Sentences with phrase «surprising degree»

The paper garnered a pleasantly surprising degree of attention, mainly from Democrats, but by early 2012 was all but forgotten.

Mick commented: «My fellow panel members and I enjoyed the discussion with a well - informed audience, and found a pleasantly surprising degree of consensus on issues such as disclosure that affect our industry».

«What we found was the somewhat surprising degree to which the winds can explain all the wiggles in the temperature curve,» said lead author Jim Johnstone, who did the work while a climatologist at the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean at the University of Washington.

With over 80 million subscribers today, Hunt says Netflix has an «unprecedented» level of data that «helps us decide the kinds of shows / movies we should make, and we can predict an audience for them with a surprising degree of certainty.»

This surprising degree of customer loyalty can have an enormous impact on website profitability.

A surprising degree of what makes a person and / or business successful is imo is how they interact with people.

Tietjen maintains a surprising degree of objectivity throughout the book, perhaps because he has gained some distance from the traumatic events of the 1970s.

Associate pastors may also enjoy a surprising degree of freedom (as Chris Smith argues in Leadership magazine).

When Gallup asks teens why they became involved, the answers reveal a surprising degree of depth.

To a surprising degree the answer is Yes.

These statements represent a surprising degree of unanimity of Christian thought in an area where precise unanimity is impossible, and where an authoritarian word even if obtainable would to the Protestant mind be undesirable.

The redaction critics have discovered a surprising degree of theological sophistication as well as a previously unsuspected degree of coherence in each of the Gospels, but the method is severely limited by its inherited inclination to view the Gospels essentially as edited collections of traditional material.

Yeah, respond to one of the few cases where people of one religion A behave with a surprising degree of respect to a radical member of your own religion B by haughtily saying that God doesn't hear the prayers of adherents of religion A, only those of religion B.

For a team protecting an unbeaten record that now stretches to 543 days, France will approach Wednesday night's friendly against Germany in Bremen with a surprising degree of uncertainty.

Life has gone on as normal, to a surprising degree really, under the coalition.

Labour's approach to ignoring this surprising degree of proximity between the two positions has been to present the press with some rather explosive nitty - gritty.

The deep look into the genes of transmitted H5N1 viruses also reveals the surprising degree to which the virus can mutate and genetically diversify in each infected host, a troubling trait for a pathogen that has so far infected 637 people, killing 378.

OUR PERCEPTION of the world depends, to a surprising degree, on intelligent guesswork by the brain.

And in a separate study, researchers have already used the sequence to chart a surprising degree of genetic variation among women.

Yet its «methane cycle» of surface condensation and precipitation parallels Earth's water cycle to a surprising degree.

You get a sense from the fact that they've been moving ahead relatively quickly — they've been doing some new things with a surprising degree of success.

A pizza peel consists of little more than a flat blade attached to the end of a long pole, but it gives the chef a surprising degree of control over the pizza.

TSRI Assistant Professor Brock Grill and his team show the surprising degree to which RPM - 1 harnesses sophisticated mechanisms to regulate neuron development.

The latest encounter with a comet's core has proven that point to a surprising degree.

A new generation of experiments reveals that group - living animals have a surprising degree of intelligence.

«These data go a long way toward illustrating that the star really did blow up inside - out to a surprising degree,» says astronomer Robert Fesen of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Only about two - thirds of these were present in all eight strains, revealing a surprising degree of heterogeneity in GBS genomes, says infectious disease physician Lawrence Madoff of Harvard Medical School, a co-author.

«What I find most interesting is the surprising degree of coordination among them, on a scale of time that is so short — like down to a second,» says applied mathematician Steven Strogatz of Cornell University, who was not involved in the study.

Cosmic inflation is a compelling theory, with roots that go back more than 30 years, that explains why the universe displays a surprising degree of uniformity in every direction we look.

This dish is essentially shrimp Creole with the addition of curry powder, which elevates it by a surprising degree.

For some, the clear - cut arrangement leaves little room for doubt, jealousness, and insecurity, with the result being a surprising degree of stability and satisfaction within the relationship.

More engaging than the soft - soaped first installment, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is a little too bogged down by tedium and a surprising degree of stiffness to be more than a modest improvement.

It's a remarkably apt curtain - raiser: hilarious, but with a vein of tragedy that will consistently characterize — and deepen — the film to a surprising degree.

Brolin brings a surprising degree of depth to a character who, after years of teases since his first appearance after the credits of 2012's The Avengers, could easily have been played with one, snarling note.

In many ways, it's the same slasher we know from John Carpenter's original movie, perhaps to a surprising degree of paying attention to continuity and detail.

His films integrate action and emotion to a surprising degree, often with an accompanying earned intellectual response.

-- Advisory: Sex jokes, coarseness and a surprising degree of violence, including the «Narnia» faun getting shot about six times at point - blank range.

Outside of combat, you'll have to care for these creatures to a surprising degree.

The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling upholding the Cleveland voucher program has rejuvenated the school choice movement and, to a surprising degree, reinvigorated the debate over how best to improve the education of all the nation's schoolchildren.

«You'd be surprised the degree to which my Ed School experience is an integral part of my working life now,» says Lafargue, citing the critical thinking skills she gained, as well as the lessons from psychology classes that have provided insight into how people behave and how Washington can help.

Standard offers a surprising degree of compliance, soaking up the worst lumps, bumps and potholes although you can hear the rear suspension's race - style rose - joints working away.

There's still plenty to appreciate in the SQ5's chassis however, including a surprising degree of balance across both axles (like other recent Audis, the SQ5 seems to be moving away from the old tropes of nose - heaviness), strong levels of grip, and a pliant ride quality (with the usual caveat that we're yet to test the car on rougher UK tarmac).

The 2017 McLaren 570GT is the latest addition to the British marque's Sports Series, promising not only blistering performance when you plant your right foot but a surprising degree of practicality and refinement in the process.

All this engineering and electronic goodness permits the 5,672 - pound Bentley a surprising degree of nimbleness and neutral handling, while delivering the kind of smooth and stable ride one expects from a vehicle of this caliber.

A Certified Used Honda Accord Coupe can also be found with a surprising degree of luxury gear if the EX-L trim is selected.

The rear seats are a split, fold - down design for better cargo capacity, and when raised, actually provide room for 6 - footers to sit with a surprising degree of comfort.

The littlest Jeep manages to combine a healthy smear of Fiat's sense of humor with a surprising degree of practicality, especially in the just plain silly subcompact crossover segment.

She is currently going to Montgomery College for a surprise degree.

Cats, dogs and other animals have been integrated into humans» lives to a surprising degree: A child growing up in the United States today, for example, is more likely to have a pet than a father at home, according to the American Humane Association.