Sentence examples for which seemed on from inspiring English sources
Despite our numerous arguments, I sensed he wanted to do a deal if it was possible – though on terms which seemed on the surface to be insurmountable.
Beyond the grim tower blocks, which seemed on television screens to be entirely on fire, are neat rows of houses, with shutters and net curtains.Some of the rebranding adds a humorous twist of self-parody.
Probably the most serious challenge to the Valley's dominance came in the late 1980s from Japan, which seemed on the brink of taking command of the semiconductor and computer industries until its economy foundered.
Most of the drama was set in Brighton, which seemed on this viewing to be like Camden-Town-by-the-Sea, full of talentless chancers with names like Gravecradle.
Similarly, the health-care reform that Obama got through both houses of Congress (and which seemed on the verge of being enacted until yesterday's election), while flawed, would nonetheless have dramatically transformed the health-insurance system, and to some extent the health-care system, for the better.
In the culmination of nearly 20 years of government and grass-roots efforts -- all of which seemed on the brink of failure a year ago -- New York State, Suffolk County, the Town of East Hampton and the Nature Conservancy on Long Island paid a total of about $17.7 million to buy the land from two private owners.
"I'm torn between particle physics and astrophysics, which seem on the face of it pretty different because one deals with the smallest things in the universe, and the other with the biggest," the young scientist said.
For Orwell, "Creeds like pacifism and anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind".
The appellate panel has no set timetable for issuing its opinion, but it is unlikely to be the last word on the case, which seems on its way to the Supreme Court.
It is also stoking inflation.Rich and rottenEven those countries which seem, on the surface, to be doing well from selling their oil and copper to Asia are in danger of damaging themselves in the longer term.
Saint-Preux's experience of love forbidden by the laws of class reflects Rousseau's own experience; and yet it cannot be said that The New Eloise is an attack on those laws, which seem, on the contrary, to be given the status almost of laws of nature.
