0 suddenly and unexpectedly without any warning: --
1 suddenly and unexpectedly; without warning: --
These are serious difficulties for industry when taxation is thrust upon manufacturers unawares.
The merchant seaman must sail at the hazard of a deadly peril, which might come unawares, and against which he was at first utterly defenceless.
I can recommend this as an excellent substitute for a banana skin because it is lethal if stepped on unawares.
Like me, he was caught unawares by the sudden collapse of our business this morning.
It was not that the unions were agitators, stirring up people; even the unions were caught unawares.
The problems about the use of the green belt have been catching up on us unawares.
Having been taken unawares, it has then taken us many years slowly and painfully to build up our intelligence organisations in those places.
We are caught unawares, surprised by sound, which may be the one remaining sensory dimension in our hypervisual culture that still has the power to shock.
