31.   Their presence here seemed to signal both a genuine desire for some degree of reconciliation and a genuine concern about their everyday estrangement from each other.

32.   Within a God whose presence seems ever fainter as war and cruelty grow more frequent?

33.   Still, the army presence seems tenuous.

34.   Yet his understated presence seems of little importance to him.

35.   Even the low-key police presence seemed superfluous, as the elections unravelled in an atmosphere of calm with no incidents so far reported.

36.   Their presence seemed to touch off the anger of the local Croats, including new arrivals now living in Serb houses.