The improbable roots of all this lay in the only semblance of education Finlay received: wartime service in the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC).
Below a dirt path three miles from Georgetown where darkness had settled in and the only semblance of civilization was the headlights of commuters on Canal Road racing home to the suburbs, I looked around to see if anyone could hear or see me.
And it's still not so easy to reach: the two-flight, roughly four-hour trip from Manila (including a layover in Cebu) has only the semblance of a schedule part of the year because of mercurial weather.
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 only semblance of such guidelines was in the form of a declaration of assets which all civil servants complete upon commencement of employment with the government.
9 Prior to that time, the Court of Appeals of New York, in construing the words 'imitation or semblance' as they appeared in another section of the New York law directed at the regulation of oleomargarine, had interpreted them as denouncing trade in oleomargarine only when the manufacturer consciously and purposefully attempted to create an imitation or semblance of milk products.
The only semblance of equilibrium we have ever neared in housing supply and demand was after the war, and that was thanks to the biggest public investment in housing we have ever seen.
I became an anorexic for the reason most women do, because I felt it was the only semblance of control I could exert in my life.
Their only semblance of a drive -- 10 plays, 31 yards -- led to Araguz's 42-yard field goal, which tied the score at 3-3 early in the second quarter.
Most nights, they're the only semblance of law enforcement.
From the perspective of these times, the story of two Depression-era ranch hands thwarted in their efforts to create their own home seems to possess only the semblance of moral complexity, not moral complexity itself.
