The result of the game was surprising to many in the sports media as Joe Namath and Matt Snell led Jets to the Super Bowl victory, under head coach Weeb Ewbank, who won two NFL Championships with the Colts.

However, Steve Forbes finished first in Delaware and Arizona while paleoconservative firebrand Pat Buchanan managed early victories in Alaska and Louisiana, in addition to a strong second place in the Iowa caucuses and a surprising victory in the small but key New Hampshire primary.

When the constitution of the Second Republic was finally promulgated and direct elections for the presidency were held on 10 December 1848, Louis-Napoléon won a surprising landslide victory, with 5. 6 million votes ( 75 %) to 1. 5 million for his closest rival, Cavaignac.

That relief force won a surprising victory over the more experienced Spartan force in the Battle of Arginusae, but in the wake of that battle Theramenes found himself in the middle of a massive controversy.

After George Washington crossed the Delaware River on December 25, 1776, the fact that thousands of Hessian troops had been drawn to Mount Holly aided in the Continental Army's success in the Battle of Trenton the next day, a surprising American victory that helped turn the Army's fading morale after the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Fort Washington just weeks before and the ignominious retreat through New Jersey.

The United States made a surprising run to the second round with a shocking victory over Colombia which saw Andrés Escobar, the player responsible for the United States ' first goal ( an own goal ), later shot to death in his homeland.

" He counterattacked Rennenkampf's massive army, bringing on the Battle of Stalluponen, and won a surprising victory while inflicting 5, 000 casualties and taking 3, 000 prisoners.

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On 24 September 1994, Oliver McCall beat Lewis with a surprising and somewhat controversial second round knockout victory at Wembley Arena, and, after outpointing Larry Holmes, he came to England to defend the WBC title against Bruno.

The Flyers took a commanding 3 – 1 series lead and had home ice to close out the series, but Brodeur gave up only one goal in each of the remaining three games of the series, propelling the Devils to the surprising come from behind series victory in 7 games.

With one of the most impressive playoff performances of his career, Brodeur guided the Devils to their third Stanley Cup victory after dramatic seven-game series wins against the top-seeded Ottawa Senators and the surprising 7th-seeded Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.

In 1953, Kirk led Labour to a surprising victory in elections for Kaiapoi's local council, and he became the youngest mayor in the country at age 30.

The SPÖ won a surprising victory in the state elections in Salzburg in 2004.

This surprising victory preserved Athens ' naval dominance and kept Naupactus secure ; the arrival of an additional twenty Athenian ships shortly afterwards secured the victory and put an end to Sparta's attempt to take the offensive in the Northwest.

After the surprising victory of the National Party in 1948, won on the program of implementing a strict program of apartheid or racial segregation and white minority rule, Malan became Prime Minister of South Africa and Strijdom became Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation.

Almost as surprising ( though not with hindsight, since the Tories made next to no progress nationally in 2001 ) was his holding the seat at the 2001 general election, though this time with a majority of 358, making it Labour's second-most marginal victory at that election and the sixth-most overall.

In 1970, he received the Democratic gubernatorial nomination and won a surprising victory in the general election over his Republican opponent, Edward Fike.

These Mamluk troops won a surprising victory in 1486 near Adana.

Her career stagnated after this surprising victory, and she didn't improve on her 1. 92-meter mark until 1978.

The battle was a pivotal moment in the Southern campaign ; the surprising victory over the Loyalist American militia came after a string of rebel defeats at the hands of Lord Cornwallis, and greatly raised morale among the Patriots.

The men's 4 × 100 metre relay team won a surprising victory, winning gold ahead of the American team.

It was a somewhat surprising victory for the Weismans, with Justice Kennedy, far from joining the conservative bloc that favored rolling back restrictions on school prayers, writing the majority opinion that preserved previous Supreme Court precedents that sharply limited the role that religion could play in the nation's public schools.

The anti-Pauline context of the Pseudo-Clementines is recognised, but the association with Simon Magus is surprising since they have little in common.

Bearing in mind the context in which the members of ASIS work, it is not surprising that there should develop a culture which sets great store by faithfulness and stoicism and tends to elevate conformity to undue heights and to regard the exercise of authority rather than consultation as the managerial norm.

* p-adic analysis, the study of analysis within the context of p-adic numbers, which differs in some interesting and surprising ways from its real and complex counterparts.

This may not be surprising in the context of attitudes prevailing in the 15th-and 16th-century Florentine republic.

Taken in this context, though he has sometimes been viewed as an odd or unqualified appointee to the College of Arms, it is not surprising, given the social expectations of his day, that by descent his credentials for his offices there were sound.

In this context, it is not surprising to find many presentations that fail to recognize a more general approach.

In this context, it is not surprising that there were relatively few newcomers to proletarian politics during the Eighties.

A mathematical coincidence often involves an integer, and the surprising ( or " coincidental ") feature is the fact that a real number arising in some context is considered by some ill-defined standard as a " close " approximation to a small integer or to a multiple or power of ten, or more generally, to a rational number with a small denominator.

Placed in the context of the widespread poverty that plagued Japan during this era, it is not surprising that the Valignano authorized the mission to rely on the tax income provided them by the Port of Nagasaki.

Broszat used as an example of his approach, the " Ley Plan " as the wide-ranging reform of the German social insurance system proposed in 1940 by the DAF was known, which Broszat noted borne many striking similarities to the British Beveridge Plan of 1943 ( through the German plan applied only to those classified as " Aryans ") Broszat argued that such a comparative approach would place the Nazi era in a better broader European and German context, especially since Broszat argued that the German plan of 1940 was in many ways the forerunner of the West German social insurance plan of 1957 with such features as pensions guaranteed by the state indexed to the level of GNP ( which was not surprising given that many of the same people worked on both plans ) Broszat called for the " normalization " of the historical understanding of the Nazi era with detailed scholarship employing " mid-range " concepts based upon empirical research and rejecting the moralistic condemnation of the period.

Yet Sir Thomas More provides a precedent of Shakespeare working as a reviser in a surprising context.

She suggests finally that Foucault's surprising deviation from his ideas on repression in the introduction might be a sort of " confessional moment ," or vindication of Foucault's own homosexuality of which he rarely spoke and on which he permitted himself only once to be interviewed.

Once more and roared off into the fog, his foot evidently surprising him with the suddenness with which it pressed the accelerator, just as his hand did when he worked.

Yet, in spite of this, intensive study of the taped interviews by teams of psychotherapists and linguists laid bare the surprising fact that, in the first five minutes of an initial interview, the patient often reveals as many as a dozen times just what's wrong with him ; ;

This action was somewhat surprising, as Levi had not only attempted to purchase Ethan's release while he was in Halifax, but he had also traveled to New York while Ethan was on parole there, and furnished him with goods and money.

Jacob Grimm noted that if, as Adam of Bremen states, Fosite's sacred island was Heligoland, that would make him an ideal candidate for a deity known to both Frisians and Scandinavians, but that it is surprising he is never mentioned by Saxo Grammaticus.

When Moctezuma was allegedly killed by being stoned to death by his own people " Cortés and all of us captains and soldiers wept for him, and there was no one among us that knew him and had dealings with him who did not mourn him as if he were our father, which was not surprising, since he was so good.

It is, therefore, not surprising that Innocent XI had little sympathy for James, and that he did not afford him help in his hour of trial.

Already prepared for such a tactic, Nero succeeds in surprising Worf by impaling him through the back with a large mechanical tentacle.

According to Foster " when he duly asked Maud to marry him, and was duly refused, his thoughts shifted with surprising speed to her daughter.

Kia defies him and makes the sign of the cross, surprising even herself.

Some critics have found Derrida's treatment of this issue surprising, given that, for example, Derrida also spoke out against antisemitism and, in the 1960s, broke with the Heidegger disciple Jean Beaufret over a phrase of Beaufret's that Derrida ( and, after him, Maurice Blanchot ) interpreted as antisemitic.

Two years later, Guthrum again attacked Alfred, surprising him by attacking his forces wintering in Chippenham.

Given the display of imperial power Henry III had inflicted on the Romans in intervening against Pope Gregory VI and installing Clement II, it is not surprising that on Christmas Day of 1047, an emissary was sent by the Roman people bringing news of Clement II's death to Henry III and asking him, in his position as Patricius of the Romans, to appoint a successor.

In a surprising ( since he had spent the whole last night trying to make sure Donald wouldn't leave and force him to pay the bill ) move, Scrooge quickly pulled the required amount from his pockets and bought the restaurant.

It is ambiguous on the question of the emperor's death, which is not surprising, as Ambrose represents him as a model of Christian virtue.

She perpetually keeps in touch with President Skroob via Videophones on various walls, surprising him when he is in bed with twin young women, and even when he is in the bathroom.

He has a prehensile tongue that can extend a surprising distance, allowing him to eat almost anything ; anything that can't be eaten can be spit out at enemies.

His speed, combined with punching power and surprising ring maturity for a 16 year-old, were enough to make him a world-ranked boxer by both the WBA and WBC, then boxing's only world-title recognizing organizations.

In 1885, he launched a study of craniometry, which gave surprising results contradictory to contemporary scientific racist theories on the " Aryan race ", leading him to denounce the " Nordic mysticism " in the 1885 Anthropology Congress in Karlsruhe.

It is not surprising that his independent decision making led him into conflict with his father, who had always tried to instill in him that very trait.

" That this problem was solved by showing that there cannot be any such algorithm would presumably have been very surprising to him.