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Traditional healers are considered incredibly important in local communities. You can disagree with them as much as you want, but if you don't work through them it's not surprising if you then see limited results. – Richard Mallett	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The overall pace of expansion remains insipid rather than impressive. This is perhaps not surprising given the heightened degree of uncertainty surrounding the Greek debt talks that was seen during the month. – Chris Williamson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The market is disappointed with last night's numbers, the spread (between Brent and U.S. crude) had narrowed so it's not surprising it's diverging. – Mike McCarthy	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The spread (between Brent and U.S. crude) had narrowed so it's not surprising it's diverging. – Mike McCarthy	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The political, the cultural views that I have are not surprising at all considering where I'm from, there's a long history of this. – Bradley Griffin	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The industrial sector has become more temperature-sensitive over the years, so it's not surprising industrial demand was a little disappointing this winter. – Kyle Cooper	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's not surprising that Saudi Arabia would finally make a decision that they are not going to be the sole equalizer of supply and demand around the world, they are going to expect other countries to be part of controlling supply. – North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If you actually know him it's not surprising, he had such determination, resilience, ability to focus and work hard, enormous self-belief and huge competitive drive. – David Sutton	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's the eradication -- you can almost use that word -- of this substance within a relative short period of time -- a few years, it was expected, but the extent is quite surprising. And remember, this was not a drug. This was an over-the-counter dietary supplement. There's been very few studies looking at the effect of an FDA ban on dietary supplements. – Jerrold Leikin	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's not surprising, wolves do tend to attempt to reproduce each year. We expected them to den again. – John Stephenson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Most people don’t have a good feel on where their money goes, but if you look at your annual credit card, it’s usually surprising where you spend money, you may be eating out way more than you thought, and you may want to use that money instead on debt reduction. – Angela DiCastri	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
A small correction in the property sector is not surprising as investors are likely taking profits after the rally yesterday. – Gerry Alfonso	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There’s the income effect, in New Jersey, we’ve had tepid overall economic activity, so it’s not surprising to have tepid growth in traffic volumes. – Joseph Seneca	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This whole exhibition was about celebrating the influence of Chinese fashion -- yet no one understood the significance of Rihanna wearing a yellow cape with traditional Chinese embroidery, it's disappointing but not surprising. – Noel Duan	Found on CNN 9 years ago
What was surprising is that her voice sounded very strong. It didn't seem like she had gone through a terrible episode in her life. – Ahmed Shadmann of Bangladesh	Found on CNN 9 years ago
If you send police officers into those situations where the drug trade is the primary economy and you say to them basically your job is to contain that and arrest kids and put them in jail when those police officers know [it's not going to fix things], then it's not surprising you end up with a situation of enormous tension between those communities and those police officers. – Barack Obama	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The finding was not surprising to me because many aspects of the Mediterranean diet have been shown to be protective towards cancer in general. – Athena Linos	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's disappointing but not surprising. – Vermont Senator	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The thing that maybe was a little surprising was the reticence of the defendants to step forward and do that. she couldn't say something that wasn't true. – Bob Rubin	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The mayor has not hidden his progressive beliefs and his view that the Democratic Party needs to address them, many remain skeptical about former Secretary Clinton's agenda, and it is not surprising that a high-profile mayor of New York would see himself as a leading spokesman for the progressive agenda. – Stuart Rothenberg	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We know the secretary from the years of being first lady to the senator to the secretary, so we have decades of working relationship with her, i don't think it's surprising that the former senator of New York is close to the finance community. – Robert Wolf	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Both seem small and I think would be surprising to many patients— those usually translate into a 3 to 5 percent weight loss for the starting weight for most of the patients in these trials. – Kimberly Gudzune	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's not just about defending, it's also about adding to the attack and being creative out there, it's not surprising, actually, it's kind of the way we play. – Lori Chalupny	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Babies preferentially explored the object if it did something surprising rather than a new toy. – Aimee Stahl	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

Traditional healers are considered incredibly important in local communities. You can disagree with them as much as you want, but if you don't work through them it's not surprising if you then see limited results.

– Richard Mallett

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The overall pace of expansion remains insipid rather than impressive. This is perhaps not surprising given the heightened degree of uncertainty surrounding the Greek debt talks that was seen during the month.

– Chris Williamson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The market is disappointed with last night's numbers, the spread (between Brent and U.S. crude) had narrowed so it's not surprising it's diverging.

– Mike McCarthy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The spread (between Brent and U.S. crude) had narrowed so it's not surprising it's diverging.

– Mike McCarthy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The political, the cultural views that I have are not surprising at all considering where I'm from, there's a long history of this.

– Bradley Griffin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The industrial sector has become more temperature-sensitive over the years, so it's not surprising industrial demand was a little disappointing this winter.

– Kyle Cooper

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's not surprising that Saudi Arabia would finally make a decision that they are not going to be the sole equalizer of supply and demand around the world, they are going to expect other countries to be part of controlling supply.

– North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If you actually know him it's not surprising, he had such determination, resilience, ability to focus and work hard, enormous self-belief and huge competitive drive.

– David Sutton

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's the eradication -- you can almost use that word -- of this substance within a relative short period of time -- a few years, it was expected, but the extent is quite surprising. And remember, this was not a drug. This was an over-the-counter dietary supplement. There's been very few studies looking at the effect of an FDA ban on dietary supplements.

– Jerrold Leikin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's not surprising, wolves do tend to attempt to reproduce each year. We expected them to den again.

– John Stephenson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Most people don’t have a good feel on where their money goes, but if you look at your annual credit card, it’s usually surprising where you spend money, you may be eating out way more than you thought, and you may want to use that money instead on debt reduction.

– Angela DiCastri

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

A small correction in the property sector is not surprising as investors are likely taking profits after the rally yesterday.

– Gerry Alfonso

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There’s the income effect, in New Jersey, we’ve had tepid overall economic activity, so it’s not surprising to have tepid growth in traffic volumes.

– Joseph Seneca

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This whole exhibition was about celebrating the influence of Chinese fashion -- yet no one understood the significance of Rihanna wearing a yellow cape with traditional Chinese embroidery, it's disappointing but not surprising.

– Noel Duan

Found on CNN
9 years ago

What was surprising is that her voice sounded very strong. It didn't seem like she had gone through a terrible episode in her life.

– Ahmed Shadmann of Bangladesh

Found on CNN
9 years ago

If you send police officers into those situations where the drug trade is the primary economy and you say to them basically your job is to contain that and arrest kids and put them in jail when those police officers know [it's not going to fix things], then it's not surprising you end up with a situation of enormous tension between those communities and those police officers.

– Barack Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The finding was not surprising to me because many aspects of the Mediterranean diet have been shown to be protective towards cancer in general.

– Athena Linos

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's disappointing but not surprising.

– Vermont Senator

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The thing that maybe was a little surprising was the reticence of the defendants to step forward and do that. she couldn't say something that wasn't true.

– Bob Rubin

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The mayor has not hidden his progressive beliefs and his view that the Democratic Party needs to address them, many remain skeptical about former Secretary Clinton's agenda, and it is not surprising that a high-profile mayor of New York would see himself as a leading spokesman for the progressive agenda.

– Stuart Rothenberg

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We know the secretary from the years of being first lady to the senator to the secretary, so we have decades of working relationship with her, i don't think it's surprising that the former senator of New York is close to the finance community.

– Robert Wolf

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Both seem small and I think would be surprising to many patients— those usually translate into a 3 to 5 percent weight loss for the starting weight for most of the patients in these trials.

– Kimberly Gudzune

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's not just about defending, it's also about adding to the attack and being creative out there, it's not surprising, actually, it's kind of the way we play.

– Lori Chalupny

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Babies preferentially explored the object if it did something surprising rather than a new toy.

– Aimee Stahl

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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