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Example sentences for: semblance

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In this it has lost sight of its true objective: to oust Saddam in the pursuit of a peace in the Middle East and a semblance of human rights in Iraq.
Nothing like him in Bosch or Breugel, nothing so denatured as to resemblenot a semblance of a human facebut the substance of some form made and then unmade, or like a lump of human butter excavated from a bog.
I'm for unions on principle--and in practical, self-interested terms, the union was what allowed me to make some semblance of a decent living when I worked there, not to mention its role in representing a militant staff culture and defending the autonomy of editors and writers, especially in the Murdoch era--but all that aside, the union has nothing to do with the Voice's editorial problems.
Moskovsky Komsomolets said that "even those who opposed the impeachment could not find a good word to say about Yeltsin and spoke against the impeachment solely in the interests of preserving a semblance of stability in the country."
Forget, too, the absence of even the semblance of evidence for Kinsey's inner state here as elsewhere: Kinsey "must have felt" ambivalence about gardening because it threatened his "fragile sense of masculinity."