What is at first glance surprising is that so few mergers and acquisitions of banks have fallen into the antitrust net. |
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The colors are extremely vivid and work to amplify what at first glance appears to be an unruly fetishism of the exotic object. |
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Some of the designs seem, at first glance, a little too complex and just too plain clever for their or New York's good. |
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A cube at first glance shows the inside, and at second glance, the outside, protruding convexly into space. |
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The films he made look simple at first glance, yet already invite a more complicated response. |
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I don't follow the video game industry much, but at first glance it looks like Sega is making a good move. |
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The visual language of the adaptation is at first glance straightforward almost to the point of crudity. |
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The table at first glance seems to give the impression that almost half of the youth population takes a disco biscuit once or twice a year. |
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I thought it was a squirrel at first glance, but then wambengers kind of do look similar to squirrels. |
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There is, at first glance, an abyss between saying that one has had an experience of God and trusting that one can experience God in one's life. |
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But it is not the huge caricature the townies would take it for at first glance. |
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Midway between the hotel and the theatre I passed a series of shopfronts which, at first glance, appeared to have been converted into squats. |
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The steady improvement in records of all sporting events may, at first glance, look like biological evolution at work, but that is far-fetched. |
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The model's poses, at first glance sexually provocative, are actually those used by wolves. |
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A student of smarm, he roamed the land dispensing jam tins of cash to people who at first glance appeared to be businesslike. |
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The wreckers hauling in salvage nets look like fishermen at first glance, but closer inspection reveals the traces of a shipwreck. |
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Still, at first glance it's an attractive if simple steel case with a plastic fascia. |
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While these statistics may not seem impressive at first glance, they are in fact monumental. |
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The murder of Taylor seemed at first glance incomprehensible, once the obvious robbery motive had been ruled out. |
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Some of the communes allowed anyone to join, which seemed at first glance like a good thing. |
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Echeverria's space appears, at first glance, to expand and deterritorialize the limits of El Hoyo. |
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Yes, it was at first glance quaint and seemingly out of time, but it was also monumentally impressive and alive. |
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While at first glance brittle Callie is a somewhat tired stereotype of the jaded New Yorker, she's easy to warm up to. |
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However, the covers are generally woeful, neither standing out at first glance amidst a crowded newsstand, or providing any lasting meaning. |
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While attendance may seem decent at first glance, a closer look reveals very few students. |
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It looked very tough at first glance but when I worked out what they were looking for, I settled down. |
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Maybe he was older than he looked at first glance in the dark, and possibly drunk? |
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As would be expected, however, there is much more going on within the picture than is apparent at first glance. |
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This seems to offer little guidance at first glance, however some common ground is starting to emerge. |
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A grotesque formation vase catches the attention of guests at first glance. |
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Her clever collage and striking photographs are, at first glance, simple and beautiful. |
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This difference, which seems subtle at first glance, is actually quite dramatic. |
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What may seem odd and unstructured at first glance, he insists, will soon seem fun and spontaneous. |
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Was this audacious accounting, or the kind of thing that at first glance seems like clear misrepresentation? |
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Admittedly, I did get the feeling that extended exposure to its naive style might weary me, but at first glance? |
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Edinburgh's a binary system, but other than that novelty, it looks fairly uninteresting at first glance. |
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People who have been bitten by a snake are afraid of garden hoses at first glance. |
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First, it dilutes the color of undesirable liquids making their undesirableness less apparent at first glance. |
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While this is, at first glance, a compliment, it turns out to be a rather cack-handed one. |
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This haiku by one of Japan's greatest poets seems at first glance to have little to it. |
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For opportunities appear, at first glance, to have a happy knack of falling into the lap of the third season trainer. |
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The van Gogh olive grove landscapes in this gallery at first glance seemed beside the point. |
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I could see what she meant, as the Mitsubishi Outlander does not, at first glance, scream chunky Chelsea tractor. |
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There is a marked return to double-breasted coats, discretion at first glance giving way to luxurious linings of mink and chinchilla. |
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Just at first glance, I could see a good hundred million people idling around outside and in the hallways waiting to catch their bait. |
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Many of the paintings in the exhibition at first glance look as though they were painted with water-based Japanese pigments. |
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Shapewear and hosiery items may seem small at first glance. Keep in mind that these items tend to stretch to fit your natural shape. |
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To create new things, we need the privilege of developing new scenarios that are not rational or promising at first glance. |
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All designs, except the series by Roger Pfund and the modern series from the Jünger team, were perceived as banknotes at first glance. |
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Though the transfer is acceptable at first glance, print damage and white spots are noticeable repeatedly throughout the film, far more than can be reasonably expected. |
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In a current women's magazine, one advertisement shows a bare-chested hunk on a sunset beach holding what appears at first glance to be a boogie board. |
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Moving down from the dashboard the gear-lever has a brushed alloy cover which, at first glance, makes this six-speed manual look like an automatic. |
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A lily-white body decorated with chocolate appears at first glance to be a confection. |
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Let me start by suggesting that auditors and archivists have more in common than might be obvious at first glance. |
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They also hunted wild pigs as well as the babirusa or pig deer, so named because of their long legs and elongated tusks that curl over the head, at first glance like horns. |
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But at first glance, the study of American presidential elections seems to belie that characterisation. |
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With their armored head shield and trunk shield composed of overlapping bony plates, the placoderms appear at first glance extremely similar to the ostracoderms. |
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The second clue is that many of the rocks have very conspicuous ripple marks on, which at least at first glance resemble those we might find on a common day seashore. |
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In texture and size they look, at first glance, like very close-grained, asymmetric versions of one of Bridget Riley's prismatically divided, coloured abstracts. |
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It gives people the chance to meet potential partners they might rule at first glance if they saw a picture of them on the Internet or at a dating agency. |
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With my short Mohawk that looks like a crew-cut at first glance or under a hat, my army jacket, baggy work jeans and boots, I could easily be a pubescent boy. |
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The business of writing obituaries may seem, at first glance, a morbid affair. |
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This might seem sensible at first glance, but is it really better for the environment? |
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You'd reckon, at first glance, that Rupert Murdoch's own game of thrones was well nigh over. |
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Taiwanese manufacturer Luxpro has debuted the Super Shuffle at CeBIT in Hanover, a product that at first glance looks exactly like the iPod Shuffle. |
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This type of tiling appears at first glance to be careless and unplanned, but it requires a great deal of skill. |
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Let us now analyze, take apart, dissect this motion, which, at first glance, may seem very confusing. |
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Unmistakable: the striking rear light design shows everyone at first glance that a genuine Bürstner is on the road. |
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As for the judgment of sin being entrusted to the public assembly rather judging for oneself, at first glance polytheism really seems to show tolerant justice. |
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The two major complaints minority communities have against the police seem at first glance paradoxical. |
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Heidelberg, unmarred by bombs, was at first glance as reassuring as familiar walls when one wakens from a wicked dream. |
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Looking at the aggregated research, that would, at first glance, seem to be the case. |
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Most boring bits, at first glance, may look the same except for size. |
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There is time available to consider that which one may not normally be drawn to or perhaps at first glance may appear to be insignificant. |
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What seemed like a great deal at first glance could end up costing a lot more than bargained for, or may not be what was needed. |
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Other putative antiterror measures seem more reasonable at first glance. |
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What may be tempting at first glance only leads to unsatisfied customers later on. |
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We are confronted by a situation which at first glance seems impossible to resolve. |
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The answer to that question is more difficult than appears at first glance. |
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Not much at first glance, one might assume: all of these substances accomplish a special function or purpose in different chemical reactions. |
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The packaging for the cheese portions was completely redesigned to make this special characteristic recognisable at first glance. |
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The question of whom to entrust the creation of the site only at first glance seems simple and quickly solved. |
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Despite its small size, aquaculture is subject to a good deal of controversy, which is surprising at first glance. |
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The footbridge is, at first glance, unremarkable. |
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The results, at first glance, were provocative. |
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The lower leaves' original featherlike lobes are a good identification marker to differentiate it from other capitulum-flowered plants that can look similar at first glance. |
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The pure-bred Eskimo would at first glance seem to most of us Europeans anything but beautiful. |
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Yet on a recent visit to the Republic of Malta I confess that, at first glance, I found it a bit. |
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Although at first glance the proposed programme budget might appear excessive, it was very modest compared with the vast sums spent on weapons and with the budgets of other entities. |
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Therefore, essential contestability is not a part of emotivist moral theories which at first glance occupy a similar position. |
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It may seem like something of an oxymoron to say that because, at first glance, a person might think that if the diseases and disorders are so very rare then how can it be that so many people's lives are affected. |
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The theory behind this is not very complicated at first glance. |
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The work itself is very simplistic, featuring only the shark in a watery substance, which at first glance looks clear like glass. |
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Educational statistics for Latin America at first glance show an ideal situation with many countries evincing rates of nearly 100 percent in gross primary school enrollment. |
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Because the Bodos are a small minority in the council areas but will have 30 seats out of 46 in the council, the new council at first glance does not seem to be democratic. |
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These proposals are interesting at first glance. |
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Biancheri sees himself as a rational lunatic, who will from now on devote himself to something which may appear impossible at first glance, but which he knows as being politically necessary and feasible. |
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Almost 7 metres long, 4.5 metres wide, 13 tonnes in weight and windowless, at first glance the space lab resembles an enormous tin can that you can only enter and leave through a tiny airlock. |
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Perhaps that is why so few choreographers make consistent use of this choreographic aid, which, at first glance, robs them of their creative authority. |
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This office appears disorganized at first glance. |
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The S 1197 is folding table that does not give away this practical characteristic at first glance. It has clear, reserved aesthetics and high quality in its materials and processing. |
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Like many propositions that look irresistible at first glance, claims outsourcing has proven a compelling but elusive goal for many insurers. |
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However, at first glance, it did not seem plausible that the young hoodlum, XXXXXX, would have waited two weeks before warning the claimant against any attempt to compromise or expose him. |
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Personal computers came in at about the right time, or so it seems at first glance. |
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Now, at first glance, it might seem that B O'B is the odd man out on the list of Iowa summiteers. |
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His paintings are white, and often seem unspectacular at first glance. |
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This title may seem contradictory at first glance, for globalization could be viewed as quite the antithesis of traditionality. |
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My decolorized works have the appearance of paintings at first glance, but because they are created with the use of outside force to remove colors already existing in the real world they tend to take three-dimensional form. |
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This may seem high at first glance, but it provides a clear incentive for enterprises to push an envisaged hedge fund to disclose its investment to the investor. |
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Contrariwise, some researchers advocate greater recognition of the qualitative methods and cultural factors, even in the studies that at first glance seem more related to quantitative type methods. |
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Given that three of the first five home all raced close to the pace, that was probably a better effort from Double Star than it appeared at first glance. |
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The faint glow coming from the wooded terrain just beyond a cluster of Tennessee cabins called Elkmont looks like common lightning bugs at first glance. |
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Most famous for the last and largest member of the clade, Tyrannosaurus rex, tyrannosaurids at first glance seem very far removed from the ostrichlike ornithomimosaurs. |
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