Sentences with phrase «surprised at the strength»

«Once we started planning the event, we were surprised at the strength of the local Scandinavian population and its many clubs,» said Nancy Radtke, special projects coordinator for the park district.

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«I put her in the transport portfolio 11 years ago, she immediately took to it, and I suppose she surprised a lot of people at how well she did in that major portfolio and from there she's gone from strength to strength,» Mr Debnam told The Australian Financial Review.

After Arsene Wenger described the 20 - year old as one of the big surprises of the season, praising his mentality for pushing on and showing mental strength after some early struggles as well as the quality of his recent performances, the young Gunner has reinforced his position at the club with his warm words.

Stubborn is a word that Arsenal fans have often used to describe our long serving manager so it was no great surprise to hear Arsene Wenger talking about his belief that there is enough strength in depth in the Arsenal squad to be able to cope with the injury picked up by Francis Coquelin at the weekend.

At the core of his surprise performance is strength that makes him difficult to slow and stop.

If we were to look back to our loss at White hart lane and our previous game against Spurs, one would notice Bale trouncing Sagna mercilessly with both his pace and physical strength and I was terrified that the same would occur on the return fixture at home but I was pleasantly surprised.

Twice, the Republican conference foiled her, the first time through its alliance with the Independent Democratic Conference, then through surprising strength at the midterm polls last year.

While insiders and observers were surprised by the strength of Assini's campaign, he did not seem at all taken aback by it, saying: «I knew, but I don't think the other side knew it until the end.

«We were not expecting to find an enhancer, and we were even more surprised about the strength,» says report co-author Frank Kirchhoff, a virologist at the University of Ulm Clinic in Germany.

More surprises came from preliminary measurements of Jupiter's gravitational field (that is, the strength and direction of the planet's gravity at different points in space).

«We suspected that lianas might have a negative effect on tree reproduction, but the strength of the effect, only five years after cutting the lianas, was surprising» said Maria Garcia León, the lead author, who began working with Schnitzer as an undergraduate at the University of Panama and is now operations manager for the Schnitzer lab.

it's taken a bit of a mental re-adjustment to tone down the volume, but was surprised at the advances in technique and strength i have made since.

Aim for three reps.. You will be unpleasantly surprised at how terrible this is, but it will help build strength in various arm positions which will carry over into your grappling sessions.

Like «Django Unchained,» which entered the race late last year and surprised some by the strength it showed at the Oscars, «Wolf» still has time to make its mark.

(Frankly, we're a bit surprised it sold that many, especially considering the strength of the competition, the age of the car and the overall state of affairs at the struggling automaker.

Don't say «I couldn't bear it;» you may be surprised at your own strength.

It's really the most fitting game to send off the Wii from its parent company; it looks at the strengths of the system, the weaknesses of the hardware, and addresses it all in ways that continue to surprise the player until the credits roll - and yes, by the end of it, you'll have changed your views on motion controls (unless you liked them - in which case, you'll like them more).

And what's truly surprising is the depth of logic at play while navigating the sea of sudden possibilities that shows the complete lack of inhibition proving one of Nintendo EAD's greatest design strengths.

It's no surprise that the competitive scene gave Rayquaza its own tier at the very top, as Mega Rayquaza can simply shatter any opposition with this level of strength.

Far from an encyclopedic view of American art of the period, the exhibition is a focused look at the strengths and surprises of MoMA's collection in an area that has played a major role in the institution's history.

By being well prepared, our Kansas and Missouri personal injury attorneys at law firm Ketchmark and McCreight, P.C. give further strength to your case and lessen the possibility that there will be surprises in the courtroom.

After the Divisional Court's decision, on account both of what I thought were the strengths of the respective arguments and of the court's decision, I wrote that it would be surprising if the government's lawyers gave ministers any great hope of the decision being reversed and that the government could even be looking at losing 11 - 0 («Art 50: the verdict», NLJ, 11 November, p 9).

There are surprising ways family and career overlap and most of it has to do with the strengths we developed at home.

After originally not agreeing to a mediated consent determination, mediation was given further impetus by an early evidence hearing at the conclusion of which Justice North expressed surprise at the lack of progress in negotiation given the strength of the evidence.