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Example sentences for: semblance

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Moreover, LSC wanted to encourage all programs to pursue some semblance of planning.
Pressured by Gina's spooky uncle (a superbly restrained turn by Burt Young) into auctioning off a paranoid son's painting--a resurrected Jesus putting holes in disloyal disciples with a submachine gun--Michael must simultaneously keep the gangsters happy, his fiancee (who'll pull the plug on the engagement if she finds out he's enmeshed in the family business) in the dark, the FBI from discovering the collusion, and--most important in farce--a semblance of dignity.
I can understand your wanting to shame the Wall Street Journal with some semblance of mathematical rigor, but Lord knows we poor scientists have to defend ourselves against enough nonsense posing as science ("Mister Chairman, how can that 10 year study show us anything about bears when my cousin told me he never saw a bear in his life?"
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.