Or is it driven by ideology and wishful thinking?

Was this wishful thinking or self fulfilling prophecy?

Wishful thinking could never produce working iPhones, photographs of Pluto, or atomic bombs.

That may be wishful thinking.

That may still prove to be wishful thinking.

This approach presupposes that bank assets and exposures can be accurately measured. In fact, the financial statements of mega banks are impenetrable works of fiction or wishful thinking.

In fact, the financial statements of mega banks are impenetrable works of fiction or wishful thinking.

But even that may be wishful thinking.

Wishful thinking transformed economic gains into visions of easy wealth.

Even Marx knew that the iron laws of economics could not be overcome by wishful thinking.

The official results do not reflect the true will of the people of Zimbabwe and are illegitimate in the eyes of the people.

But Europe indeed, civilization won t be kept safe by wishful thinking.

The real burden will have to be borne, as now, by effective international cooperation in intelligence and policing.

It is time for Europeans to end their wishful thinking of a continental order determined by the rule of law.

Some of this, no doubt, is wishful thinking on the part of economically unsophisticated people.

The real message was that the US government would contribute very little financially to the region s economic recovery.

To a large extent, the US crisis was actually made by the Fed, helped by the wishful thinking of the Bush administration. One main culprit was none other than Alan Greenspan, who left the current Fed Chairman, Ben Bernanke, with a terrible situation.

To a large extent, the US crisis was actually made by the Fed, helped by the wishful thinking of the Bush administration.

(b) The injured State is to be considered as having, by reason of its conduct, validly acquiesced in the lapse of the claim.

This business plan of yours seems almost too optimistic. All I can say is I hope it's more than just wishful thinking.

In fact, descriptions of some third arrow projects seem to be based on little more than wishful thinking, with new technology or knowhow apparently expected simply to fall into Japan s lap.

Romney had no miracle cure, either, but he attempted to tap into voters wishful thinking bias, by promising to reduce the size of the government and cut marginal tax rates.

He also implied that the countries of the Balkans should become virtual members of the European Union, even before they could possibly qualify as real members.

Will a rapid rise in the inflation rate reduce the real value of government, household, and commercial debt, leading to lower saving and more spending?

On the contrary, wishful thinking led experts to adduce discontinuation symptoms as evidence of the effectiveness of vital remedies. Later, suicides became routinely described as non accidental overdoses, and the broad spectrum term emotional lability came into vogue, despite its inability to distinguish between a drug induced suicide attempt and an outburst of tears.

All those involved know that, in the end, only the borders of June 1967 including Jerusalem and a negotiated, smaller territorial exchange can be acceptable to both sides, however painful. Everything else is evil wishful thinking for which more innocents will continue losing their lives.

But if the US does use the inflation tax as a way to reduce the real value of its public debt, the risk of a disorderly collapse of the US dollar would rise significantly.

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In such circumstances, more than wishful thinking can come into play we might have few incentives to think hard at all.

Everything else is evil wishful thinking for which more innocents will continue losing their lives.

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When Kellenberger cheers on the rise of a civil society supposedly determined to bring about greater respect for human rights and humanitarian law, he is mistaking his dreams for reality.

As psychologists have shown, people are susceptible to wishful thinking bias, wishing away possible future problems that they would rather not think about.

A person predisposed to cancer, say, may have the biological qualities that heighten the odds of developing cancer, but many variables will influence the actual expression of the disease. In its social meaning, however, a predisposition is often defined as equivalent to having the disease.

Most of the popular attention that the superstar cities theory has received merely reflects the psychology of the housing boom that we have been seeing, as well as a wishful thinking bias.

A person predisposed to cancer, say, may have the biological qualities that heighten the odds of developing cancer, but many variables will influence the actual expression of the disease.

A very awkward hour passed before he accepted reality and made a gracious concession speech.

Beyond the emotional impact of President Gul s visit to Yerevan, real improvement in Turkish Armenian relations requires opening the two countries closed border the last in Europe.

Either fear or ones life.

Enter or exit.

It's him or me.

It is either Cesar or nothing.

It is either Cesar or nothing.

The combined economic weight of the Christians Nestorians, Maronites, Catholic Greeks, and Syriacs is greater than their actual number, and the Bathist regime has always sought to accommodate these minorities.

The US neocons, with their wishful thinking, grossly underestimated the scale of the task at hand unlike the revolutionaries in Iran, who quickly moved in to reap what the US had sowed.