Thus, Hannibal took the Romans by surprise a scant two years later in 218 BC by merely reviving and adapting the original Gaulish-Carthaginian invasion plan of his brother-in-law.

Thus, Hannibal took the Romans by surprise a mere two years later ( 218 BC ) by merely reviving and adapting the original Gaulo-Carthaginian invasion plan of his brother-in-law Hasdrubal.

The plan was that after Theseus, Aegeus, and the palace guards had been forced out the front, the other half would surprise them from behind.

Uncertainty in the law is a serious problem, insofar as the published precedent of courts in a common law system is supposed to constitute " a clear guide for the conduct of individuals, to enable them to plan their affairs with assurance against untoward surprise.

His plan — to find a high wooded plain, form his men and force the Muslims to come to him — depended on the element of surprise.

The captain discovers this plan, but, as in many of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, a surprise disclosure changes things dramatically near the end of the story.

The daring plan involved a party of thirty hand-picked men, guided by one William Francis, a member of the garrison who knew a path to the castle, making a difficult ascent up the north face of the Castle Rock and taking the garrison by surprise.

The 4042d SW was a B-52H Stratofortress dispersal wing, a part of SAC's plan to disperse its big bombers over a larger number of bases, thus making it more difficult for the Soviet Union to knock out the entire fleet with a surprise first strike.

On September 1, 1958, Strategic Air Command established the 4133d Strategic Wing at Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota as part of SAC's plan to disperse its B-52 Stratofortress heavy bombers over a larger number of bases, thus making it more difficult for the Soviet Union to knock out the entire fleet with a surprise first strike.

They plan to surprise Buddy at his next tour stop.

As the two armies faced the stalemate of trench warfare at Petersburg in July 1864, Burnside agreed to a plan suggested by a regiment of Pennsylvania coal miners in his corps: dig a mine under a fort in the Confederate entrenchments and ignite explosives there to achieve a surprise breakthrough.

" He also drew laughter by recounting another plan where Meredith would go to Jackson to enroll while Barnett remained in Oxford, " and when Meredith was registered, he ( Barnett ) would feign surprise.

McDowell's ambitious plan for a surprise flank attack on the Confederate left was poorly executed by his officers and men ; nevertheless, the Confederates, who had been planning to attack the Union left flank, found themselves at an initial disadvantage.

Much to his surprise, they overwhelmingly rejected his " voluntary " segregation plan and instead stated that they wanted only an integrated school system.

Liu Shan ordered that Jiang Wei's plan from 258 be carried out — but much to Liu Shan's surprise, the Wei forces took no heed of Shu border cities at all and headed directly for the key passes.

Cal's business goes well, and he decides to give the money to Adam at a surprise birthday party for his father, which he and Abra plan together.

Historically, Campus Day was picked early in the year by the student government and reserved as a surprise to the rest of the student body, but today it is announced ahead of time so that students can plan ahead for it.

Contrary to the plan, the Indians lying in wait near the rear of the column, apparently unable to contain themselves any longer, opened fire, taking the column completely by surprise.

He is an arrogant and aggressive young man and after learning of the Narnians escape from Calormen, hatches a plan to almost singlehandedly take down two countries using only the element of surprise.

The plan was to persuade Atahualpa to submit to the authority of the Spaniards and, if this failed, there were two options: a surprise attack if success seemed possible or to keep a friendly stance if the Inca forces appeared too powerful.

Seeing the plan of a surprise attack fail, Pulcher ordered his fleet to regroup into battle formation.

Nevertheless, Allenby based his plan on surprise rather than mere superiority in numbers, to gain success, and the action at El Buqqar was sufficient to keep the Ottoman forces guessing as to the true intentions.

Zhang Zhizhong's initial plan was to have the numerically superior Chinese forces attack the Japanese by surprise and push them into the Huangpu River, then blockade the coast to deny the Japanese the opportunity to land reinforcements at the Huangpu wharves between Yangshupu ( 楊樹浦 ) and Hongkou ( 虹口 ).

New York senator Chuck Schumer proposed a four-point federal plan that includes surprise inspections and creating a national safety standard for bus operators.

* After another guard has his head eaten by ill-tempered mutated sea bass, his friends ( led by Rob Lowe, who would play the younger No. 2 in the sequel and has previously worked with Mike Myers in the film version of Wayne's World and with Seth Green in The Hotel New Hampshire ) hosting a surprise Bachelor's Party at a Hooters are notified of his death.

At first, Hardin was unimpressed with Louis, who arrived in Chicago wearing clothes and a hair style that she deemed to be " too country " for Chicago, but she worked to " take the country out of him " and a romance developed ( to the surprise of other band members, some of whom had been trying to woo pretty Hardin for some time with no success ).

To both Paul Allen's and Ed Roberts's surprise the software worked.

" He worked on his plans until March 23 and decided to recommend a surprise attack on the Union lines that would force Grant to contract his lines and disrupt his plans to assault the Confederate works ( which, unbeknownst to Lee and Gordon, Grant had already ordered for March 29 ).

Cretu worked with Frank Peterson and David Fairstein to create their ground-breaking first single " Sadeness ( Part I )", which became a surprise hit.

Even though the antidote worked, to everyone's surprise, Zedd truly loved Rita.

He worked for the Dick Gephardt campaign during the 1988 Democratic primaries, including Gephardt's surprise victory in the Iowa caucus, but after Gephardt's defeat, Shrum helped Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis in preparing for his debates against Vice President George Bush.

" Richmond Times-Dispatch reviewer Norman Rowe referred to Diffie as a " pleasant surprise " and called " Is It Cold in Here " " the sort of tear-jerker George Jones has worked wonders with in the past ".

While Abby met with doctors about the operation, the Wish Team worked on a secret surprise for her at home: a new backyard fitness center / playhouse, so that Abby could get back to being a strong, athletic girl.

Prior to forming the partnership both had spent time building London tube railways and Hay had worked on the Blackwall tunnel, so it was no surprise that they concentrated on heavy civil engineering projects such as bridges, tunnels, railways and docks.

It's no surprise concrete estates never worked

Clark is obsessed with making everything go perfectly during the holiday season, but as soon as everyone arrives, things start going haywire, especially when the Griswolds receive some uninvited surprise guests from Kansas -- cousin Catherine ( Miriam Flynn ), her sloppy husband Eddie ( Randy Quaid ), and two of their kids, Rocky ( Cody Burger ) and Ruby Sue ( Ellen Hamilton Latzen ).

Israel can defeat Egypt, but it requires either a perfectly executed surprise attack, a very strong Israeli army, Libya attacking Egypt simultaneously, or a nuclear attack.

When the businessman returns the next day, to his surprise the windshield wipers are working perfectly.

At that moment, to everyone's great surprise, the Duke sits up from his death bed, perfectly alive ( it seems as though Almachildes was not cold-blooded enough to actually kill him ).

She showed her surprise by tightening the reins and moving the gelding around so that she could get a better look at his face.

You took me by surprise.

They looked up in surprise as Powers came in.

Barton half-straightened in surprise.

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

Jess caught his breath in surprise.

To his faint surprise Russ held up his hand.

Incest is still a durable theme, but if it wants to get written about it will have to find ways to surprise the emotions, and there is no better way to do this than that of concealment and symbolic representation.

It is world-wide knowledge that any power which might be tempted today to attack the United States by surprise, even though we might sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible destruction.

To my great surprise and delight, when they saw the two trees they went rushing off, returning shortly with decorations from their own trees.

The young banker looked at him with a certain surprise, and then he said flatly: `` I'm afraid I can't tell you anything in particular about Kent House.

To Voltaire's surprise, however, their host gives them fresh clothes to put on, opens his purse to lend them money and sits them down before a good dinner.

She looked at him in surprise.

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.

He saw the surprise in her face, and laughed as though it were the funniest expression he had ever seen.

A great many writers are bewitched by the apparently overwhelming advantage an attacker would have if he were to strike with complete surprise using nuclear rockets.

Forces will survive a surprise attack, and these forces will give depth, or considerable duration, to the conflict.

If our SAC bombers were, today, capable of surviving a surprise missile attack and because of infinite dispersion or long endurance had the capability to strike at Russia again, and again, and again, those bombers would unquestionably assure our military dominance.

The deadliness of the Magnum in a rifle comes as no surprise to me.

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.

They had protested that that wasn't any surprise.

Autosuggestibility, the reaction of the subject in such a way as to conform to his own expectations of the outcome ( i.e., that the arm-rise is a reaction to the pressure exerted in the voluntary contraction, because of his knowledge that `` to every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction '' ) also seems inadequate as an explanation for the following reasons: ( 1 ) the subjects' apparently genuine experience of surprise when their arms rose, and ( 2 ) manifestations of the phenomenon despite anticipations of something else happening ( e.g., of becoming dizzy and maybe falling, an expectation spontaneously volunteered by one of the subjects ).

Somewhat to his surprise he found that one girl, whom he would never have considered for the job since she had appeared somewhat mousy and also had been in the office a relatively short time, did the most outstanding job of playing the role of receptionist, showing wit, sparkle, and aplomb.