21.   The statement appeared certain to be sharply rebuffed.

22.   The statement appears to fly in the face of comments Gazprom Chairman Rem Vyakhirev made to the Wall Street Journal earlier this week.

23.   The statement appeared to signal that the United States would not act on its own again.

24.   The statement appears to devalue the horror of the camp by offering an inaccurate description of a limited and generally professional military operation against a secessionist area of Croatia.

25.   These statements have appeared in the papers before.

26.   Twain said many memorable things, but that particular statement appears not to have been among them.

27.   When controversial statements by Mas appear in the press, he is quick to charge that the media is out to get him.

28.   Without addressing more specifically the relationships among these sectors, the statement appears to be simply warning against an overemphasis on any one of them.

29.   A similar statement appeared in the film.

30.   But at a news conference Wednesday, Yastrzhembsky suggested otherwise, and his brief statement Thursday appeared to confirm that Russian missiles have targeted Japan.