In a surprise development, Trotsky and most of the Iskra editors supported Martov and the Mensheviks while Plekhanov supported Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

A main character Twilly and himself both had attorney forbears who lived in Southern Florida, but the development in this area came as a surprise to him and his attorney father and grandfather.

By contrast, round characters are complex and undergo development, sometimes sufficiently to surprise the reader.

In 1997, when Bill Gates was asked what trend or development over the past 20 years had really caught him by surprise, his reply was: " Kaleida and Taligent had less impact than we expected.

On 24 August, it was announced the mission was to end in only 10 hours, a development which caught even the reporters of Radio Moscow by surprise.

For all these pursuits, it comes as no surprise that his best-known works are two voluminous books which attempt to map and systematize the development of the sciences, History of the Inductive Sciences ( 1837 ) and The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon Their History ( 1840 ).

In a surprise development, he snatches Julius ' weapon, and sends Tuppence and Jane via train to Sir James in London, while he remains behind with the unwilling Julius.

" J. J. got his big break as an artist for a comic book company, after years of the audience waiting for such a development ; his newly created character, DynoWoman, was based on Thelma ( much to her surprise and delight ).

The sleuth often forms a strong leading character, and the plots can include elements of drama, suspense, character development, uncertainty and surprise twists.

Studio insiders expected Romancing the Stone to flop ( to the point that, after viewing a rough cut of the film, the producers of the then under development Cocoon fired Zemeckis as director of that film ), but the film became a surprise hit.

Nelligan, Nicholson's wife, has a surprise development ( no, she doesn't turn into a werewolf ) that's nothing more than plot-convenient.

A surprise development during this phase was the removal of the suspended ceiling in early July.

This announcement was a surprise to Strategy First, and was very quickly vetoed by Richard Therrien, VP product development of SFI.

The groundbreaking results of these experiments took the world by surprise and quickly resulted in his development of the Beam Wireless Service for the British General Post Office.

The typhoon's rapid development took hundreds of vessels in the Gulf of Thailand by surprise, leading to 275 offshore fatalities.

: Entirely unprepared for such a development, I was completely taken by surprise ; but regaining my self-control, keeping my mind on the point of concentration.

Either narrative or thematic, this lyric verse introduces a situation or problem in line 1, development ( called a turn ) in line 2, and a strong conclusion beginning with a surprise ( a twist ) in line 3, which resolves tensions or questions raised by the other lines and provides a memorable ending.

However, in a surprise development, and after intense negotiations between Mexico, Chile and the United States at the third Ministerial Meeting of the Community of Democracies in Santiago, Chile, on 29 April, Colombian foreign minister Carolina Barco announced that Derbez was withdrawing his candidacy, " in order to prevent a breakdown of hemispheric relations ".

In a surprise development, the General Assembly of the CUD met on 22 October in the Hall of the NEBE in Addis Ababa, and elected new officials.

Capcom Japan's announcement of a sequel to Mega Man Zero 3 didn't come as much of a surprise, with the pattern of development news following the previous two Mega Man Zero games.

He looked around in surprise, then noticed that Fred Powell was clutching his chest.

The husband points the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To the blind brim with appetite, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from the table in surprise To let the dishes soak all night, '' ( Mary Jane asked herself if Meredith was blushing at this line, or was it the fire??

He was not going to lose the mission by default, and whatever reason Kayabashi had for bringing his little sight-seeing group to the mission, he was going to be in for a surprise.

When I arrived at Viola's I was shown, to my surprise, into the kitchen.

I dug around and found a mix, and was able to surprise them with a devil's-food cake with chocolate icing.

Although modern scholars have expressed surprise that `` the simple magic square of three '', a mere `` mathematical puzzle '', was able to exert a considerable influence on the minds and imaginations of the cultured Chinese for so many centuries, they could have found most of the answers right within the square itself.

One of those delightful surprise additions, which so frequently occur in jazz programs, was an excellent stint at the drums by the great Joe Jones, drumming to `` Old Man River '', which seems to have been elected the favorite solo for the boys on the batterie at this year's concerts.

After the surprise was over, Linda was almost as pleased as anyone with John's good luck, though she agreed with Bobbie's decision some months later to move to Funk Furnaces.

Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo in August 1950, and which also starred Mifune, became, on September 10, 1951, the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was subsequently released in Europe and North America.

Caracalla left for the frontier, where for the rest of his short reign he was known for his unpredictable and arbitrary operations launched by surprise after a pretext of peace negotiations.

Apparently, defence was impossible ; there are hints, not well substantiated, of treachery ; surprise is a more likely explanation.

He had noticed, says Polybius, a “ place between the two camps, flat indeed and treeless, but well adapted for an ambuscade, as it was traversed by a water-course with steep banks, densely overgrown with brambles and other thorny plants, and here he proposed to lay a stratagem to surprise the enemy ”.

They had the element of surprise, and this was also aided by the defection of Arminius from Roman ranks prior to the battle.

In September 1980, Abadan was almost overrun during a surprise attack on Khuzestan by Iraq, marking the beginning of the Iran – Iraq War.

Of great surprise to many fans was a brand new color scheme ; apparently the original colors used by the franchise since Major League Baseball awarded it to Jerry Colangelo's ownership group in 1995 were to be discontinued.

As of July 2002, the fate of the Minas Gerais was still unknown, with China having reportedly made a surprise bid for its purchase.

On a particularly dark and wet night Philip attempted a surprise attack but was thwarted by the appearance of a bright light in the sky.

Some believed that Hague had been unlucky, although most considered him to be a talented orator and an intelligent statesman, he had come up against the charismatic Tony Blair in the pomp of his political career, and it was no surprise that little progress was made in reducing Labour's majority after a relatively smooth parliament.

Determined to show the Grand Alliance that France was still resolute, Louis XIV prepared to launch a double surprise in Alsace and northern Italy.

Dressed to Kill was a note-for-note homage to Hitchcock's Psycho, including such moments as the surprise death of the lead actress and the exposition scene by the psychiatrist at the end.

He was selected for the squad which competed at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, but didn't kick a ball, something at which critics expressed surprise and bewilderment, even allowing for his lacklustre performance in Belgrade.