1.   The continuing impasse in negotiations made military conflict seem likely.

2.   Any conflict seemed to be erased when he reported to summer camp in Wichita Falls, Texas, with the Cowboys, his third team in four years.

3.   At the same time, the Afghan conflict seems to have confirmed Osama bin Laden as a folk hero.

4.   But the conflict seems, at last, to be edging toward a political settlement.

5.   But this week, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems more likely to top the list.

6.   But until recently, the conflict has seemed mostly stagecraft.

7.   Conflict seems as durable and immovable as the mammoth stone walls that surround the ancient city.

8.   Future conflict seems possible between Lebed and other leaders, including Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin or even Yeltsin.

9.   He admitted, however, that conflict seemed to reign.

10.   He correctly observed that future conflict seemed inevitable.