Under the auspice of Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping, work teams-effectively ' ideological-guidance ' squads of cadres-were sent to the city's schools and People's Daily to restore some semblance of order.

Through a series of other lynchings and other forms of intimidation, the vigilantes reduced the " unruly element " and established a semblance of law and order.

Mieroslawski reduced the insurgents to some semblance of order.

Not until the rule of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu ( as third shogun, 1368 – 94, and chancellor, 1394 – 1408 ) did a semblance of order emerge.

He appeared as a federal judge in the 1999 HBO production, The Jack Bull, bringing some semblance of order and justice to the story.

Only a small number of cities that still had feudal lords in power maintained any semblance of order.

Only a small number of cities that still had feudal lords in power maintained any semblance of order.

By October 10, the security forces had restored a semblance of order ; unofficial estimates were that more than 500 people were killed and more than 3, 500 arrested.

Taken by surprise, Caesar had to rapidly give orders to sound the alarm both by raising the battle-standard and by trumpet, get his men away from construction work, recall the wood-cutting parties and try to get his legions into some semblance of order.

The Big Man is responsible for commanding his fellow Feegles and trying to maintain some semblance of order, but in truth the kelda decides what will be done and the Big Man works out the fine ( for a Feegle's plans ) details — although no Big Man shown so far would go on a serious expedition and not bring along the clan gonnagle, ( who tend to be much brighter than the other male Feegles and have a fund of lore, stories, and ideas they can draw upon.

He managed to keep a semblance of constitutional order.

The Iron Coalition, remnants of the UN space force that struggle to maintain a semblance of order among the stars ; their strategy is one of brute force, having the strongest ships overall and the sturdiest bases.

As a result, all semblance of order and organization were lost.

Following over a century of overuse and neglect, the local colonial government attempted to give a semblance of order to the plaza by having a colonnade built across it from north to south.

The planet, once terrified by the elegant but cruel Nobles ( vampires ), ancient demons, mutants and their technological creations, is now slowly returning to a semblance of order and human control — thanks in part to the decadence that brought about the downfall of the vampire race, to the continued stubbornness of frontier dwellers and, to the rise of a caste of independent hunters-for-hire who eliminate supernatural threats.

Gen. Lieb, after establishing a semblance of order at the banks throughout the afternoon, crossed the Gniloy Tikich swimming alongside his horse.

The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it ; and a State which postpones the interests of their mental expansion and elevation to a little more of administrative skill, or of that semblance of it which practice gives, in the details of business ; a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes — will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished ; and that the perfection of machinery to which it has sacrificed everything will in the end avail it nothing, for want of the vital power which, in order that the machine might work more smoothly, it has preferred to banish.

Forrestal told Roosevelt that white units of munitions loaders were to be added to the rotation in order " to avoid any semblance of discrimination against negroes ".

This elections were greeted with general pleasure, but did not change the political support for the government, so Errázuriz Echaurren had to continue trying to achieve a balance in order to maintain a semblance of political stability.

Hall felt that it was the most appropriate solution in order for blacks to gain some semblance of equality.

Stranded in space, with humanity's governments forsaking them, and within the ship anger, agitation and fear setting in, Kouji tries his best to maintain a semblance of order and peace in a time of crisis.

Naturally, the final game quickly loses all semblance of order as players are incapacitated or killed in short order.

In the 1750s and 1760s, before Bernard's intervention, there was generally an amicable agreement that the Duke should nominate one MP and the Corporation ( representing the interests of the town ) the other ; but it seems that on occasion the Duke had to be flexible to retain the semblance of local deference towards him, and that his " nominee " had in reality been imposed upon him.

Characteristically, the well-intended but autocratic Emperor abruptly imposed his reforms without even a semblance of consultation with the population, including the influential urban intelligentsia and other segments of the ruling classes that were highly receptive to such innovations.

Stereophonic sound provided a partial solution to the problem of creating some semblance of the illusion of live orchestral performers by creating a phantom middle channel when the listener sits exactly in the middle of the two front loudspeakers.

Suspension of disbelief or willing suspension of disbelief is a term coined in 1817 by the poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who suggested that if a writer could infuse a " human interest and a semblance of truth " into a fantastic tale, the reader would suspend judgment concerning the implausibility of the narrative.

As with Madama Butterfly, Puccini strove for a semblance of Asian authenticity ( at least to Western ears ) by using music from the region in question.

Set in a post-apocalyptic Seattle, the show chronicles the life of Max Guevara ( X5-452 ), a genetically enhanced super-soldier, portrayed by Jessica Alba as an adult and Geneva Locke as a child, who, after escaping from a covert government biotech / military facility as a child, tries to lead some semblance of a normal life and constantly tries to elude capture by government agents, while searching for her genetically-enhanced brothers and sisters scattered in the aftermath of their escape.

This story concerns a 20th century United States Navy cadet who rises in the ranks while avoiding any semblance of real work by applying himself wholeheartedly to the principle of " constructive laziness ".

A hollow semblance of friendship was maintained between Constantine and Irene, whose title of empress was confirmed in 792 ; but the rival factions remained, and Irene, by skillful intrigues with the bishops and courtiers, organized a powerful conspiracy on her own behalf.

Among the gods he was known by his true name, Icelus ( Ikelos " semblance ").

Cargo cult science refers to practices that have the semblance of being scientific, but do not in fact follow the scientific method The term was first used by the physicist Richard Feynman during his commencement address at the California Institute of Technology, United States, in 1974.

Most of England believed that Parliament had done enough to curb the power of King Charles I, but the radicals in Parliament ( the extremist Puritans ) and the radicals around the country ( again, extremist Puritans ) wanted to reform the Church of England by getting rid of the bishops ( and all other things with the semblance of Catholicism ) and by establishing the Puritans ' method of worship as the standard.

As observed by Daniel Sneider, associate director for research at the Stanford University Asia-Pacific Research Center, this flirtation with capitalism was " fairly limited, but — especially compared to the past — there are now remarkable markets that create the semblance of a free market system.

But the contradiction here is one we cannot eliminate by the method of relations, because it does not involve anything real ; and in fact as a necessary outcome of an intelligible form, the fiction of continuity is valid for the objective semblance.

Several stories by Robert E. Howard, such as the novella Skull-Face and the short story " Scarlet Tears ", feature undying sorcerers who retain a semblance of life through mystical means, their bodies reduced to shriveled husks with which they manage to maintain inhuman mobility and active thought.

Over lunch on 17 October Lloyd George wanted Wilson ’ s paper rewritten to remove “ all semblance of dictation ” by the new inter-Allied body.

Lord Robert claimed this honour for himself and both charged off to destruction, followed by their disorganised schiltrons, all semblance of generalship gone.

The Hierarchy vigorously prosecutes Puppetry, both due to the Code of Charon and out of compassion for the mortals who are abused by Puppeteers ; still, the ability to " skinride " and reclaim some semblance of life and feeling is too much for many ghosts to pass up.

The Hungarian left-wing writer Béla Illés claimed that the meeting was little more than a farce, with various " notables " fetched from their homes by police, formed into a " National Assembly " without any semblance of a democratic process, and effectively ordered to endorse incorporation into Czechoslovakia.

: The judgement of the Pope was confirmed by a miracle: and, as a decisive proof that four nails were used and that the right side was pierced, Lucas of Tuy brings forward the remarkable case of St. Francis Assissi, upon whose body were preternaturally impressed the five wounds of our Savior, in such a manner, that the semblance of the heads of four nails appeared in the inside of the two hands and on the outside of the two feet, while there was so real a wound on the right side that it often emitted blood.

All parties acknowledged five wounds: but the semblance of four rusty nail-heads on the hands and feet of Francis were, of course, proof positive, that four of the wounds were inflicted by four nails and not by three.