Insiders, giddy with the company's seeming success, joked about the company's aggressive accounting department.

But for all its seeming success, the company is at a critical point.

She professed to be able to raise thunderstorms, though her seeming success was generally laid to some uncanny knack at prediction.

Despite the seeming success, however, the Gimlet was already becoming obsolete; guided missiles were now considered to be the wave of the future.

But he points out that his seeming overnight success has been a quarter-century in the making.

Despite its romantic inception, Ms. Carey's seeming overnight success has been anything but simple fortune.

Despite their seeming success as therapists, engineers and administrators, most spoke of stunted professional opportunities.

His seeming success here will come back and defeat - and destroy - him later.

And they have the seeming early success of Amazon's tablet strategy with the Fire to emulate too.

Inflation targeting, which has been used with seeming success in Britain and several other prospering countries, may be a fine idea.