Sentence examples for preserved a semblance of from inspiring English sources

Even at its most risqué, Ovid at least preserved a semblance of mutual pleasure.

The two parties preserved a semblance of unity until after the election on June 7th, but now the undignified endgame has begun.

Over 30 groups control different towns and buildings in the cities, where fragile truces between militias and mayors preserve a semblance of normality.

Hazel and Robin, two retired nuclear scientists living in a coastal cottage in the wake of a disaster at a local power station, seek to preserve a semblance of normality.

One of Miliband's achievements as Labour leader, advertised even by those in the party who were sceptical about everything else, was an ability to preserve a semblance of unity.

It is the terrible winter of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, and members of the "sacred battalion" recruited from officers with no troops to lead, are proud enough to preserve a semblance of order and formation.

But the other EU countries – despite worries the arms would fall into the hands of Islamist rebels such as Jabhat al-Nusra – assented, to preserve a semblance of unified policy, since the refusal of Britain and France to go along with the arms embargo could have caused the collapse of all EU sanctions against Syria.

Amira Delalic, who worked as a receptionist, says the hotel's staff "developed their own survival strategies" in order to preserve a semblance of normality.

And there is the cynical deal to preserve a semblance of public idealism and pass convenient new anti-crime legislation.

In short, the Court may be poised to shred a century of judicial and legislative attempts to preserve even a semblance of restraint on how Big Money buys laws and legal decisions.

This revised "Law and Order" preserved an outer semblance of the original two-part structure -- the pairing that attracted both cop-show addicts and courtroom-drama fans, and that justified its binary title -- but it gave up on the rigors and complexities of that structure, often allowing one part to bleed sloppily over into the other.