Sentence examples for seemed almost certain to from inspiring English sources

After trading queens with Navara, he seemed almost certain to convert his advantage to a win.

In Houston, the nation's fourth-largest city, Mayor Lee Brown seemed almost certain to wind up in a runoff.

With two outs in the sixth and with the pitcher at bat, Trachsel seemed almost certain to carry the perfect game into the seventh.

Just five years after the "collapse of Communism," the Communist candidate, Gennady Zyuganov, promising to bring back a stable, coherent past, seemed almost certain to win the Russian Presidency.

A journalist and former film executive who since 1969 has been a member of the Academy, Mr. Bart noted that Steven Spielberg's "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," riding a populist wave, had seemed almost certain to best Richard Attenborough's "Gandhi," which was slow and serious.

But it seems almost certain to benefit a rank outsider.

But that decision seems almost certain to be appealed.

The Senate, however, seems almost certain to have fewer veterans.

Next month's seems almost certain to be impressive.

But that pattern seems almost certain to change next year.

Portugal seems almost certain to require a bailout, and that would provide short-term relief.