1.   Fagin produced some beer, and as the fight appeared to be over, everybody sat down.

2.   As the confirmation fight appeared to be moving swiftly to a close, liberal interest groups kept up their effort against Ashcroft.

3.   As it now stands, a more pressing fight appears to be brewing over tax cuts.

4.   But the first fight appeared to spark the Local Nine.

5.   Interesting fights appeared to be a thing of the past, particularly disturbing things were happening in the ring and no change seemed to be in sight.

6.   Several outside officials said the fight appeared to result from an argument between the president and his generals, who seem to have grown increasingly dissatisfied with Kabila.

7.   Smith, a union vice president, acknowledged that the fight appears to pit players against players.

8.   The fight appeared likely to add one more in a series of regional political struggles confronting President Ernesto Zedillo.

9.   The fight would appear to be a tossup.

10.   The food fight did not appear to have racial overtones, investigators said.