Words similar to semblance

Example sentences for: semblance

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Philip of Burgundy began to bring some semblance of unification to the Low Countries (the region which roughly translates to the Netherlands and Belgium) in the 1420s.
Under Milosevic, Albanians lost all semblance of autonomy . They were removed from jobs in the party and government.
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 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 a country with a century of national unity and the scalding experience of Mussolini’s fascism, sports seem almost the only activity that can inspire any semblance of patriotic fervor in Italians.