21.   Paradoxical as the prospect may appear, Milosevic himself might become the decisive voice in favor of his own extradition to The Hague for trial as a war criminal.

22.   Ramirez endorsed that view, counseling patience when prospects for peace appeared darkest and often offering compromises to keep the talks moving.

23.   Rubin and others said that prospect appeared to be heightened by the ideological chasm between, and the solidarity within, the Democratic and Republican Parties.

24.   So its political prospects appear bright.

25.   Still, inflation prospects appear muted, cooling investor demand.

26.   Their current L.A. prospects appear dim.

27.   The White House never had to intervene in the Delta dispute, but the prospect appears to have pushed the two sides to a deal.

28.   This prospect appears to have unsettled Leach, the lead federal prosecutor.

29.   Those prospects appear to be an economy slowing in its rate of growth, but not close to slipping into recession.

30.   Those prospects appeared bleak.