Sentence examples for seem to be applying from inspiring English sources

"The principle they seem to be applying is if it's in our interests to hide it, we're going to hide it.

Many are playing their cards close to their chests but, in general, lenders seem to be applying a "stress rate" of between6%and7% 7%, says Peter Gettins at mortgage broker London & Country.

But Japan's distressed banks still seem to be applying a mild brake on business spending: central-bank surveys suggest that most small businessmen find their bankers unusually tight-fisted.

But the presidential scholars do implicitly seem to be applying something like that standard: Harrison, who accomplished almost literally nothing, is not regarded as average but instead as the fourth-worst president.

#Syria #Kerry August 30, 2013 Updated at 5.09pm BST 4.56pm BST Members of Congress, with a few exceptions, do not seem to be applying great pressure on the president to call the legislature back from its vacation so it can hold a vote on a Syria war resolution.

"They seem to be applying it to a lot of different areas".

The energy and enthusiasm that make her Stockhausen playing so arresting seem to be applied much less precisely elsewhere.

(They tend to describe Scheindlin as "difficult," "shrill," and "demanding," terms that never seem to be applied to male judges, or to men generally).

But this sensible principle does not seem to be applied in Holyrood where there is no second chamber and very tight SNP party discipline.

The fact that mental terms seem to be applied in ensembles led a number of philosophers to think about technical ways of defining an entire set of terms together.

It adds that some of the criteria on which Birmingham's schools are judged to have failed, such as how well they prepare pupils for life in modern Britain, seem to be applied only to Muslim-dominated schools.Ofsted is certainly muddling the distinction between religious conservatism and the kind of extremism that feeds violence.