This is hardly surprising.

No one should be surprised.

So is it any wonder?

So is it any wonder?

Not surprisingly, the economy deteriorated.

Not surprisingly, you can see this is a pretty challenging task.

What is strange is that you have changed so little.

Unfortunately, that is no surprise.

It is not surprising that this role has recently vanished.

The budget deficit, unsurprisingly, ballooned.

So you find, not surprisingly, the police saying,

Not surprisingly, secessionist sentiment remains strong.

No wonder that the efficacy of these tools has weakened.

When the design emerged it was surprisingly simple and straightforward.

It's no wonder that everybody's getting into it, right?

That Japan s dignity is now a central issue should surprise no one.

This is not surprising, given Africa s poor educational provision.

Such shortages, no surprise, have stoked inflation.

Karimov, not surprisingly, dodged and weaved instead.

And I think that that's not really surprising though, is it?

It is not surprising that policy approaches have also varied.

Not surprisingly, that stance has further inflamed Korean emotions.

Not surprisingly, she won re election resoundingly.

It is not surprising that they are working longer than Keynes thought they would.

Unsurprisingly, financial markets do not want to be tamed.

It is no surprise that the reform process is taking so long.

Russian leaders, not surprisingly, also drew their own conclusions.

Yanukovich s anti democratic position should come as no surprise.

Perhaps it is not surprising that Italians admire France s Fifth Republic.

So it's not surprising that, about 12 years ago, when

Unsurprisingly, Yanukovych has consistently stated his preference for an Association Agreement.

Not surprisingly, the political opposition to such debt mutualization was intense.

Not surprisingly, that prospect offers scant comfort to China.

So it should surprise no one that containment is coming to dominate Asian diplomatic discourse.

That is not surprising Corporatist institutions plausibly retard development.

This is not surprising, given Kenya s poor record of prosecuting war crimes.

Their tools and powers were lacking.

So it is no surprise that the American public and the US Congress are angry.

It was surprising that he should attempt to describe, in unsubstantiated detail, a situation which he had not witnessed.

It is no wonder, then, that the Serbs continue to openly flout Security Council resolutions.

Citizens, unsurprisingly, complained about the declining legitimacy of EU institutions.

No surprise, then, that governments have sought to manage our expectations carefully.

Unsurprisingly, the fate of the Cairo talks is anything but certain.

So it comes as no surprise that the Kremlin is trying to scupper Nabucco.

Not surprisingly, autocrats everywhere embraced such views.