11.   However, even if the immediate outcome seems negative, good should come of it in the long term.

12.   In the closest states, the outcomes seemed to depend on such old-fashioned qualities as turnout and regional loyalty.

13.   Its outcome seems predictable, its noble characters are familiar and often one-dimensional, and it has nothing particularly new to say about the mistreatment of homefront Japanese Americans.

14.   Just last Thursday, this hazy outcome seemed improbable.

15.   Maybe the outcome never seemed in doubt.

16.   Perhaps all that was needed to get them involved was a race in which the outcome did not seem inevitable.

17.   Regardless of what happens on direct lending, the outcome seems to be a victory for the coalition of college students and administrators.

18.   Six months ago such an outcome seemed unlikely.

19.   That outcome seemed to bolster the conviction of many Greeks that the United States, pursuing its own geopolitical interests, unfairly favors Turkey at the expense of Greece.