Sentence examples for semblance of authority from inspiring English sources

After successfully arguing for the chance to test a new Army counterinsurgency strategy that he himself wrote, General Petraeus flooded Iraq's cities with American forces, creating the military presence necessary to re-establish at least a semblance of authority in areas that had been taken over by extremist militias or terrorist groups.

How can Pardew demand discipline and control from his players, and deliver this message with any semblance of authority, when he is such a serious serial offender himself?

Perhaps that same semblance of authority can explain why young, college-bound women seem to be employing the creak.

I scan over the questions and read them out with some semblance of authority I do not have.

Perhaps three years of residency training and four years of medical school lends at least a semblance of authority to my diminutive frame.

There was a semblance of authority and structure there that was so far away in 2006," said Walter, who is now pursuing a mechanical engineering degree at UCLA.

Advertisements on the front of the ubiquitous cards may appear in any color, and no semblance of the authority's logo is required.

"She understood the symbols of authority, the need for some semblance of national majesty after the disaster," Manchester wrote; whether she agreed explicitly or not, there was an understanding that when Johnson took the oath she would be present.

Up to 2,000 residents of the Calais Jungle migrant camp are scrambling to avoid destruction of their only semblance of a home after French authorities gave them just three days to move out.

In Sana'a, the capital, he has taken cautious steps towards re-establishing central authority and restoring a semblance of normal politics.

Critics described the proposed revision as one of the most explicit backward steps in legal protections for people who offend the Chinese authorities since the country began moving toward the semblance of a Western-style legal system three decades ago.