It briefly seemed that Western companies might take a more coordinated and more assertive position.
Perhaps the most vibrant one occurred last year, when it briefly seemed that a proposal to ban circumcision in the city would appear on a ballot.
In the Beacon diner it briefly seemed Gingrich's staff might have faced an embarrassingly empty room as the venue failed to fill quickly.
Last year, when it briefly seemed he might leave government, the markets went into a panic until he said he was willing to stay on the job.
The data barely show it yet, but the financial malaise could yet be aggravated by a broader economic malaise.Back in October it briefly seemed as if the summer's turmoil was abating.
Tarzan goes wild in Westminster It briefly seemed a curious decision by BBC producers when what appeared to be an elderly tramp arrived on screen claiming, somewhat dubiously, to know David Cameron personally.
As he flew in at the right corner to score, half-bird half-plane, it briefly seemed as if the aching years of rehab and misery had never happened.
When Tsipras announced it eight days ago, urging his countrymen to vote No, it briefly seemed like a potential masterstroke – what's called here a "Hail Mary" pass, a last-ditch gamble by an American football quarterback to claim victory from seemingly inevitable defeat.
But when House Republicans severed the traditional connection, arbitrary but politically effective, between farm subsidies and food stamps, it briefly seemed like they were looking for an opportunity to put libertarian populist principle into practice, by separating both outlays in order to trim or reform both separately.
From the Castel Sant'Angelo, where the opera's last act takes place, to the ancient neighborhood around the Teatro Flaiano, mobbed in the autumn evening with tourists and Romans doing what they always do, dodging traffic, looking at one another and the city, it briefly seemed as if not much had actually changed since Puccini's day, that opera was still in the bloodstream here.
