"Europe had been through its own upheavals just five years earlier with the revolutions of 1848," Platt writes, "and the events in China seemed a remarkable parallel: the downtrodden people of China, oppressed by their Manchu overlords, had, it seemed, risen up to demand satisfaction".
Indeed, where an effect can be seen, it seems that rising in the rankings leads to fewer applicants.
(Reflecting, it seems, a rising Asian interest in U.S. companies, especially gaming).
Obviously, or so it seems, the rising teen birth rates are related to astronomical increases in funding for abstinence-only programs that continue despite mounting evidence that not only do these programs not work at all, they also present medically inaccurate, biased information, including exaggerated condom failure rates and stereotype tinged portrayals of relations between the genders.
The dancers crash to the floor but are reborn; Mr. Shechter's fools, it seems, always rise to the surface.
It seems to rise a little to meet the sun.
It's country gospel gone lurid, and it seems to rise up out of a nap.
When Raff's father, Ainsley, gives voice to his code, it seems to rise, as Mr. Wilson writes elsewhere, "through the limbic system to pre-empt the thinking brain".
"It seems to rise very quickly and give you a very narrow window of opportunity to make the diagnosis before it spreads".
