The surprising departure of Roque Osorio, a Venezuelan national team player, left the Terriers short a front-line player before the season.

His surprising departure to join the Tracinda Corporation caused I.B.M.'s stock to decline nearly 2 percent on a day other computer stocks were up.

His surprising departure creates a power vacuum in the county Republican Party and throws the race to succeed Mrs. Roukema wide open.

Though it was a surprising departure from Vulcan stoicism, he could certainly understand it.

Given that Springsteen was famous for his full-band, high-energy, crowd-rousing concerts, this tour was sure to be a surprising departure.

Your departure not surprising does shock.

Which was the causative factor behind Pucky's surprising departure from Venus.

Danced partly barefoot or on the knees, the work was once considered a surprising departure from Balanchine's usual classicism.

Once it's open, you discover another surprising departure: the screen is on the bottom, and the dialing pad is on the top.

In fact most of the songs were already finished when Jacob Hansen announced his surprising departure from the band.