Sentence examples for a semblance of it from inspiring English sources

When they look at the subject's visual cortex while the subject is watching, they can sort of recreate what they are seeing — or a semblance of it.

Legitimacy is the issue — and the king, to the extent that he had a semblance of it, has lost it in the streets of Manama.

While the Malian government and some rebel groups in the north lurch toward a semblance of peace, it launches attacks in the Inner Niger Delta, converting traditional nomadic routes into the newest front line of the global war on terror.

Granted, Civil War has plenty of allusions, callbacks, flashbacks and narrative bricklaying, but it accomplishes it with a semblance of elegance that renders it close to seamless.

It shows that, at last, Nepal is returning to a semblance of normality, but it also represents a legacy of terrible danger.

There is a semblance of peace, but it is a fragile and weak peace".

Had "Babymother" evoked even a semblance of social realism, it might have amounted to something more than a candy-colored, beat-driven show-business fantasy.

A weak transitional government has received millions of dollars from the United States and the United Nations to establish a semblance of order, but it has succeeded in controlling only a few city blocks of Mogadishu.

The problem isn't just that Trump doesn't want to imitate a candidate with a semblance of rational bearing; it's that he's not believable when he does.

By David Remnick August 17, 2016 The problem isn't just that Trump doesn't want to imitate a candidate with a semblance of rational bearing; it's that he's not believable when he does.

Maybe we will find that out at Friday's question-and-answer session but Woodward has apparently been describing the Argentinian to colleagues as "this year's Nicolás Gaitán" – in reference to the Benfica midfielder, who is linked to United every summer without a semblance of truth in it.