21.   The dispute only seems silly.

22.   The dispute seemed to put Tung in an awkward spot as well.

23.   The dispute seems to be deepening rifts between the administration and research scientists.

24.   The dispute seemed to be little more than political posturing on both sides.

25.   The dispute seems to illustrate the uncertain ownership of Russian brands and trademarks, and it escalated into a legal battle that continues in U.S. courts.

26.   The dispute also seems likely to focus new attention on an effort to eliminate affirmative action in all other aspects of state government through a ballot initiative.

27.   The Kashmir dispute seems as intractable as ever.

28.   To an outsider, the dispute at first seems eminently solvable.

29.   Viewed from that perspective, the dispute seems musty and senseless, an anachronism of a bloody era.

30.   What makes the arguments particularly strange is the fact that the underlying dispute seems relatively trivial.