Defining Terrorism

This is also why the illusion has sometimes been called paradoxical.

A mirror wall in the room creates an illusion of spaciousness.

Maria lost the ability to distinguish between reality and illusion.

Verdi at least offered his peasants that illusion.

Now Russia s invasion of Georgia has shattered even the illusion of attraction.

Neoliberalism creates an illusion of well being that is really not there.

Tom stepped aside, letting Mary pass.

It's a static image. How many people see this illusion? It's completely static.

He was saying too much, but the garden's neglect gave the illusion of safety.

Professional trolls also provide an illusion of a society wholly united behind a particular idea.

He stepped forward so as to screen her, giving her time to recover.

Sally earns her living by giving piano lessons.

Tom kept talking and didn't let Mary get a word in edgewise.

It offers little flexibility and year after year an interest cost is paid for what is the illusion of independence.

Alhazen (Ibn al Haytham) related the illusion to the flattened appearance of the dome of the sky.

And then I'm going to finish up with another example of this with audio auditory illusions.

It also reinforces the principle of subsidiarity by giving a stronger say to national parliaments.

It's like being punched in the gut repeatedly, with no time to breathe.

The tone of the American response has been firm, giving appropriate reassurance to its allies and making clear that gamesmanship will not be tolerated, but not raising the temperature further.

This is an actual group of people that sit around naming planetary objects.

That means they can make more loans, giving borrowers more funds to spend.

The Indian media are doing their part to strengthen the illusion of progress, latching onto the phrase closest partners in their acclaim for the agreement.

Konrad Adenauers and Willi Brandts foreign policy achievements created the illusion of the German Chancellors power.

Many theories have since been offered to explain the illusion, but there is still little agreement among researchers.

And he said, David, you're a magician, create the illusion of not breathing, it will be much easier.

The resulting hesitancy of those in charge gave rise to procedures both international and national that facilitated fantasies of vindication and return.

The Russian authorities try to create an illusion that democrats in the country are marginal and unable to play any significant role in politics.

True, he has systematically concentrated power in his own hands and has undermined governmental checks and balances.

But while harassing the opposition, he has not overturned the minimal principles of democracy.

The Communists at first hoped to coopt some Solidarity activists, without legalizing the movement.

We use the media to highlight and get our stories told.

Most of the bots follow many others, giving them each a high follower followed count.

In short, the isolation of the export sector from the rest of China s economy, caused by the dominance of FDI, accounts for the illusion of an undervalued renminbi.

Domestically, too, the nine dotted line may cause problems for the government by presenting critics with a useful weapon.

Europe favors them by bumping them to the head of waiting lists and giving tax breaks to capital.

And strong interactions are happening millions of times each second in every atom of our bodies, holding the atomic nuclei together.

And without letting Levin finish explaining his idea, Metrov began expounding to him the peculiarity of his own teaching.

No tents were touched until 1 45 a.m., the police said, giving the protesters time to gather their belongings.

Many foreign companies, intent on cashing in, fuel the pathology of corrupt regimes by peddling in bribes and political protection.

There is no more room for amateur central banks trying to exploit what they perceive as a residual domestic money illusion.

For example, Aristotle in the third century BC and Ptolemy in the second century AD incorrectly attributed the illusion to the magnifying properties of the atmosphere.

It allows for fine tuning and self selection of migration flows, yielding far better results than even the most well meaning bureaucrats could ever achieve.

That is why the new Fed chair, Janet Yellen, forcefully opposed such legislation in recent congressional testimony.

Migrants are also net contributors to social systems, averaging 1 of the total budgets of European countries.