Seemingly strong people sometimes break down at the slightest bit of pressure.

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Japan was then seemingly strong.

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But those seemingly healthy results were undergirded by strong margins in its downstream refining business.

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The court heard Levene used his contacts and strong reputation to win over people with seemingly concrete investment deals from which he would take a commission or fee.

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Inevitably, the success of a seemingly recession-proof economy gets this country a very strong financial press - even if, as we noted a few weeks back, the talk over the coming months will be of whether it has been infected by the "Dutch disease", an over-reliance on the booming resources sector that is having a distorting effect on the economy as a whole.

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He wasn't Dan Marino or John Elway--strong, rifle-armed quarterbacks of the same era who were seemingly bred to play in the NFL. Flutie was unique, a throwback to the days when being a college star for its own sake was enough.

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