And that is why the outcome seems in doubt.

The outcome of the battle seem to have been some sort of draw.

There seem only two possible outcomes to the present impasse.

A decade and a half ago that outcome would have seemed impossible.

Yet the outcome does not seem to be in much doubt.

The outcome of the exchange seemed to catch the Mayor's defense team by surprise.

Once the war started, the basic outcome seems, in this account, almost foreordained.

There seem three conceivable different outcomes in the middle term.

The outcome seemed to be in line with a left-wing decline across Europe.

The outcome of those talks seemed promising only two weeks ago.