Although generally slow-moving and sedentary, moose can become aggressive and move surprisingly fast if angered or startled.

It is important to note that if this had not been the case, Huygens ' results were surprisingly accurate.

Despite the massive loss of natural habitat in Australia over the last 200 years, it is adaptable and capable of living in surprisingly small patches of remnant bush, particularly if it does not have to cross large expanses of cleared land to reach them.

Somewhat surprisingly, given their wide range of practical uses, mathematicians have not yet proven that in three dimensions solutions always exist ( existence ), or that if they do exist, then they do not contain any singularity ( smoothness ).

In the period under review, the Lebanese sector was relatively calm, surprisingly so if one thinks of subsequent events in that area.

Not surprisingly, given the effort that would have been needed to build a reference implementation of JAIN call control, the standards community decided, implicitly if not explicitly, that the Parlay call control APIs were adequate and work on JAIN call control faded off.

The proof of a mathematical theorem exhibits mathematical elegance if it is surprisingly simple yet effective and constructive ; similarly, a computer program or algorithm is elegant if it uses a small amount of code to great effect.

Although his tail was surprisingly not regenerated, the rest of his wounds disappeared as if nothing ever touched him.

Consistent with the fact that human immune systems tolerate things better when they enter the body via the mouth, the Dutch researchers conducted a series of studies that confirmed a surprisingly strong correlation between a diminished incidence of pre-eclampsia and a woman's practice of oral sex, and noted that the protective effects were strongest if she swallowed her partner's semen.

By the late nineties, however, the band had all but disappeared — until they surprisingly ( if briefly ) surged back into the limelight by winning the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom on 3 May 1997 with the song " Love Shine a Light ".

This met with a surprisingly favorable reception from Spain, as Philip III and the Duke of Lerma had already resolved to concede sovereignty, if that proved inevitable in order to halt the war.

Furthermore if the Standard Model is used to calculate the quantum corrections to Fermi's constant, it appears that Fermi's constant is surprisingly large and is expected to be closer to Newton's constant, unless there is a delicate cancellation between the bare value of Fermi's constant and the quantum corrections to it.

Dissatisfaction, not surprisingly, started growing, as the social and economical decline wore on — to some Scots it could only appear as if central England were rebuilding its strength on behalf of its conceived provinces.

Several species of mostly small Reptile such as Lizards live in the area, and whilst the local people have a most approachable charm typical of small towns and are surprisingly diverse given the conservative and historic town facade, the same forthright approach to new acquaintances is however not recommended if you chance upon a Goanna or Snake on one of the many nearby wooded bushwalking tracks as they have a different temperament indeed.

For example, received support has not been linked consistently to either physical or mental health ; if anything, received support has surprisingly been linked to worse mental health.

Famously, early versions of the Storyteller System sometimes made rolling botches ( critical failures ) more likely the higher your skill or attribute was, since a critical failure would occur if any of the dice came up as a " 1 "; the probability that at least one " 1 " will be rolled increases the more dice are rolled, and so highly-skilled characters would botch surprisingly frequently, whereas poorly-skilled characters could frequently get away scot-free.

Pirena was surprisingly stronger and faster during the second duel, almost defeating Mine-a if not for the intervention of Mine-a's other daughters.

Positive reviews came from highly influential critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, with Siskel describing the movie as " surprisingly entertaining ," and Ebert saying that the movie was clever in how it " combines the conventions of the horror and disaster genres " and " is actually a lot of fun, if you like special effects and gore.

Yoyo, as he likes to be called, is good-natured, if a bit clumsy, and also surprisingly strong.

Focusing on accusations of utopianism, Nikolina Olsen-Rule, writing for the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, remarks, " For most people, the promise of the project sounds like an unattainable utopia, but if you examine it more closely, there are surprisingly many scientifically founded arguments that open up an entire new world of possibilities.

Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.

Our first impression of the data was that the students were surprisingly orthodox and religiously involved.

President Kennedy's latest warning to the Communist world that the United States will build up its military strength to meet any challenge in Berlin or elsewhere was, somewhat surprisingly, reported in full text or fairly accurate excerpts behind the Iron Curtain.

yet his changed appearance, surprisingly, was one of plumpness.

Attempts to accuse anthropologists of complicity with the CIA and government intelligence activities during the Vietnam War years have turned up surprisingly little ( although anthropologist Hugo Nutini was active in the stillborn Project Camelot ).

Johnson was surprisingly victorious, albeit with a narrower margin.

He was surprisingly able to complete " I Could Have Danced All Night " from My Fair Lady in one 24 hour period.

At this time, Centurashvili was only one month away from being discharged from the camp (...) And suddenly he surprisingly disappeared.

A slightly earlier, surprisingly reliable version of the same concept was to bundle a sequence of audio digital " signal " and " no signal " information ( i. e. " sound " and " silence ") on magnetic cassette tape for use with early home computers.

It was noted by Biham and Shamir that DES is surprisingly resistant to differential cryptanalysis, in the sense that even small modifications to the algorithm would make it much more susceptible.

Though designed strictly as a mechanism to support " natural language conversation " with a computer, ELIZA's DOCTOR script was found to be surprisingly successful in eliciting emotional responses from users who, in the course of interacting with the program, began to ascribe understanding and motivation to the program's output.

Hardly surprisingly, Botham was named Man of the Series, scoring 399 runs and taking 34 wickets.

He was " surprisingly slow in his reaction " to the Nazi electoral successes, and even when he was already the target of intense personal attacks, he thought that the Nazis should be part of the Prussian and national governments based on election returns.

Being a surprisingly tolerant and pluralistic society, even its army incorporated Jews, Christians, Muslims and Pagans at a time when religious warfare was the order of the day around the Mediterranean and in Western Europe.

Yet it is surprisingly timeless, in part because of the way our times have come weirdly to echo those in which it was conceived.

Not surprisingly, his translation was anything but accurate.

1940 was at the very end of the era of the light tank, and the German behemoths of the later war years were still in the future: many tanks were surprisingly vulnerable.

While the original proofs of Hadamard and de la Vallée-Poussin are long and elaborate, and later proofs have introduced various simplifications through the use of Tauberian theorems but remained difficult to digest, a surprisingly short proof was discovered in 1980 by American mathematician Donald J. Newman.

Perhaps surprisingly, it was the dying Edward himself who feared a return to Catholicism, and wrote a new will repudiating the 1544 will of Henry VIII.

However, Struve's initial result was actually surprisingly close to the currently accepted value of 0. 129 ″, as determined by the Hipparcos astrometry satellite.

Dewey led the first ballot, but was far short of a majority ; Taft was second, and Willkie was a surprisingly strong third.