If that should seem a relief for the coalition, it should actually be a relief for us, since we as taxpayers are responsible in one way or another for that debt.
From a political standpoint, the budget seemed a relief to many lawmakers.
Still, it seemed a relief to her, and to most neutrals, when she finally fulfilled her promise on court.
At first, getting about among the animals seemed a relief after the difficulties of the subway, and then it seemed worse when her flock were about to fly into seventeen directions at once.
Indeed, it seems a relief to the author, as to the reader, when the strained fiction of "fiction" is set aside and we get Amis's own unmediated (and very engaging) voice in the afterword, titled "That Which Happened".
What was once crazed and joyful was now awkwardly formal, and once the peloton left town, volunteers disassembled the barricades quickly and with what almost seemed like relief.
But when the possibility of such a scenario became real for our family, there seemed no relief from threat - even in fairy tales.
Smiling, for long minutes Clinton basked in the celebration -- the cheers and tears and balloons falling -- and also, it seemed, the relief and satisfaction of a job well done.
The evidence can be seen in every museum, as people rush through galleries, seeming to seek relief from something in hot pursuit.
He moved slowly and carefully around the stage in a limited edition S. Carter jersey and fitted cap, seeming to feel relief, a kind of wonder, and lots of responsibility.
