| Some liberal arguments about the significance of this case seem tendentious and overblown. |
| The premise remains interesting, but the plot is cluttered with schemes and counter-schemes that seem unrealistic at best and pointless at worst. |
| For the reasons given earlier, an oral contract evidenced only by a re-cap telex, does not seem to me to qualify for this purpose. |
| His personal failings also seem to have increased the strain and told against him. |
| Tendencies towards autocracy seem embedded in the country's political culture. |
| So all the things the Senate has been trying to do to try to backstop our national labs seem to have been for naught to date. |
