Now, just as Mr Menem appeared to have moved closer to that goal, he seems to have conceded defeat.On July 21st, in a surprise and seemingly final announcement, Mr Menem said that he had "decided to abandon all possibility of competing for the presidency in 1999".
Eleven Republican senators joined every Democrat present to support the treaty, which now heads to a seemingly certain final vote of approval on Wednesday.
On Dec. 1, 1956, a crowd of more than 100,000 cheered the 5-foot-7 Mimoun, a mustachioed man with a blue jersey bearing the French tricolor and the number 13, as he ran a seemingly effortless final marathon lap at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on a day when the temperatures reached about 100 degrees.
Amazingly, that seemingly final decision was later completely overturned by a single appellate court judge with no new evidence -- that is legally unprecedented!
At the end of the seemingly final Democratic debate in January, CNN announced that it would sponsor another candidate meeting in Ohio in February.
Another, and seemingly final, turn has come in the ongoing effort to unlock 13 years of data on shootings by New York City police officers: the city has withdrawn its appeal of a judge's order that the Police Department turn over to the New York Civil Liberties Union the internal reports it generates whenever an officer fires at a civilian.
The letter that inspired Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" before being (allegedly) dropped off a houseboat, misfiled at a small Bay Area publisher, nearly tossed out with the trash, and then fought over by two literary estates has now reached its seemingly final destination.
He describes the triumvirate structure of power in the USSR before and during perestroika, the political reforms that were initiated, the ways that Soviet attitudes toward glasnost and perestroika evolved in both the reformist and conservative wings of the Party, and the reasons for the seemingly final swift collapse of the old ruling structures the crushing defeat of the Party in August 1991.
The seemingly final blow is the allegation that Manziel violated NCAA rules by accepting payment for signing autographs.
Although it is a natural reaction to go into panic mode and allow yourself to crumble under the weight of this seemingly final diagnosis, don't.
