In both cases what look at first sight to be damaging symptoms caused by an infection are actually adaptive (though unpleasant) responses to it.

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Durban: To someone based in Europe, the demands, at first sight, seem both unconscionable and completely unrealistic.

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Many of the problems in both South Korean politics and the economy appear deeper and more entrenched than at first sight.

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The position of Turkey, which is becoming a little too fond of spanner-throwing (see article), and Brazil is at first sight more solid: they say that the resolution has sunk both the chance of talks with Iran and their own plan to remove uranium.

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