Sentence examples for despite the semblance from inspiring English sources

And the Tweed Run, despite the semblance of tradition, has only been going since 2009, when it began under the sponsorship of Brooks saddles.

And even these Kurdish fighters, despite the semblance of unified command by the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government, are made up of two separate forces controlled by the rival parties that dominate different parts of Iraqi Kurdistan.Back in Libya, there is not one but two rival governments: one in the capital, Tripoli, and the other in the eastern city of Tobruk.

Musicologist and author Ian MacDonald calls the album "erratic and often hollow", despite the "semblance of unity and coherence" offered by the medley.

Painting (citrābhāsa, literally "the semblance of sculpture") ranks third.

Verisimilitude, the semblance of reality in dramatic or nondramatic fiction.

By the mid-1970s, Maritime Command had reorganized into the semblance of a naval staff.

Absent even the semblance of a public transport system, the motorcycle-taxis were vital.

This requires leaders representing differing philosophies to stand, so that we have the semblance of choice.

Indeed, Laos has not even the semblance of an opposition and certainly no free press.

He also needs respectable politicians to give his new interim government the semblance of legitimacy.

Fig. 3. Results of the semblance analysis.