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Fanciful in sentence

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Perhaps the idea that any of these resolutions will actually be made is fanciful.
To them the world was made in six days; evolution is a fanciful tale.
Second, it is fanciful to believe that the private sector would want to get involved in providing funding to a huge financial firm under court supervision, particularly during a systemic crisis.
And even if there were a long-term plan that would pass muster with British parliamentarians, it is fanciful to believe that it would also be acceptable to parliamentarians and voters on the other side of the channel.
But after more than 150 protests in Tibet against Chinese rule over the past 12 months, concerns about the area seem anything but fanciful.
And the idea that the US could easily source the same inputs from other countries is fanciful.
At every crossroads throughout the years leading to Israel’s creation, the movement’s leaders made the pragmatic, rather than the fanciful, choice.
In these circumstances, immunity from external shocks – or “decoupling,” as it is often called – seems fanciful.
From the view of New Zealand or Singapore, it is fanciful to think that concluding new free-trade agreements with large emerging markets such as China and India will come easily for the UK.
Vaccinating Against an HIV ReboundBRIGHTON – When I began my career as an HIV activist in Botswana two decades ago, the thought of a vaccine seemed fanciful.
In principle, and over time, a more representative national government could come about, although talk of holding elections in 18 months is fanciful under any scenario.
Like a drug, populism has attracted Brazilians with fanciful promises of higher living standards and enhanced well-being.
Convincing great powers to eliminate their nuclear arsenals might seem as politically fanciful as pushing gun-control legislation through the US Congress, but on that issue, too, Obama has made clear that he is willing to try.
It is such excessive fluctuations, not deviations from some fanciful “true” value – whether of assets or of the unemployment rate – that Keynes believed policymakers should seek to mitigate.
Moreover, the idea that China’s leaders will continue to avoid serious policy errors indefinitely, and that their capacity as crisis managers will never be tested is, quite simply, fanciful.
The economic agenda proposed by Italy’s populist parties is fanciful and unconvincing.
First, the notion that there is a smooth transition path for the debt/GDP ratio from 200% to 124% is fanciful.
Even if Sanders’s fanciful economic projections were realized, and the cost-cutting measures worked out, the program would be too expensive to cover at the current tax rate.
The question is not fanciful.
A UBI for the United States is as fanciful as President Donald Trump’s border wall: it would be prohibitively expensive; and it would not solve the problems that it is meant to address.
Trump’s fanciful, nostalgic vision of making America “great again” relies on precisely this sort of epistemic collapse.
The notion that North Korea will agree to give up its weapons and “denuclearize” is fanciful.
It is fanciful to think we can find alternative markets on that scale any time soon, or perhaps ever.
But the bill for the fanciful promises made by Europe’s so-called illiberal democrats is now coming due.
The notion of a coalition government, with power shared by the current government and the Taliban, is optimistic at best, fanciful at worst.
After several turnings they passed through a gate, and Dolly saw on the high ground before her a large, red, nearly completed building of a fanciful shape.
"This fanciful fellow claims the sea was given its name after the crossing of the Israelites, when the Pharaoh perished in those waves that came together again at Moses' command:To mark that miraculous sequel, the sea turned a red without equal.
As for mollusks, they consisted of exhibits I had already observed: turret snails, olive shells of the "tent olive" species with neatly intersecting lines and russet spots standing out sharply against a flesh-colored background, fanciful spider conchs that looked like petrified scorpions, transparent glass snails, argonauts, some highly edible cuttlefish, and certain species of squid that the naturalists of antiquity classified with the flying fish, which are used chiefly as bait for catching cod.
He had never seen as much as fifty dollars in one mass before, and he was like all boys of his age and station in life, in that he imagined that all references to "hundreds" and "thousands" were mere fanciful forms of speech, and that no such sums really existed in the world.
Besides, no one will trouble himself to verify whether you have followed them or whether you have not, being no way concerned in it; especially as, if I mistake not, this book of yours has no need of any one of those things you say it wants, for it is, from beginning to end, an attack upon the books of chivalry, of which Aristotle never dreamt, nor St. Basil said a word, nor Cicero had any knowledge; nor do the niceties of truth nor the observations of astrology come within the range of its fanciful vagaries; nor have geometrical measurements or refutations of the arguments used in rhetoric anything to do with it; nor does it mean to preach to anybody, mixing up things human and divine, a sort of motley in which no Christian understanding should dress itself.
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