But as to motive, nothing was apparent.
Others seek cosmetic surgery — which fails to relieve anxiety and can even make the problem worse, leaving scars where nothing was apparent before.
Edward Kennedy, who succeeded Dodd as the Senate's lead voice in the cause of gun control, addressed a closed session of the N.R.A.'s board of directors, saying, "It is apparent that nothing is being done by opponents of gun legislation to foster understanding, intelligent debate, and compromise".
From the time that a cabinet bin opens automatically to reveal an envelope containing the group's first challenge — within a 10-minute time limit, the four must decide which one of them is actually a member of the company's human resources department — it is apparent that nothing is going to be quite what it seems.
The camaraderie is apparent.
A complicating factor in this study was the difficulty in identifying farms where both positive and negative pigs of the target age were present, since an 'all-or-nothing' effect was apparent on many farms.
Connoisseurs of chaos — and there are more of us, in our quiet nests, than may be apparent — hope that nothing is resolved too swiftly.
Despite Greenspan's assurances that there was nothing alarming, it was apparent that a number of local markets, especially in California, were experiencing bubble-like conditions, with prices rising to clearly unsustainable levels.
If nothing else, it's apparent that we can't pin all our frustration at unlimited government intrusion on our friends over at the NSA.
When a person shifts his attention away from mental activity and focuses on the silent background, it turns out that this apparent "nothing," is the womb of creation.
