Was this wishful thinking or self fulfilling prophecy?

Wishful thinking transformed economic gains into visions of easy wealth.

That may be wishful thinking.

That may still prove to be wishful thinking.

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

But even that may be wishful thinking.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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 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.

Or is it driven by ideology and wishful thinking?

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.

Can they deliver?

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

He knows other and easier ways of getting what he desires.

Until the dust settles on the new Middle East, the old roadmaps seem dated, and conventional wisdom holds that progress toward a peace agreement in the face of regional upheaval is wishful thinking.

Chronic stagnation is too high a price to pay for adopting the euro.

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

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Then former President Vicente Fox ordered a crackdown.

This system rewards managers for taking risks, even when the risk is excessive.

The FSLN's partisan voters have achieved what they wanted a party that governs in times of peace.

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.

Finally, policymakers are running out of tools.

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.

Some governments practice an even more direct method of suborning favorable coverage.

Good decisions require

Taking the lectures seriously even adopting tight budget frameworks can be counterproductive.

By whispering Ericsson into Reinfeldt s ear, it seems, Persson achieved the desired result.

The gardener doesn't conquer his or her plants, but studies them to produce the garden that is desired.

We muddled reform on our own.

Hold down the Tab key to open the weapon wheel, then move your mouse in the direction of the weapon you want.

Government institutions are market friendly and the population is well educated, disciplined, and flexible in its learning. Rewards for risk taking and initiative are immediate and highly motivating.

But that decision, and its moral costs, remains in the hands of the Palestinians alone.