31.   The statement seems to have been taken out of context.

32.   The statements also seemed timed to improve the image of the IRA and Sinn Fein before President Clinton arrives in Ireland later this week.

33.   The statement seemed to suggest that it believed new direct military contacts might be opened outside the forum of the Military Armistice Commission.

34.   The statements seemed doubly wounding in a country where indirection is the norm and where difficult reality is often hidden behind soft words.

35.   Those statements seemed aimed at the financial markets, and if the robust performance of the rupiah has been any guide, they hit home.

36.   While some Japanese leaders have apologized for the war, the statements often seem to come not from the heart but from committees in the Foreign Ministry.

37.   Although they did not comment on reports that the garrison had been captured, the statement seemed to contradict those claims.

38.   But the statement seemed to suggest that more intense exercise had little benefit.

39.   For the Ganassi team, that statement seems realistic, given its history.

40.   His statement seemed to be at odds with previous rejections by Turkey of a longstanding Greek Cypriot proposal for complete demilitarization of the island.