Yet the increase did not seem to set the company back at all.

Last week, Germany still seemed to set its face against any alternative plan.

The strangest things seemed to set him off, sometimes almost nothing at all.

The day seemed to set new standards for price instability.

That seemed to set the stage for possible violence later this week.

"The West seems to set great store by the present party leadership," he said.

Somehow that morning seemed to set the pattern for the next few months of their marriage.

"They seem to set all the rest of them free."

You do not seem to set much store by that.

"People seemed to set limits in a way they haven't for a while," she said.