Sentences with phrase «came as a shock in»

But it still came as a shock in a country where the collective leadership established under Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s was once considered inviolable.

Such an accusation often comes as a shock in circumstances in which the parent that has removed the children to England and Wales has done so under the...

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Hala Moddelmog, who was president of Church's Chicken in the 1990s and Arby's from 2010 to 2013 — two Atlanta - based fast - food empires — said Goldman's announced expansion in Atlanta didn't come as a shock.

While the research has applications for marketers (highlight the ordinary to reach an older demographic and the extraordinary for younger people), it may also come as a comfort to bewildered folks in their mid-30s who are shocked by exactly how much they're enjoying routine experiences that would have bored their younger selves to tears (not to speak too much from personal experience).

News of this split came as a shock to many of their fans, in large part because the Dewan - Tatum relationship has been held up as the paragon of celebrity «couple goals» pretty much ever since the pair met on the set of «Step Up» in 2006.

It came as a shock to many when, in September, Google admitted to the SEC that some of its most important systems «are not fully redundant» — meaning if something breaks, your data may be gone.

In today's age of fake news, it probably doesn't come as a huge shock to you that false information might end up on the internet, but while posting utter nonsense has sadly come to be expected in the political realm, it's somewhat less expected in business reportinIn today's age of fake news, it probably doesn't come as a huge shock to you that false information might end up on the internet, but while posting utter nonsense has sadly come to be expected in the political realm, it's somewhat less expected in business reportinin the political realm, it's somewhat less expected in business reportinin business reporting.

«This will come as an additional shock to Toshiba «s institutional investors that may further undermine confidence in company management, as well as significantly weakening its international nuclear credentials,» said Tom O'Sullivan, founder of energy consultancy Mathyos Japan.

This may come as a shock, but organizational constructs like tribes, societies, and companies are not the result of high - level intelligence but of primitive survival impulses reinforced by neurotransmitters in the brain's ancient limbic system.

If you're not used to larger smartphones from Samsung and the like, cradling the larger iPhone 6 in one hand will come as a shock.

This occurred after shock - price implosions in 1986 when Brent fell to $ 9 per barrel (Riyadh deliberately flooded the market), in 1998 when Brent crashed to $ 10 (OPEC failed to see the Asian crisis coming and increased quotas as demand was falling); and in 2008 at $ 36 (amid the Great Recession).

While this may not come as a shock to many, Zak set out to understand why two people trust each other in the first place.

So, it didn't come as a shock when cheating rumors surfaced in 2013, alleging McDermott was cheating on Spelling.

But while the announcement is no - doubt shocking (as Police Chief Bill Blair remarked, «We have no historical precedent for doing that in Ontario), it comes on the heels of a similar move in numerous U.S. cities, where the axe has already fallen on those previously considered to be untouchable.

Given how important oil has been to the Canadian economy in recent years it shouldn't come as a huge shock that the loonie is heavily correlated with the decline in the price of oil.

This situation can come as a shock to borrowers who have a positive repayment history and suddenly find themselves in default.

In the book David Morgan and I co-authored, Second Chance: How to Make and Keep Big Money from the Coming Gold and Silver Shock - Wave, we discuss the «New Silk Road» this way:... the plan, described as an «economic partnership map with -LSB-...]

It can help get you to 100 % equity in your home fast — provided those higher monthly payments don't come as a shock.

It has come as no shock to many computer users that the prices of key components have increased in recent years, reversing what had for many years been a pattern of gradually dropping prices.

Nor should a steady uptick in interest rates, in tandem with the milder - but - steadier growth trajectory, come as a shock.

This is why it should not come as such a shock that the funding for the project is in jeopardy since Mr. Stelmach left office in early October.

This move has come as a shock to many observers, especially in the face of the Fed raising interest rates.

A central character's demise in the NBC drama initially came as a shock.

The reality of a hormonally driven maternal instinct, distinction in the behavior of girls and hoys at a very young age in spite of gender - neutral social engineering, and the revelation that you can't «have it all» have come as a deep shock to all of us.

Gary wrong again, Gary wrong again: I was a guest before this on this blog: Even check out Martin Zender; The World's most outspoken bible scholar facebook; You will find me there; he knows me, and his crew knows of me; Father has others too that have been with me for years that are not in my city through their ministries also that have come up along side of me, but I do not want you to come against them as they have their own trials to overcome, therefore; no names given there, they also know me and my testimony: I am God's workmanship therefore, I was brought up in Christ along side witnesses as His testimony: Gary; this is going to be shocking, but because God does not inform you of a thing, means to me, that He has kept very much from you: Now why would that be?

This may come as a shock to you — BUT - evolution could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in court — if it is a «Law» of science and not a theory explain to me why Scientist in the same field have differing opinions theory has undergone massive changes since the 1850's when Darwin first came up with the THEORY — there are a lot of interesting similarities to true science which makes it sound so plausible, but it should sound good — After all the top scientist / humanists in the world promote it and they are all pretty smart

In a May 30 letter to Catholics across the diocese, Bishop Lori said that the state's announcement came as a «shock» and that the church in Bridgeport had no choice but to act to protect its constitutional rightIn a May 30 letter to Catholics across the diocese, Bishop Lori said that the state's announcement came as a «shock» and that the church in Bridgeport had no choice but to act to protect its constitutional rightin Bridgeport had no choice but to act to protect its constitutional rights.

This came as a shock to Mitchell, not just as a devotee but because he thought Democracy in America would be the perfect book for their national predicaments.

It must come as something of a shock to many of these people to realize that over the last yen years the bulk of his time has been spent in a ministry whose chief work is preaching, baptizing, celebrating the Eucharist, teaching, counseling the troubled, comforting the sick and bereaved.

The incident came as a shock to locals as such incidents haven't happened before in the province of South Sumatra.

It shouldn't come as a shock to me because even when I read back in my journals that go all the way back to 1986, I am overwhelmed with how much the same I am.

In her case, the shock came when, two years into membership, she was told she could not lead a small covenant group of eight married couples because, as a woman, she could not be allowed to have spiritual authority over a man.

Wouldn't it come as a baffling shock if Christians everywhere put down their picket signs, ceased the boycotts, dropped the Christmas lawsuits, and instead, showered politicians, business owners, and ACLU workers that show disdain for Christmas / Christians with thoughtful gifts, invitations to OUR Christmas celebrations, letters of prayers, (not condemning ones), asking nothing in return?

Akira i know this will come as a shock to you; however, all the «dinosaurs» you see in «natural history» museums are cast from plaster and that's a fact.

From personal experience i was in a church who has the whole congregation pray for 1/2 hour in tongues.The people in this church were leaders from Africa.A place who sees more supernatural then us because we feel the need to analyze the thing to death.When we did the atmosphere shifted lives were changed.When i was on a mission trip to Mexico i felt lead to go pray with the women who in that culture are outcasts one of ladies who came with me started singing in the spirit as i was we stopped each other in shock when we realized we were sing the same song the needs of the women were met with out an interrupter.

The idea that this planted in my mind was the realization, which came as something of a shock, that not all the supreme values pursued by mankind now and in the past were necessarily compatible with one another.

What might come as shocking news to you is that all the Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the world pray to the same God.

Thus the shock of recognizing their status as a drop in a bucket might have come to them a bit later than to others of their fellow Jews living more scattered throughout the country.

So «if all Christians must surrender their bodies to God in Christ whenever they enter the fellowship of Christ's body,» he concludes, «'' then it should come as no great shock that God might actually make demands of those Christians and their bodies — demands proving that God, and God alone, has authority over us.»

It comes, therefore, as a shock to the reader of the Phaedrus, on many grounds a later dialogue than the Republic, Phaedo, and Symposium, 1 to find Socrates reasserting the divinity of Eros, recanting as impious, the speech he had just made in praise of the nonlover.

Since it has always been a main contention of orthodox religion that God represents the very standard and meaning of morality, it comes as a shock to confront a view in which God and morals seem to fail apart and to be separate.

Ideology, seen from within, has no outside; in this sense one does not transgress its outer limits as one crosses a geographical boundary... It is impossible to come to its frontiers from within... in discovering its demarcations, ideology discovers its self - dissolution; it can not survive the «culture shock» consequent on its stumbling into alien territory adjacent to itself....

Saying that their thinking was futile may have come as quite a shock to the average reader in Paul's day.

May we in that day hear the noise and the shaking, as the shock wave of the great reversal races through the universe, bones coming together, and the sinews and skin, and the wind, and finally, we stand upright on our feet.

My colleagues were in shock at first and are still getting used to me coming to work and leaving first instead of last as I used to.

Two recipes come to mind as those that shock home cooks the first time they make them: mashed potatoes, for how much cream and butter is used, and granola, which also has a surprising amount of fat and much more sugar than expected in a healthful snack or breakfast.

This might come as a shock but I have never had a parfait before in my life and whenever I hear the word, I always think of DONKEY from Shrek!

Whether you're celebrating the 4th of July in the U.S. or Canada Day on July 1st, the blazing heat always comes as a shock as the calendars flip to July.

I was hesitant to do that as the card that came from the maker indicated this is high fired pottery which means it could be affected by sudden changes in temperature (thermal shock).

happy he loved it so much as we are eating it again tomorrow night Oh and his # 1 is a full fat chicken and dumplings recipe so I was shocked this came in 2nd.