That may be wishful thinking.

That may still prove to be wishful thinking.

But even that may be wishful thinking.

Or is it driven by ideology and wishful thinking?

Was this wishful thinking or self fulfilling prophecy?

Wishful thinking transformed economic gains into visions of easy wealth.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The often invoked investment gap is mostly a result of wishful thinking, and the remaining barriers to investment have little to do with a lack of financing.

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

The idea that the Chinese regime would quickly reform the country into an open, moderate, and benevolent giant was either a fraud, a gigantic misperception, or wishful thinking.

Such wishful thinking is predicated on the notion that conflict between Russia and the West would once again come to define the entire international system, thereby returning Russia to its former superpower status.

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Of course, in societies that are basically in good shape, both psychologically and materially, such moral fables such wishful thinking, really rarely do much harm and can often do considerable good. Think of the current multiculturalist fables that we in the West have concocted for ourselves in order to cope with the dilemmas and challenges of mass immigration from the non European world.

Of course, in societies that are basically in good shape, both psychologically and materially, such moral fables such wishful thinking, really rarely do much harm and can often do considerable good.

In the United States, those who argue for another stimulus package observe that it was always wishful thinking to believe that a 787 billion package could offset a 3 trillion fall in private spending.

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.

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?

To believe that such a vision can work for Russia, Ukraine, and Europe is not wishful thinking, but rests on the successful experience of France and Germany in promoting amity.

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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But all the talk of wondrous returns could spur what psychologists call wishful thinking bias, leading people to believe that their personal accounts will be so valuable in the future that outside saving is unnecessary.

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.

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.