Sentence examples for to create some semblance of from inspiring English sources

So they had cadged some matzo and Manischewitz wine, hoping to create some semblance of the holiday.

Cassandra has a sneaking preference for a candidate from a developing country, if only to create some semblance of balance in international institutions.

Compared to the symposium, the editors of this book have tried to create some semblance of order to the sequence of papers.

Apple's entered the space, Samsung has released about 200 different devices and Google has attempted to create some semblance of consistency among dozens of new players — all while fitness wearable manufacturers have continued to blur the lines of what an exercise tracker can do.

You have to do something to create some semblance of a relationship with the person before asking for a favor.

In the translation to screen, the audience sees more of the character known as "Ma" and her heroic struggle to create some semblance of normalcy for her child — exercising, playing games, baking birthday cakes — within the confines of captivity.

Granted, my father was a product of two Holocaust survivors and I could not even fathom what harrowing experiences the two of them had to undergo just to get out alive, and create some semblance of a life out of the devastation of losing their own families to Hitler's senseless war on the Jews.

The allied force, the argument goes, will buy time and space to help the Afghans build more effective local, provincial and national governments, and create some semblance of an economy.

When empty-nesting clients of New York designer Amanda Nisbet recently halted plans to move out of their open-format, family-friendly space in Manhattan to something cozier and more functional, Nisbet quickly moved to Plan B. That involved creating some semblance of their dream home in the one they already had.

And by this, I don't mean going all in as investors did in the late 1990s, but creating some semblance of a balanced portfolio.

The deep human investment in creating some semblance of family life is one of the most striking themes in this book, and it is moving, but it comes with a price.