blog, Bolts From The Blue, is unhappy with how little heart the team showed on Sunday.

For more on the Chargers, check out Bolts From The Blue.

This is either a bolt from the blue, or it is the worst journalism I have ever seen.

It wasn't a bolt from the blue in Sept 2013.

It was a bolt from the blue.

Indeed, Pedro Obiang's opener was a bolt from the blue, a very similar effort to Sonny's that flew into the top corner from 30 yards.

Eder's goal in the 88th - minute was a bolt from the blue.

Arsenal in a way mirror how the blues were swept aside by the spud.The latter were more directand the 2nd goal was bolt from the blue.

While Chelsea are known for extravagant prices that they pay, this thing came out like a bolt from the blue.

It really was a bolt from the blue.

The first rule is that a reshuffle should «come as a complete surprise, preferably a bolt from the bluest of skies».

But some Tory MPs, who were only told of the plan last night, were angry and said it came as «a bolt from the blue».

Memories can fade, so it is worth reminding ourselves about the 2013 local elections because they show that what happened in the 2014 locals this week was not a bolt from the blue.

Mr Farage, speaking to ITV News Deputy Political Editor Chris Ship earlier on Tuesday, said that the news had come as a «bolt from the blue».

Gierè and his colleagues set out to show that the bolts from the blue could also generate the extreme pressures needed to shock quartz.

According to Joop Hovenier of the Free University in Amsterdam, the decision to cancel Venus Express came like a bolt from the blue.

Proof of the Higgs» existence will not arrive as a bolt from the blue — instead, it will emerge slowly from weeks or months of data analysis, allowing ample time for each tantalizing step to be documented on blogs.

As much as it seemed like a bolt from the blue, the UK spaceport plan is the result of a three - year review of spaceplanes and their potential by the UKSA, the Civil Aviation Authority and the Department for Transport.

In other words, major innovations occur not when an inventor is struck by a bolt from the blue, but when the scientific and social conditions are ripe.

But «Family Guy» isn't a bolt from the blue.

The original Hangover hit like a bolt from the blue.

Jail is truly a film which has several layers of bolt from the blue.

In an era when the only 4 × 4 options were pickup trucks and Jeeps, this was a bolt from the blue.

Then the answer came like a bolt from the blue.

And lo, the Kindle came unto us in 2007, and the early adopters rejoiced, and the Big - Six - Now - Five gnashed their teeth, and thousands of authors had a psychedelic freakout because — like a bolt from the blue — there now existed a low - cost way to publish and sell their stories to a curious, engaged, and an (Almighty Bezos willing) ever - growing audience.

I don't see things changing soon, absent a bolt from the blue.

After ten years, it really was a bolt from the blue.

But the huge sales the cook -»em - up enjoyed were a bolt from the blue.

Like a bolt from the blue, I, 3DO Kid, 3DO fanboy extraordinaire, have had an epiphany.