At first glance, it seems like snow, but...

At first glance, the picture seems extremely gloomy.

I know it sounds very complicated.

And for a while that was looking really good.

It gives you the false impression it's a map.

At first sight I didn't recognise you

At first glance, this was a rational and predictable outcome.

At first sight, China seems to be an exception.

At first glance, Bush s task looks easy.

And when you first encounter them, they look like this deep and mysterious thing.

At first glance, everything looked the same.

Like olives, dear, you acquire a taste for it.

At first glance, there seems to be no problem.

They are so often the only, or the very first time that anybody has ever seen the remains.

At first sight, this landscape painting seems to depict the three orders in society

At first glance, European social democracy appears to be in crisis.

There may not be as much conflict between these two agendas as first appears.

At first glance, Russia bears many of the hallmarks of a great power.

At first glance, a surgical strike may look tempting.

So meritocracy seems preferable, at least at first sight.

Our first impression is of an urban Adam and Eve, ... ... or a moment of flirtation in the forest.

This will prove more difficult than it first sounds.

So they, they sound scary, but they're actually always sort of fun and interesting. We'll study game theory models.

At first glance, it seems pretty clear that there isn't that much air up there. So was JFK right?

On one hand, he appears to be an educated and dynamic leader committed to modernizing Russia.

This idea is attractive at first sight. But here, too, the reference to the US experience is misleading.

Indeed, at first glance, pursuing such a change in Italy appears simple.

The solution would at first appear to lie in the design and implementation of policies geared towards economic growth.

At first glance the question of the responsibilities of international organizations in the sphere of fundamental rights seems paradoxical.

America faces a trade off between security and liberty, but the relationship is more complex than it appears at first glance.

At first glance, this looks like a classic case of a large country bullying a small country into submission.

At first sight, the Ivory Coast s post colonial history looks like a variation on standard themes.

The existing information and what you self discover may at first seem skimpy and difficult to connect to other bodies of knowledge.

Although not as intuitively obvious, human rights have a role to play in prevention of these types of displacements as well.

And these things are so exciting. They are so often the only, or the very first time that anybody has ever seen the remains.

Since security is a key element of many other domains of human life and development, the stakes are much higher than those visible at first sight.

Her delegation also opposed the inclusion of the clean hands criterion on the grounds that, in many cases, it could not be established prima facie.

At first glance, it may seem that France chose NATO at the expense of the ten year old European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP).

At first glance, it seems reasonable that political parties might be able to translate women s gender consciousness into a unified voting bloc.

As in the 1970 s, there are more links than may at first appear between the apparently new problems of 2010 2011.

At first glance, it seems incredibly generous and statesman like for G 8 leaders to endorse debt relief for the world s poorest nations.

PRINCETON There are historical precedents for sovereign debt defaults by the countries of Europe s southern periphery, but they are not instantly attractive ones.

At first glance, it seems plausible. Indeed, traditional balance of power theory suggests that US primacy in power resources should be offset by a Sino Russian partnership.

So meritocracy seems preferable, at least at first sight. But, on closer inspection, things are not so simple.

What about today s New New China, with its skyscrapers, modern highways, and unbridled capitalism? The reality is not as gleaming as it first looks.