Sentences with phrase «hardly come as a surprise»

This hardly comes as a surprise, as much of his advice revolves around positive interactions with these people.

That Europe would be quicker to act on regulating Facebook and other tech companies hardly comes as a surprise.

Though I suppose that hardly comes as a surprise to you.

The transfer of the French central midfielder to the Emirates, where he will join his international team mates Laurent Koscielny, Olivier Giroud and Mathieu Debuchy, hardly comes as a surprise because there has been a torrent of Arsenal transfer rumours about the move ever since last summer.

This year's all - star game marked the first time in event history that there was not a starting center in the line - up, with the league instead opting for three forward spots — and this hardly comes as a surprise.

Casual bettors love to take winning teams, so it hardly comes as a surprise that the Packers have received overwhelming public support.

This hardly came as a surprise following last week's analysis which found that «Cinderella» teams (also known as public underdogs) have been extremely profitable to fade.

It hardly comes as a surprise though, many of those same officials surrounded Ms. Meng when she announced for Congress last month.

Perceptions of the candidates» performances at conference were pretty much in line with media reports (though that should hardly come as a surprise — most members would have seen the conference through the prism of the media).

KI's announcement will hardly come as a surprise to anyone, and I have nothing more to add that wasn't in the documents I submitted to the Swedish Justice Office earlier this year regarding both [Central Ethical Review Board] and KI's behaviour in this matter.

This hardly comes as a surprise, since cholesterol is the building block for all of your hormones, including sex ones.

This hardly comes as a surprise to anyone: if you swim or bathe in substance that is dangerous for reproduction, those substances are absorbed very easily on the testicles, where the male hormones are produced.

This should hardly come as a surprise.

In «The Actors», Caine gets the chance not only to play a struggling and slightly bitter thespian, but also to display his not - inconsiderable comic talent (having made us chortle heartily in both «Goldmember» and «Dirty Rotten Scoundrels», it hardly comes as a surprise that he knows how to produce a laugh or three).

This announcement hardly comes as a surprise since both Captain America and Morrigan have been present in previous games of the franchise, but it is good to have confirmation since fighting games sometimes switch out characters from their rosters.

This hardly comes as a surprise though, since Atlus (in Japan) hasn't revealed anything else since the October 23rd reveal.

Of course, their presence hardly comes as a surprise to Luke Callahan (Corey Sevier, reprising his role from the original)- who, despite his best efforts, just can't seem to convince anyone that there are tentacle - sprouting monsters running around town.

It subsequently goes without saying that one's interest tends to ebb and flow depending on who's on screen, which hardly comes as a surprise given the film's emphasis on the seedy world of the sex industry (ie some of these people are just egregiously sleazy).

This should hardly come as a surprise, as it's been the central argument of influential work by respected scholars like Linda Darling - Hammond and Richard Elmore for more than a decade.

This hardly comes as a surprise, as much as we miss the delicious clatter of Porsche's flat - sixes.

This transmission upgrade hardly comes as a surprise, as Chrysler has been rolling out this eight - speed across nearly all of its models powered by the same 5.7 - liter Hemi, including the Ram 1500, the Jeep Grand Cherokee, and the Dodge Durango.

For those who have ever tried to educate or entertain the young, this statistic will hardly comes as a surprise.

While that is a good piece of news, it should however hardly come as a surprise as all manufacturers big and small including even those hardly related to computing is now into making tablet PCs.

Impressive it sure is but going at the rate at which iPads continue to be picked up, this should hardly come as a surprise.

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For any Blackberry fans, the announcement of the Blackberry Bold 9900 at Blackberry World this morning in Orlando will hardly come as a surprise.

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To us, that hardly comes as surprise since we always stay there ourselves whenever we are in the city for business.

Though it will hardly come as a surprise for most people Activision have announced a Season Pass for Call of Duty: Ghosts will which give you access to a grand total of four map packs for the game.

The fact that Skyrim is taking the number one slot on my list should hardly come as surprise to any of you.

The Vita never really gained the support it needed both in content and marketing, so while sad, this step closer to the definitive end hardly comes as a surprise right now.

They should hardly come as a surprise to anyone who follows our site at all, but nonetheless, here they are:

They're one of the few players who are challenging Apple's iPhone right now, so it hardly comes as a surprise that Apple is trying to sue them.

Capcom remastered its hits before it was cool, so it hardly came as a surprise when another Street Fighter collection was announced — this time, the justification is the series» 30th anniversary.

It hardly came as a surprise that, in an industry so heavily dependent on physical appearance and sex appeal, young, vulnerable women would be victimized by powerful and unscrupulous men.

That then they resort to this type of «fair - balanced» piece as a form of damage control should hardly come as a surprise to anyone.

Given the gusto with which we've decimated the ocean's major fisheries stocks over the past half - century, it should hardly come as a surprise that we've been extremely wasteful in the process.

We belong to a millennial generation where owning a credit or debit card hardly comes as a surprise.

In the uncertain times in which we live, it hardly comes as a surprise that people find comfort and draw strength from the steady foundations upon whic...

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Musk's comment was hardly surprising: Tesla Motors, and, indeed, everything about Musk, has been consistently packaged, presented, and explained as Silicon Valley come calling on old - line industries.

So it shouldn't come as a big surprise that in his latest movie, the film's two monolith - like robots TARS and CASE had hardly any digital effects.

It can hardly come as a great surprise that when economic growth falls short year after year and when its beneficiaries are a small subset of the population, electorates turn surly.

Given today's florid emotionalism when it comes to discussing Wall Street finances, it hardly is surprising that the Angelides hearings do not dare venture into such territory as to ask whether the bottom 90 % of the U.S. economy might need to be bailed out with debt relief just as Wall Street's elites were.

I was impressed even last year by Soton so this comes hardly as a surprise.

The result was already decided when Juve's top scorer Paulo Dybala came on as a substitute, but the form he's in at the moment it was hardly surprising when he got in on the action.

It's hardly a surprise that Chelsea come into this game as big favourites.

This may or may not come as a surprise to you but even though she hardly ever fucks you, I guarantee that she masturbated most if not every week.

However, this was hardly surprising coming from that great bastion of West Country non-conformity, which elected an independent candidate as its inaugural mayor.

The move is hardly a surprise and comes more than a year after Gibson announced he would not seek re-election as he sought to grow the Republican Party in New York.