Sentence examples for some semblance of control from inspiring English sources

It is remarkable how many attempts were made by outsiders to bring some semblance of control to Syria's spiralling war.

If the owners had scrapped the two-league system to get the umpires back into some semblance of control, that would have been a noble cause.

It is about maintaining some semblance of control, the erosion of which it is thought would be complete if women were allowed to drive.

Games give us some semblance of control in an illogical and chaotic world; beguilingly, they reward and punish us in a logical, reassuring way.

The hunt is one of the few ways in which the region's runaway population of whitetailed deer is kept under some semblance of control.

The protests continued sporadically and last month the army had to invade some of Rio's favelas to restore some semblance of control ahead of the June deadline.

The reboot is intended to make him look decisive and put the policy debate back under some semblance of government control.

Taliban soldiers looted the medical compound on their way out of the city Monday morning, the staff said, and then the hospital was looted some more by local citizens before the Northern Alliance established some semblance of civic control.

In an attempt to regain some semblance of the control he had lost, Duley picked up his camera and turned the lens on himself.

But what Republicans need are some semblance of party control.

A big challenge for the team was taking the vastly different controllers for those systems and creating some semblance of a standard control set.