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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.
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.
A possibly apocryphal story from Herman Oliver's Gold and Cattle Country concerns a local prominence once called Squaw Tit (not all of the pioneers being missionaries); the Geographic Board decided the name was too earthy and, wishing to retain a semblance of the original appellation changed the name to Squaw Butte ; when the map came out with the new name, the final e was unfortunately omitted.
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."