1.   Furthermore, successive governments have appeared to accept this definition of ethnic relations as largely a question of immigration control.

2.   The government appears to be putting more money into education.

3.   The government appears to be taking a conciliatory approach to the indigenous unrest.

4.   Some foreign governments appear happy to gloss over continued human rights abuses.

5.   The government appears to be in a quandary about what to do with so many people.

6.   The government appears to have miscalculated and bills are higher as a result.

7.   The government appeared to discourage any such speculation, however.

8.   The report stated that the government appears to have given the security forces carte blanche to kill and torture in Casamance in response to attacks from its opponents.

9.   These reports were disputed by US intelligence officers who said that the government appears to be in control.

10.   Such suspicions were reinforced by the relative equanimity with which the US government appeared to have accepted the decision.