Sentence examples for provided a semblance of from inspiring English sources

The Sadrists provided a semblance of security and helped provide basic local services such as rubbish collection.

The number of people claiming jobseeker's allowance fell by 7,000 to 1.53 million provided a semblance of a silver lining, indicating a fall in government costs.

I guess I can consider myself lucky, since the garment factories in the 1970's and 80's provided a semblance of allowing my mother, a seamstress, the slight hope of earning a wage slightly above the poverty level.

For Mr. Fuijee and his family, the water and sanitation aid has provided a semblance of normalcy in an otherwise abnormal and stressful setting.

WOODWARD And as the fighting grew worse, people welcomed the Taliban for providing a semblance of law and order?

To say that this creates suspense would be an overstatement, but it at least provides a semblance of closure.

Instrumental playing from La Nuova Musica under conductor David Bates is delicate and much more deadpan, providing a semblance of chasteness.

In practice, democracies have fudged the issue by lifting the veil of secrecy just enough to provide a semblance of accountability.

Because it is her first relationship in years to provide a semblance of affection, she grabs on to Selby and hangs on ferociously.

At the time it was hailed by the corporation as providing a semblance of long-term certainty for its funding arrangements.

Labour appeared to have decided: "Sod this for a game of soldiers, providing a semblance of opposition is way too much hassle, let's have a lie-in until May 2015".