How to Use "semblance" with Example Sentences

1. The church is fighting a desperate battle to retain a semblance of unity .
2. A semblance of political co-operation may last only until a second round of local elections on april 24th .
3. Though from the outset , central europeans suffered arbitrary expropriations and arrests , initially the soviet authorities sought to create the semblance of national independence and political pluralism .
4. On the other hand , it supersedes the one sidedness of the objective world , which is now , on the contrary , estimated as only a mere semblance , a collection of contingencies and shapes at bottom visionary .
5. Yet even if the power of mr saleh 's state has seldom extended beyond yemen 's main towns , roads and oilfields , it is remarkable that he has maintained even a semblance of control ( see book review ) .