At one time it seemed as if the Soviet Union had done us a favor by providing a striking example of how not to behave towards other peoples and other nations.

I do not suppose you ever heard of F. Scott Fitzgerald, living or dead, and moreover I do not suppose that, even if you had, his legend would have seemed to you to warrant more than a cluck of disapproval.

To the Rebels it seemed as if Sherman carried tunnels and bridges in his pockets.

The prevailing official attitude then seemed to be that fallout, if not exactly good for you, might not be much worse than a bad cold.

It all seemed -- if one could have peeked in at him through one of his windows -- as though this broken-nosed man with the muscular arms and wrestler's neck was merely the caretaker trying his hand at the boss's work.

It seemed that I would be the gainer if I accepted the peace and quiet, instead of carrying out my threats.

I sighed, thinking that among other things, people here seemed to be those who would have to cut down if they earned less than $85,000 yearly ; ;

never seemed as if it could happen to you ; ;

It seemed as if they were all under a spell.

Phil decided to stay a little longer, and as time passed it seemed as if the strange little man had never been there, but for the other glass on the table.

Now it seemed almost as if Jesus were looking down at me with sadness in His eyes, saying:

It seemed to him that if the Ferraros felt sure of them, could place them, it would help him to feel more sure of himself with Carla.

It just seemed as if there was nothing else to do.

The black Fudo seemed to stare rigidly back at him and Richard's eyes were caught by the Fudo's in fascination, and then Richard was shocked as, all at once, flames shot out from the sharp features of Fudo's face and there was a terrible metallic scraping sound, as if the large statue were about to burst from some pressure within it.

The girls seemed to spend half their time tiptoeing in `` to see if Mike was all right '' and they were too preoccupied to cook, much less be secretaries.

It seemed unlikely that her crew, if either of them were alive, could even see the Ariadne, for they were passing her at a distance of nearly a light-year.

They noted a glycerin-bile-potato mixture grew bacilli that seemed less virulent, and changed the course of their research to see if repeated subculturing would produce a strain that was attenuated enough to be considered for use as a vaccine.

Despite being a qualified engineer, a successful businessman, a multiple record-breaker in his own right and a highly effective advocate of his own cause, Campbell was not an easy man and seemed driven to emulate, if not surpass, his father's achievements.

And the fire which was to be directed against the enemy through tubes he made to pass through the mouths of the beasts, so that it seemed as if the lions and the other similar monsters were vomiting the fire.

For a time, it seemed as if revolutionary contagion might spread to Honduras as well.

This Miaoulis did, the intention being to prevent a blockade of the islands, so for a time it seemed as if the National Assembly would be called.

" personal-computer upgrade that seemed as if it would never materialize eventually caught the attention of the Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ), who started investigating Mattel Electronics for fraud and false advertising.

He was incessantly tortured by the fear of being regarded as a ‘ bourgeois intellectual ’… It always seemed as if he were offering blind devotion ( to Nazism ) to make up for his lack of all those characteristics of the racial elite which nature had denied him.

The doctors Richard Warren and Sir George Baker believed Reynolds ' illness to be psychological and they bled his neck " with a view of drawing the humour from his eyes " but the effect of this in the view of his niece was that it seemed " as if the ' principle of life ' were gone " from Reynolds.

At the moment when she met the gaze of the judge, the beckoning of her arms seemed to hold the promise that if he preferred her over the other goddesses, she would present Paris with a bride of unmatched beauty, one like herself.

Just as victory seemed certain for the Imperial Guard, she once again became Dark Phoenix, and ultimately committed apparent suicide on Earth's moon before the eyes of a horrified Cyclops.

While it has to be maintained by changes in the mass distribution or angular momentum of the Earth's outer core, atmosphere, oceans, or crust ( from earthquakes ), for a long time the actual source was unclear, since no available motions seemed to be coherent with what was driving the wobble.

Two of the chambers contain cities long abandoned by human beings who seemed to come from Earth's future.

Moira MacTaggert, long-time ally of the mutant X-Men and one of Earth's top geneticists, seemed to have been the first non-mutant human to be infected with Legacy-3.

Even professional biologists seemed to Odum to be generally under-educated about how the Earth's ecological systems interact with one another.

' However, the Earth Federal Army was no match for the overwhelming combat power of Turin, and Earth's fate seemed sealed.

the rough surface of the earth itself seemed to resist every attempt on his part to relax.

The process of flattening seemed inexorable, and it became necessary to emphasize the surface still further in order to prevent it from fusing with the illusion.

What bits of Brumidi and Costaggini could be reached at either end seemed in good order, though the roughish sandy surface was thick with dust.

In an article he submitted for the medical journal The Lancet during World War I, Fleming described an ingenious experiment, which he was able to conduct as a result of his own glass blowing skills, in which he explained why antiseptics were killing more soldiers than infection itself during World War I. Antiseptics worked well on the surface, but deep wounds tended to shelter anaerobic bacteria from the antiseptic agent, and antiseptics seemed to remove beneficial agents produced that protected the patients in these cases at least as well as they removed bacteria, and did nothing to remove the bacteria that were out of reach.

Albert Speer notes that though Himmler seemed pedantic and insignificant on the surface, he was a good decision maker, had a talent for selecting highly competent staff, and successfully inserted the SS into every aspect of daily life.

He, almost alone among the Canadians, seemed to take to the larger ice surface as if it offered more opportunity instead of obligation.

On the surface, this seemed impossible since King Constantine was himself a brother-in-law to the Kaiser.

Zapata decided that on the surface it seemed as though Madero was doing good things for the people of Mexico, but Zapata did not know the level of sincerity in Madero's actions and thus did not know if he should support him completely.

Population growth was slow and although it seemed that the lumbering concerns were moving a mountain of pine they had in reality barely scratched the surface.

Most comets undergo outgassing from a small proportion of their surface, but most or all of Hyakutake's surface seemed to have been active.

Pinel's most important contribution may have been the observation and conviction that there could be sanity and rationality even in cases that seemed on the surface impossible to understand, and that this could appear for periods in response to surrounding events ( and not just because of such things as the phase of the moon, a still common assumption and the origin of the term lunatic ).

Although Kane's claims seemed to be valid on the surface, it was proven that her appearance was not unique.

Although on surface Vice seemed to celebrate Reaganism, many episodes actually contained subtle criticism of the Reagan Administration's domestic and foreign policies.

Since these fieldline properties seemed to be exhibited down to the event horizon, and general relativity insisted that no dynamic exterior interactions could extend through the horizon, it was considered convenient to invent a surface at the horizon that these electrical properties could be said to belong to.

Now, on her toes, the deified ballerina ( embodied in this period by the legendary ballerina Marie Taglioni ) seemed to magically skim the surface of the stage, an ethereal being never quite touching the ground.

The rate of improvement of surface to air missiles seemed to indicate that they would soon be able to shoot any manned aircraft out of the sky.

" It seemed to me that moderate surface velocities and speeds of rotation were essential if the turbine motor was to receive general acceptance as a prime mover.

Some encouraging early results, typically obtained by projecting a solar spectrum directly onto the sensitive surface, seemed to promise eventual success, but the comparatively dim image formed in a camera required exposures lasting for hours or even days.

The term glass ceiling was used prior to the 1984 article by two women at Hewlett-Packard in 1979, Katherine Lawrence and Marianne Schreiber, to describe how while on the surface there seemed to be a clear path of promotion, in actuality women seemed to hit a point which they seemed unable to progress beyond.

Arranging broadcasts through The Baseball Network seemed, on the surface, to benefit NBC and ABC since it gave them a monopoly on broadcasting Major League Baseball.

On the surface, it seemed as if Hatta was retiring for practical reasons.