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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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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Hachim Amla and Ashwell Prince offered a semblance of stability with a 22-run stand before Harbhajan trapped Amla leg before in his second over.
But Goodwin clawed her way back toward a semblance of a respectable life and had a job waiting for her upon her release in April, thanks to a company called Televerde, which operates four call centers at Perryville.
These sites tear down the traditional barriers between those in power -- be they celebrities or politicians -- and their fanbase or supporters, providing the semblance -- if not the reality -- of personal involvement and a forum for discussion.
Owner Mike Ashley must now try to persuade Shearer to stay on and provide some semblance of stability to this most dysfunctional of clubs as they attempt to rebuild and reclaim their place in English football's elite.
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