Well, first, any semblance of a strong local economy must be killed.
But baseball's union is too strong to allow the owners any semblance of order.
Rwanda, torn apart by genocide six years ago, has seen the emergence of some strong women's organizations committed to rebuilding a semblance of normality for their families.
Here was a heartening indicator that New York may be getting back to some semblance of normalcy: Plácido Domingo, still going strong as Otello, and James Levine in the pit, as tireless as ever.
Any semblance of courage left to break out is snubbed so strong that it forgets its own existence.
Position battle to watch: No matter how strong the Stanford defense may be, the team will struggle again unless it can find some semblance of consistency at the quarterback position.
Tehran too had a vested interest in seeing some semblance of order brought to Afghanistan even if it wasn't in a very strong position to impose its preferred solution.
The idea is to give their worlds some semblance of order and direction, and move them back to their home school, wiser and stronger.
Naoto Kan, the prime minister, who started the crisis with very low public support, has so far managed to keep a semblance of order in the country, despite a series of calamities that would challenge even the strongest of leaders.
Only Kinnear feels confident enough in his role to ride roughshod over the airwaves, although even he has lost the gusto that saw proclaim to the world that he would make Newcastle better and stronger upon his appointment, lest we forget, on a three-year deal, back in June, when what little semblance of sense at this football club ended.
