Not surprisingly, the AELC proved to be more socially and theologically liberal than the LCMS, and shortly after its inception, it departed from LCMS practice on ordination by opening the ministry to women with the ordination of Pastor Janith Otte-Murphy.

The Wisconsin primary proved to be the key contest, as Dewey won by a surprisingly wide margin ; he took 14 delegates to four for Harold Stassen, while MacArthur won the three remaining delegates.

Gorton proved to be a surprisingly poor media performer and public speaker, and was portrayed by the media as a foolish and incompetent administrator.

Carolina faced the New Jersey Devils in the conference semifinals, which proved surprisingly one-sided, as the Hurricanes beat the Devils in five games.

Though Genghis was at first seen as a scourge of Christianity's enemies, he proved to be surprisingly tolerant of religious faiths among those subjects that did not resist the empire, and was the first East Asian ruler to invite clerics from three major religions ( Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism ) to a symposium so that he might learn more about their beliefs.

Although designed with no consideration for the anti-tank role, the SU-152 proved to have surprisingly good anti-tank capabilities due to the ML-20S's extremely heavy HE projectiles.

In the Rann of Kutch the tanks proved surprisingly nimble in marshy terrain, and Pakistani forces drove back Indian incursions.

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.

His goal-scoring prowess proved instrumental as the Croatians surprisingly took third place, upsetting a strong Netherlands side, in their debut World Cup as an independent country.

The 2011 / 12 season proved to be relatively good by managing to qualify 2 0f the 8 ranking events, the shanghai masters losing to Ronnie o Sullivan 1-5 and the German masters, surprisingly thrashing Stephen hendry 5-1 in the qualifiers but then lost to graeme dott in the first round. At the end of the season he finished ranked NO 63 just inside the top 64.

It proved to be surprisingly fast, at a time when even a one year old car was considered out of step with the competition.

Paweraa played a leading part in the vizierial commission set up to investigate, and, not surprisingly, it proved impossible for Paweraa to be officially charged with any crime due to the circumstantiality of the evidence.

Published in various countries in magazines that ranged from monthly to fortnightly, Pepito proved surprisingly more popular outside of Italy than in its country of origin.

Not very surprisingly, Gali Nuva was proved right.

Gallas suffered an injury hit second half of the season and did not play for over two months, he was surprisingly included in the starting line up against FC Barcelona only to get stretchered off before halftime with a recurrence of the injury, It proved to be his last game for Arsenal.

The wing warping of the Avro Triplane proved surprisingly successful, whereas on the reproduction Antoinette, with its very flexible wing, wing warping offered little effective lateral control.

Apart from other teams, their main obstacles proved to be Mr. Ferris, who was surprisingly uncooperative for a teacher of physical education, and various bullies from Dedfield, including Brian " Jaws " Jenner.

The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals proved to be very popular, perhaps surprisingly, with a Victorian readership more accustomed to hearing about the virtues of self-control ( inhibition ) rather than the value of self-expression.

) On the other hand, South America's small marsupials survived in large numbers, while the primitive-looking xenarthrans proved to be surprisingly competitive and became the most successful invaders of North America.

The elderly Fokker biplanes proved themselves to be surprisingly effective at low level bombing of German positions.

He prepared an estimate of the situation for this operation which proved to be surprisingly accurate and has since become a classic in Marine Corps military literature.

The exhibition of female bodies in the nude came into mild, but mainstream competition in the so-called beach party films which started in 1963 and proved surprisingly popular.

This decision proved to be surprisingly good, and he soon emerged as one of the most intelligent and musically cultured of the Italian singer-songwriters.

However, his subject matter and basic themes have remained surprisingly consistent, and these, together with certain key poetic images, may be traced through all his work, including the new jazz experiments.

He seemed to be muttering, his voice surprisingly clear.

Twice, the murderer surprisingly turns out to be the unreliable narrator of the story.

Brearley surprisingly agreed to be reappointed before the Third Test at Headingley.

Not surprisingly, crannogs have useful defensive properties, although there appears to be more significance to prehistoric use than simple defense as very few weapons or evidence for destruction appear in excavations of prehistoric crannogs.

Not surprisingly, it is impractical for generalized correctness, which probably cannot even be defined, much less proven.

His teachings are surprisingly modern, therefore Asclepiades is considered to be a pioneer physician in psychotherapy, physical therapy and molecular medicine.

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.

Among these were some surprisingly sophisticated principles, and a modern mathematician might be hard put to derive some of them without the use of calculus.

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.

In fact, perhaps surprisingly, for a typical sentence there may be thousands of potential parses ( most of which will seem completely nonsensical to a human ).

This is not possible, but the near-adiabatic high expansion ratio nozzles that can be used with rockets come surprisingly close: when the nozzle expands the gas, the gas is cooled and accelerated, and an energy efficiency of up to 70 % can be achieved.

The overall effect is that there is surprisingly little difference in overall performance between SSTOs that use hydrogen and those that use denser fuels, except that hydrogen vehicles may be rather more expensive to develop and buy.

It should be noted that the bandwidth of wired systems can be in fact surprisingly narrow, with the bandwidth of Ethernet wire limited to approximately 1 GHz, and PCB traces limited by a similar amount.

Maybe surprisingly, the greatest element is 0, because it can be divided by any other number.

Trolling can be effective at surprisingly low speeds.

Their flight can be surprisingly silent ( for observers ), although that of a few species is reportedly quite noisy.

It turns out that this operation can be extended ( in more than one way ) to, turning this space also into a monoid, though rather surprisingly a non-commutative one.

Not surprisingly, many puzzles turn out to be NP-complete, and many games turn out to be PSPACE-complete.

Professor Mark Glancy, teacher of film history at Queen Mary University of London has said: “ It ’ s horrendously inaccurate and attributes crimes committed by the Nazis in the 1940s to the British in the 1770s .” In contrast, Australian film critic David Edwards asserts that " this fictional story is set around actual events, but it is not a history of what America was, or even an image of what it has become-it's a dream of what it should be .... The Patriot is a grand epic full of action and emotion .... But it's also surprisingly insightful in its evaluation of the American ideal-if not the reality.