1.   All three states have Republican-led legislatures that have acted with apparent disregard to the shift in public sentiment.

2.   For Rawls, their apparent disregard was almost as painful as the debilitating illness.

3.   His ease in public, his seeming candor and his apparent disregard for old-school maneuvering have managed to make Gore seem simultaneously clumsy and slick.

4.   At first a father figure, he lost support over rampant corruption, low wages and an apparent disregard for the problems of Romanians.

5.   But this was followed by a plethora of regional and local companies, often functioning with apparent disregard for passenger safety.