The Prime Minister's criticisms were viewed as particularly surprising since the FSA's brand of light-touch financial regulation has typically been popular with banks and financial institutions in comparison with the more prescriptive rules-based regulation employed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and by other European regulators ; by contrast, most critiques of the FSA accuse it of instigating a regulatory " race to the bottom " aimed at attracting foreign companies at the expense of consumer protection.

From the beginning this was regarded as a surprising move, as the mature nature of the series was a noticeable contrast to most of the station's acquisitions, and clearly catered towards an older audience despite seeing many late afternoon airings.

Bragg diffraction ( also referred to as the Bragg formulation of X-ray diffraction ) was first proposed by William Lawrence Bragg and William Henry Bragg in 1913 in response to their discovery that crystalline solids produced surprising patterns of reflected X-rays ( in contrast to that of, say, a liquid ).

In a surprising contrast to his verses, all of his paintings were of saints and religious images.

In surprising contrast to the campaign itself, the withdrawals from Gallipoli were well planned and executed, with many successful deceptions to prevent the Turks realising that withdrawals were taking place, minimal losses, and many guns and other equipment also taken off.

In contrast, Benedict XVI praises the catechetical work of these lay organizations and commented on the profile of Opus Dei as " this surprising link between absolute fidelity to the great tradition of the Church and to her faith, with a disarming simplicity and unconditional openness to all the challenges of this world, in the academic world, in the world of work, in the world of economics, etc.

Halonen was a surprising candidate as she didn't represent many traditional values: She was known as a left-wing social democratic party member, who lived in a domestic partnership, was a single parent and had resigned from the national church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland.

The building complex has been restores and houses a surprising collection of art by German artist Wolf Vostell, who was an important member of the fluxus movement.

In a surprising development, the College announced in March 2011 that it would seek membership as a Division III member of the NCAA.

After fellow Family member Charles " Tex " Watson shot and killed teenager Steven Parent in his car in the estates ' driveway, Watson, Susan Atkins, and Krenwinkel entered the house, surprising all inside.

Mitchell was an early member of the Detection Club along with G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers and throughout the 1930s was considered to be one of the " Big Three women detective writers ", but she often challenged and mocked the conventions of the genre-notably in her earliest books, such as the first novel Speedy Death, where there is a particularly surprising twist to the plot, or her parodies of Christie in The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop ( 1929 ) and The Saltmarsh Murders ( 1932 ).

He was heckled by a member of the audience for claiming that Head Start didn't work, but perhaps his most surprising comment and show of blunt honesty was his remark that he would not create any new jobs, saying that in a free society entrepreneurs, not the government, created jobs.

Christopher T. Kontos ( born December 10, 1963 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a former National Hockey League forward who is best known for his surprising 9 goals in 11 playoff games while he was a member of the Los Angeles Kings and his shocking franchise opening night 4 goal performance ( with the Tampa Bay Lightning ) against that season's Vezina Trophy winner Ed Belfour.

Sullivan had not been called to the Council as a peritus, which was not surprising given that he was still quite a junior faculty member.

In a surprising move, SK Gaming announced that the Counter-Strike team would be removing the player with the shortest tenure, Marcus " Delpan " Larsson, in favor of their first permanent Danish member and former mTw ace, Martin Alexander " trace " Bang Heldt at the end of January.

However, he established himself as a key member of the team in 1985 – 86, and put up surprising numbers with 18 goals and 56 points, along with 152 PIM.

This was not surprising to his friends in Los Angeles, since he had been in various punk and rock bands ; the Daredevils, for instance, included then-departed member of Bad Religion Brett Gurewitz.

During the season, Friedgen led Maryland to a surprising 10 – 2 record, a top 10 national ranking, the first outright Atlantic Coast Conference ( ACC ) title by a team other than Florida State since the Seminoles entered the league in 1992 and the school's first conference title since 1985, and an appearance in the 2002 Orange Bowl — the Terrapins ' first major bowl bid in more than two decades.

However in Stirner's political thinking there can be found a surprising convergence with poststructuralist theory, particularly with regard to the function of power.

Both of these statistics are particularly surprising given that the city-proper has about 300, 000 people or 150, 000 fewer people than July 2005 population data ( though the metro area still accounts for 1. 2 million people ).

This popular saying tells you more about the local sense of humor than it does about the city, but Bari has a surprising amount of charm, particularly Barivecchia, its increasingly chic medieval old town.

( a particularly good — and usually surprising — move )

The existence of an incomplete formal system is, in itself, not particularly surprising.

It may not seem surprising to us that when Rivers was to apply a needle to a particularly sensitive part of the glans that " pain appeared and was so excessively unpleasant that cried out and started away "; indeed, such a test could be seen as a futility verging on the masochistic.

In some senses it is not particularly surprising, because many species are ovoviviparous and some are known as examples of various degrees of viviparous matrotrophy.

During the summer of 2008, a club takeover was agreed between Cazzola and an American-based consortium ; this was, however, cancelled in the end, following disagreements between the parties, and the club was successively sold to a local group led by new chairman Francesca Menarini, who thus became the second female chairman in the whole Serie A. Arrigoni was confirmed as head coach by the new group, and the start appeared to be particularly impressive, with a surprising 2 – 1 win at San Siro against Milan thanks to a winning goal scored by Francesco Valiani.

He was chiefly concern'd in designing and building a great number of magnificent Nobleman's Houses, and particularly ( with Sir John Vanbrugh ) those of Blenheim and Castle-Howard, at the latter of which he was at his Death, carrying on a Mausoleum in the most elegant and grand Stile ( sic ), not to mention many others: But one of the most surprising of his undertakings, was the repairing of Beverley Minster, where the stone wall on the north-side was near three Foot out of the perpendicular, which he mov'd at once to its upright by means of a machine of his own invention.

The Charleston quake was particularly surprising because, unlike Boston and New York, the area had almost no history of even minor earthquakes.

This was particularly surprising as Wright had been the highest top division goalscorer in England that season.

Among affricates, are all quite common, and is not unusual ( and is particularly common among the Khoisan languages ), which is surprising since non-ejective is not a common sound.

Jerry Brown, however, began to run a surprising insurgent campaign, particularly through use of a 1-800 number to receive grassroots funding.

In this circumstance it would not have been surprising that a faction may have been tempted to put forward a figure such as Domitianus who had an established military reputation – particularly if he was, indeed, the same man as the conqueror of the Macriani mentioned in the HA.

" As he is perceived as the oldest, several times Yakko has shown a surprising amount of responsibility dealing with the welfare of his two younger siblings, particularly in the movie, where he was more of the parent-like sibling.

Market forces did not prohibit trade with countries of Christians and Constantine was converted to Christianity there is nothing surprising in that the thing was common, particularly if the person was forced, which was the case for prisoners.

Partly influenced by surrealist artists, particularly Man Ray, Yevonde used surprising juxtapositions of objects which displayed her sense of humour.

note that this is not particularly surprising, given that both Microraptor and Sinovenator are very primitive members of two closely related groups, and both are close to the deinonychosaurian split between dromaeosaurids and troodontids.

It was particularly surprising in light of Salmond's earlier comments, before he had entered the race that he would have difficulties working with Neil should he be elected leader, although he later went on the record to say that he should not have publicly said this.

It is thus not surprising that Jinhan and Byeonhan, with their coastal and river locations, became particularly prominent in international trade during this time.

He was re-elected in 1862 to the U. S. House of Representatives and quickly became an aggressive Radical Republican, which was viewed as particularly surprising given that Maryland was a slaveholding border state.

The San Francisco Chronicle film critic, Edward Guthmann, also reviewed the film positively and thought the actors performed quite well, writing, " Fast-paced and unerringly surprising, Nine Queens is nicely performed by a large cast, particularly Darín ( El hijo de la novia ) as a goateed, less-than-perfect hoodwinker.

This was surprising, as Button was enjoying his best season to date, while Williams had been struggling.