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A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.

As a lawyer, her knowledge of the schemes and apparent indifference to corruption seems like a very poor qualification as a regulator." ()

All around us, we see plants that have endured chronic ozone exposure with no apparent adverse symptoms except premature aging and reduced reproduction, ... Could this relate to the human experience? That's what we need to find out. But, in the meantime, it's important for us to determine how ozone exposure affects our forests, our wetlands, our crops, and even our backyards.

You saw the apparent schizophrenia of these teams. They play great for a while and then they have trouble operating. What you see is young teams learning to play a consistent game. No quality in the direction of their discipline.

Your veto would undermine all we are doing in California. Moreover, it would jeopardize our economic security for no apparent reason other than that of placating the short-sighted, protectionist demands of organized labor pressure groups.

This is the first step in taking this sport to heights that will become apparent years from now. This is a watershed moment in baseball history.

The upturn in MCV sales, which first became apparent around the middle of 2004, is clearly the driving force behind the market at present.

This could be a concealed explosive device without metallic parts. The apparent intention was to injure and scare people.

This has been coming for years, and now we're facing the crisis. I don't like it, but it's a choice of being dependent on the Russians or dependent on the space shuttle, and it's becoming more and more apparent that it's riskier to depend on the space shuttle.

They've come up with some sort of fine or something, or some sort of Notice of Apparent Liability, they're after me again, ... I don't care how many times, as long as they don't come after me personally.

Although the investigation is in its initial stages we have found no apparent connection to any type of terrorist activity or group.

A lot of the hurdles we would face were made very apparent to us.

A lot of the time I will go in a room and see that three or four animals right next door to each other are feather pickers, but that doesn't mean that they've learned it from each other. We wondered if unsocial things in the environment might be responsible for this apparent clumping of behavior.

They have a right to pick whoever they want. As a matter of fact, I got a call a couple days ago from a Minnesota Northern employee who was laid off for no apparent reason. So, there's no protection at all.

They get their deposits from a variety of sources. Some of it is savings but it is becoming more apparent that parents and grandparents are taking a greater role in helping out. In the case of grandparents, we have seen them taking out equity release loans to finance a deposit, and of course, there are inheritance tax considerations too.

There was no family fight just before, no mental illness. There was no apparent reason for him to take his life,

There's a chemistry out here that's tough to put your finger on, ... But it's apparent and obvious. We've known it and now others are learning about it.

There'll be a lot of short-term specials and apparent flurries of activity that will, on the surface, appear to bring prices down, but at the end of the year there will not have been a lot of progress.

This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.

At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.

The more you look at this, the more it's apparent he has no standards for his ministers in any area,

It's just frustration. We've all been there, except I have people watching when I break something. I'm mad with the way I played. I was competing well, then just let it get away for no apparent reason. I was fine until I just went mental at the end. I just checked out in the middle of the third set.

It was a situation where there are other receivers ahead of him on the depth chart and it became fairly apparent to us that he would not be in our long-term plans. We felt like this was the right opportunity to give Rod a chance to catch on with another team.

It is surprising that in early adolescence there is already evidence of this change, ... The fact that that is apparent even in young adolescents is of great concern.

It is quite apparent that India's current policy is heavily influenced by the US.

It is very apparent to me that is not what we want for our children,

It is very apparent that speed was a contributing factor in this collision.

It's almost a boilerplate meeting. At the last meeting there was widespread expectation that they would remove their pledge to maintain accommodative policy for 'a considerable period.' But the December employment figures made it very apparent that the job market continues to lag, and most observers have come to the conclusion that the Fed really does need to stay accommodative.

It quickly became apparent that the safeguards put in place to protect public money had failed.

It's very apparent that anybody can win. The rest of the country has shown that, on any given day, you can be beat if you're not ready.

It's not just what you spend on the major-league payroll. In the last year we've purchased a Double-A franchise (in Springfield, Mo.), paid more than double for early-round draft picks and opened an academy in the Dominican Republic. We've made a much greater investment in international scouting and player development. Perhaps those things aren't as apparent as major-league payroll, but they're there and they have tremendous significance.

It's not unusual for tires to experience some cosmetic cracking, and that is what we initially saw in this situation, ... As it became apparent that this was a unique circumstance, we decided a recall was the best course of action. With the design specification change, we believe we have taken the necessary steps to make sure this issue has been resolved.

It's the first key Fed speech since the scale of the devastation became apparent so that could be quite important if he is used as a vehicle to express Fed policy.

It's apparent they bring pressure. Just getting the ball out of your hands, you can't afford to take sacks, can't turn the ball over, all things that you're going to lose games if you do that stuff. We've got to make sure on Sunday night that those things don't happen.

It's apparent that the Labor Department had some problems seasonally adjusting for the Veterans Day holiday.

It's apparent that Major League Baseball is undertaking a strategy to limit the people who get these names and stats.

It's funny because I always thought I knew what I wanted to do. It became apparent to me that working for an investment bank for 13 months was 12 months too long.

It's been apparent for years that London will be a major center for the euro, ... the British banks are as well prepared as anyone.

It's become increasingly apparent that the law has become unpopular.

It's been more apparent to me in recent weeks. Every time a member is missing who wants to provide input on a bill, we try to accommodate that. But it's become too routine and too easy for a member to say they won't be here the next day and therefore want a bill held.

Despite all of the apparent progress, the industry remains quite manually intensive and could be prone to disruption should it face several large or simultaneous credit events.

It's still apparent that it's there. He's throwing and doing all that stuff, but we're still trying to get past that feeling. It doesn't hurt, but he knows it's present.

Stocks of apparent targets like Washington Mutual are going up. That's what the market's telling us: These banks are targets.

It needed to be apparent to everyone that there was fairness in the system.

It was apparent to me very early on that this was not an accident, ... The files that had been deleted were surgically removed from the database. They specifically were the files the company needed to survive.

It was apparent to me immediately that ... the media would be very interested and this wouldn't end with the weekend. It was clear enough by Monday morning that this was an extremely unusual circumstance.

It was apparent to me and others that that site has a lot of traffic. I saw families just walking across the site. You could see there's been a lot of vehicle traffic in there, and there was a lot of new graffiti on the buildings.

It was apparent that something was happening. Fortunately, we were able to move very quickly and come here.

it was apparent that it was the final moments for Mrs. Schiavo.

It was apparent that I needed a larger social circle, and a more active schedule.

It was apparent last year that if we would have hit a little bit more and executed a little bit better, our win mark would have been in the 90s.

It was apparent he wasn't going to be a top-notch dog there. So we sent him to Kansas, freshened him up and cleared out his head.

It was apparent from the early 80s that in order to do something lasting and significant in Haiti we would need a springboard in the States.

It was apparent for the last two years that we were going to get pressure from the other five conferences, ... That's why the BCS went to the presidents and said, 'We need you to take a more active role.'

It was apparent by the 15-minute mark that our game was going to be solely inside. The inside game we handled. Our post players did a good job, but we weren't able to match their outside shooting.

I've got to admit that it's the apparent impossibility of staging these shows that's part of the attraction.

No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions.

It was pretty apparent the last month or two that this day was going to come. I think it's better for Coach Martz and for the organization that it happened quicker, for him to find another job and for the team to find a replacement.

They know they're not going to come out right away. We took Emily out for a little bit (because of an apparent left ankle injury), but they can play with that. They've had to do it before. You have to learn to play with fouls.

They've got some legitimate concerns. We will fix whatever they suggest that we fix. It's pretty apparent that there needs to be better oversight.

Not unexpectedly, pre-trial rhetoric has amounted to bullying and posturing in the media's eye, ... prominent reputation includes no apparent lack of shyness as far as communicating with the media and outside observers is concerned.

The need to create a new taxonomy that isn't just applying to our own solar system will become so evident and apparent that something will come out of it. I'm sure of it, even if it's not tomorrow.

The need for this is apparent to anyone working in the field now.

The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.

After the officers extinguished the fire, they detected a strong odor of gasoline and located a melted plastic bottle at the base of the burned wall, and apparent accelerants in the bottle continued to burn.

As 2006 progresses, it may become apparent that for a more balanced and sustainable growth profile to become established, interest rates will have to rise.

SMR has a commitment to spending money to make money and they're not afraid to put money behind things they believe in. It's apparent everywhere in Lakewood Ranch.

At this point we're treating it as an apparent robbery gone bad. We're looking for anyone who may have seen anything there between 5 and 7 p.m. last night.

The lack of an heir apparent meant that nobody was interested in the stock. At least now there is a catalyst for more upside than before.

The issues at the federal level relate more to the disturbing racial composition of those who have been convicted and the apparent fact that almost all the convictions are coming out of just a handful of states, which raises the question of whether -- even though there is a uniform law across the country -- what your prosecution is may turn solely on where you committed the crime,

The council wants to thank and praise these men for their courageous actions, ... This story makes it apparent that this crew has a remarkable sense of teamwork and the personal integrity to risk their own safety for one another and the community.

The continued price increases are a result of many factors including low mortgage interest rates and the apparent impact of speculative investing.

The chip industry is on fire now. It looks pretty apparent we're in the early stages of an upturn in the entire semiconductor industry.

I'm not so sure that the appointment, or the apparent appointment, of Mr. Snow is the significant fact, but the fact that Mr. O'Neill is out. My guess is that almost anybody in there save Mr. O'Neill is going to be perceived as a positive by Wall Street.

I met a 13-year-old black child, Raymond, who had never been to school and had never learnt any words, yet it seemed to me that he was intelligent. It became apparent after a short period that Raymond thought in terms of visual signs and movements.

I have some heartburn with maybe doing some partial or full property tax shifts on this. It's become pretty apparent to me as I've been dealing with this ... there will be more states over next few years going to a unified statewide rate because of problems they're experiencing with their sales tax. We have states now above 12 percent with sales tax with most of their consumable goods.

In hindsight it is now clear and apparent that there was an exceptional level of stress placed upon ... O'Brien. The chain of command was responsible for this pressure.

Initially, I thought this is an abhorrent violence being foisted upon these great, still, abstract performances. And quite the opposite is apparent in the photographs - it's almost like looking at photographs of the canals of Mars or something. This tremendous inner softness emerges as the works are exposed.

In light of the apparent theft of certain artifacts, all of our displays are now under lock and key.

In all of this we have negotiated in good faith. It is now apparent that others have not,

I know what he's doing is impressive. He's been a rock for this team. I feel that's been apparent in his play.

I'm just telling you it is so apparent from the photographs that this woman was enormously impaired when she got to the party. There can be no question about that.

If Netanyahu had taken action on time to stop the disengagement plan, I wouldn't be here running. He didn't stand up when it became apparent that there was corruption. The only ones who stood up were a few rebels who proved that they couldn't be bought.

If we want to get anything done in our society and we want to have things run as smoothly as we can, somebody has to be in control, somebody has to have the responsibility, somebody has to have the accountability and it's very apparent it's got to be the a side that has the 51-50 vote,

If you analyze the district's finances, it's quite apparent there's sufficient revenue for next year and that the cuts are not necessary.

If you ask consumers, they'll tell you they want COOL, but it's apparent that Congress isn't listening. We've already watched members of the House dismiss their constituents by voting to delay this important consumer act. We urge the Senate not to follow in their footsteps. Consumers deserve to know where their meat is produced, and in light of all the problems our food system faces on a daily basis, COOL would serve as a vital precautionary measure.

In the final analysis, it was apparent to me that something's not working here, ... I know that's kind of nebulous, but it's the truth. It's hard to put a finger on it exactly, but it certainly just didn't appear to be working as we all envisioned.

In the current investment climate, it is apparent that NGN deployment cycles are going to be pushed out several years, which means the gateway approach is a viable means to 'sweat' additional Internet-related service revenues from the PSTN. While unit shipments of gateways will increase at a healthy rate over the forecast period, worldwide sales revenue is showing only modest growth as competition beats down prices and IMS-compliant gear begins to grab a foothold by simplifying interoperability requirements and thereby reducing the need for gateways.

In researching how to get it there and what was needed, it became apparent the need was extremely huge.

I really think, in the end, it probably doesn't matter for the Fed. They have made it clear that they want to be preemptive. They want to take action before signs of inflation are apparent so they can get ahead of the curve, and (that way) they have to do less in terms of raising interest rates instead of doing more.

I pronounced him dead at 12:30 p.m., ... The apparent cause of death is a single gunshot wound to the chest area. He has been taken by the Department of Forensics for an autopsy.

In today's world, it's becoming more apparent that information is becoming more valuable than the products that we produce.

If there was a projected need for it that would be one thing. There is no apparent need for that rate increase.

If there is anything that demonstrates to people the difference between what we stand for and what they stand for, it ought to be pretty apparent to them what it is,

If there is a need to tap state resources, then we'll cross that bridge. But that need is not apparent today.

Iraq continues to be an immense disaster, and the President has no apparent plan for getting our troops out.

Cisco certainly outdid the whisper numbers, so to speak. It is pretty apparent that estimates will be getting raised going forward.

His apparent care for his surroundings is ironic when you think he was responsible for one of the biggest ecocides when he drained the southern marshes.

California is the number one state we sell to, even though our headquarters is in Vernon Hills. As our business has grown, it became apparent we needed to be closer to our customers.

But I think it's an indication of the fact that the reasons for the terrible events of July 7, and the apparent attempt to recreate these events on July 21, are very complex indeed and it's not simply a question of competing ideologies as the prime minister would argue.