Sentence examples for semblance of efficiency from inspiring English sources

Or function at all with any semblance of efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability.

Some lamented that Digicel, the private telecommunications company offering BlackBerry service in Haiti, had not yet restored its network, keeping senior officials from communicating with a semblance of efficiency.

When political observers argue, as the New York Times did, that President Obama's website issue "threatens the rest of his agenda but also raises questions about his competence in the same way that the Bush administration's botched response to Hurricane Katrina undermined any semblance of Republican efficiency", they are making an argument that is grounded almost entirely on a myth.

On the paper's front page, one of its White House correspondents, Michael D. Shear, wrote that the "disastrous rollout" of the Affordable Care Act not only threatens the rest of the President's agenda, "but also raises questions about his competence in the same way that the Bush administration's botched response to Hurricane Katrina undermined any semblance of Republican efficiency".

Over time, a semblance of normalcy returned.

A semblance of normal life has returned.

Some semblance of spring had momentarily arrived.

A semblance of political comedy.

But I also wanted some semblance of tradition.

Slowly, the war's end brought a semblance of peace.

He gains some semblance of peace and spirituality.