These hopes have proven illusory.

That hope soon proved illusory.

But trying to obtain stability from rigidity is illusory.

Yet if we look closer this gap becomes illusory.

Unfortunately, on inspection these benefits turn out to be illusory.

The task now is not to seek an illusory endgame.

Nevertheless, China s leverage over North Korea is in part illusory.

Nevertheless, peaceful life is even more illusory now than before.

But stability based on authority alone is illusory and ultimately impossible to sustain.

With regime supporters physical survival seemingly at stake, the expectation of a quick collapse was illusory.

What happens when our writing causes us to splinter ties with that illusory world of affection?

Until Europe rejects austerity in favor of a growth oriented approach, all signs of recovery will prove illusory.

While the military threat in the West looks as illusory as it is, in Central Asia that threat is concrete.

In the space of just 30 years, Berlusconi's TV stations managed to impose this illusory portrait of success on Italian society.

But, while the US suffered costs to its reputation around the world, the supposed advantages from this for America s opponents proved illusory.

But by that time, even the civilian chancellor had resolved on extravagant war aims that made hopes for a negotiated peace illusory.

The idea that tax cuts would lead to productivity gains and would pay for themselves (and fix the budget) has proved entirely illusory.

The idea of financial singularity may seem inspiring but it is no less illusory than the rational Utopia that inspired generations of central planners.

There may have been more savings opportunities for households and more diverse funding sources for firms, but the added value of asset management activity was illusory.

And also, when things go wrong, we try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.

But making it difficult for firms to lay off workers provides only an illusory benefit for workers, for it compromises companies ability to compete, and weakens their incentive to create jobs.

Most young male faculty members have an obsessive need to work 20 hours a day, seven days a week to make sure that a (sometimes illusory) competitor is beaten to the punch.

Most young male faculty members have an obsessive need to work 20 hours a day, seven days a week to make sure that a (sometimes illusory) competitor is beaten to the punch.

Power may be increasingly illusory in a globalized world, but it is an illusion that is shared by others, and the longer one inhabits it, the more one s circle consists of others who share the belief.

Since the late 1970 s, and especially during the 1980 s and 1990 s, Berlusconi's three private TV channels have portrayed a false and illusory model of quick success, as seen in American soap operas such as Dallas.

Since the late 1970 s, and especially during the 1980 s and 1990 s, Berlusconi's three private TV channels have portrayed a false and illusory model of quick success, as seen in American soap operas such as Dallas.

Leaders in some Muslim states contrast democratic systems with their more orderly arrangements and point with satisfaction to the seeming stability that alternatives to democracy provide. But stability based on authority alone is illusory and ultimately impossible to sustain.

As we confront the warnings of Chemobyl and Yalta, it is time to seek that which transcends the horizon of mere rational or scientific thought and the limits of the illusory pretensions of Chernobyl's social engineers and Yalta's geopolitical strategists.

Due to this, any significant fall in the cost of nuclear energy would bring about a big rise of cost of electricity, which would render illusory the fine declarations on re industrialisation of our country and the protection of purchasing power.

He argues that much of the apparent growth in value added has in fact been illusory, based on increased leverage, excess trading, and banks writing deep out of the money options for example, credit default swaps (a 60 trillion market in 2007). What all these strategies had in common, writes Haldane, was that they involved banks assuming risk in the hunt for yield risk that was often disguised because it was parked in the tail of the return distribution.