1.   Many criminal actions appear to offer little threat to the capitalist class system.

2.   On the face of it such an action appears to be a simple case of cowardice in the face of the enemy.

3.   Although the drug is believed to block growth of blood vessels, this action does not appear to explain its effect in multiple myeloma.

4.   At first, the action appeared to end a standoff between church and state over the controversy of how to handle priests accused of child molestation.

5.   After years of talk, action appears likely.

6.   But such actions appear likely to spread.

7.   But the action Thursday appeared to have doomed the larger measure, which included stricter reporting rules and broader definitions of lobbyists, covering lawyers for the first time.

8.   But those actions appear reasonable, if not defensible.

9.   From the outset the Microsoft action has appeared more a case of the Justice Department playing politics in Silicon Valley than trying to protect American consumers.

10.   Labor Party leaders are to meet Wednesday to discuss withdrawing from the government, but no such action appears imminent.