He did so, however, in the manner of a threat to be implemented in the event some semblance of the old order of the Soviet Union is not preserved.
Then he elaborated for ten minutes while we listened, glanced, made notes, riffled the textbook to find refuge in print, some semblance of meaning that might be roughly equivalent to what he was saying.
We have made some semblance of progress in Iraq, but Afghanistan is an entirely different situation.
With both sides tarring their opponents as traitors and agents of foreign powers, the semblance of unity in Mr Siniora's government unravelled.
In an effort to provide some semblance of stability, Prudential preannounced elements of its third-quarter results.
We need to go back to square one, and get some semblance of organization there in terms of the law enforcement aspects of these things.
It was only after the government finally unleashed the Israel Defense Force in Judea and Samaria that a semblance of normality returned again to the city.
Whereas Iran must maintain some semblance of plausible deniability in its subversive activities, the correspondingly lesser scrutiny and import given to Latin America allows Chavez to openly tout his "Bolivarian Socialism" throughout the region.
Immediately after receiving a semblance of legal title in 1841 under the Convention of Chuenpi, the British began their first municipal building project, a cemetery for the legions of colonisers taken by dysentery and malaria.
That's unless the television and radio advertising campaign now under way can engender some semblance of public awareness in a region comprising five of the 41 police force areas outside London where elections are being held.
With massive infrastructure problems and violent clashes continuing, it will take years for a semblance of stability to set in.
As the movement descended into violence, she sought refuge in books, trying to maintain a semblance of an education.
The first priority is to restore some semblance of stability and order in the market and restore the flow of credit.
Speaking of free-to-play, 2011 also saw the release of Dungeon Hunter 3, in which Gameloft abandoned the pay model in favor of freemium and ditched any semblance of RPG or story while they were at it. 2011 had a bunch of gaming disappointments.
We stood up now and then to get our circulation going, and it was always the same: the wind was always blowing, there was always a semblance of moon, always in the same spot in the sky, and in front of the moon a fantastic cavalcade of ragged clouds, always the same.
As for Livni, she eschewed every semblance of propriety during her stay in the US capital.
When western pressure forced Mr Mobutu to institute a semblance of multi-party democracy in 1991, he excelled himself.
The New York Stock Exchange debunked rumors that its trading floor had flooded, but the exchange and its peers were preparing for the need to go all-electronic in an effort to have at least some semblance of a trading session at some point this week.
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As a career politician, Herrera has never participated in the business community and must now create a semblance of economic credibility.
Most large chipmakers in Japan and Korea have trimmed output in recent weeks to reduce inventories and bring a semblance of calm to the market.
Both Europe and the United States prefer not to look too closely at the army's political role and the army seems aware that this tolerance depends on the semblance of a democratic process being kept in place.
Thanks to Supreme Court cases such as Citizens United in 2010, which trampled over the last remaining semblance of campaign finance laws, our government looks a lot more like a plutocracy: a government where the wealthy rule.
If you sit idly by as the participants in your 401k plan consistently fail to achieve any semblance of retirement security, you will be challenged, regardless of how many highly compensated advisers you have consulted in connection with your process.
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Symbolism and some semblance of order are seen as important in a country that has no tradition of democratic government and whose emergence from decades of war and unrest has been upset in recent weeks by a significant resurgence of violence.
At a time when investors are looking for some semblance of accountability on Wall Street and in corporate America, it is remarkable that nobody no bankers, no one at Nasdaq, no one at Facebook has been fired for botching the offering.
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Those effects, in turn, could allow many desperate companies to return to a semblance of solvency, and so halt the inexorable rise of bad debts swamping the region's banks.
If the U.N. wants a semblance of normal political and social life to be restored in Afghanistan and international aid to return, it should recognize that supporting President Rabbani is the least unattractive among the options available.
So Russian folk-wisdom advises, and so Boris Yeltsin has been doing in the days since he rose from his sick bed to resume a semblance of work.
In fact, in Port Said, where soldiers are now even directing the traffic, some semblance of order is returning.
The magazine industry has come under fire in recent years for using too-thin models and for photoshopping them beyond all semblance of reality.
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