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So no one should be under any
illusion
about the risks inherent in any British referendum on EU membership.
Of course, no one is under the
illusion
that India or any other country will abandon its cities for a life as simple as the one Gandhi strove to live; but that doesn’t mean that India can’t look to Gandhi’s core values for inspiration.
Such employee ownership, uncritically lumped together with socialist nostrums over the years, was once widely dismissed as a nutty, ideological
illusion.
The
illusion
of “Paris on the Nile” crumbled.
Blinkered by the
illusion
of having snatched whatever influence newspapers commanded, social media’s mavens bungled their attempts to dethrone the older medium.
In both Germany and South Korea, economic strength seems to have produced an
illusion
of policy independence that is opening a chasm between the two countries and their allies – a chasm that revelations of US spying, on Merkel in particular, have deepened.
Are all the extremists searching for a new coherence, for a lost
illusion
of togetherness and a new hope of resurrection?
Without such a trial, the appearance of efficacy may be an illusion, because other factors would have led to a lower rate of infection anyway.
The Years of Living TacticallyMADRID – We have been living in an
illusion.
The hope that these countries can muddle through on their own is a dangerous
illusion.
Burma’s military rulers are cynically hoping to use Suu Kyi’s participation in the parliamentary process to bolster the
illusion
of freedom while continuing to exercise real control.
In fact, that track should remain open, but no one should be under the
illusion
that negotiations are somehow the missing piece of the puzzle.
Translation: Orderly resolution of global megabanks is an
illusion.
But does such a calculus make sense, or is it simply wishful thinking, a reassuring and comfortable
illusion
designed to make French leaders feel good, when in fact they are dealing with Russia on purely commercial grounds?
The idea that you can play a Medvedev card to balance Putin is a dangerous
illusion.
The Mass seeks to sustain the future of an illusion, in Freud’s famous phrase, while “The Magic Flute” is a triumphant demonstration of the spiritual grandeur of the modern spirit.
With many of their deepest desires being met, citizens will have the
illusion
of freedom and empowerment.
The victory of the campaign in the United Kingdom to leave the European Union should have jolted all of us from the
illusion
that we are somehow protected from the risks we see around us.
There are too many rifts and weaknesses on one side, and too powerful an
illusion
of strength on the other, for talks to yield anything of value.
Clearly, the Annan mission gave the regime some breathing space and created a temporary
illusion
of political and diplomatic progress.
Russia, the big loser of 1989, remains two decades later mired in a mix of social and economic depression and political regression and
illusion.
In reality, of course, the civil and guerrilla war under way in the rest of Iraq means that any security in the south can only be a temporary
illusion.
It sometimes seems that the critics are behaving according to the romantic
illusion
that if they can just abolish ECT, mental illness will disappear with it.
In a sense, these “ghost cities” resemble the Russian empire’s Potemkin villages, built to create an impressive
illusion
for the passing Czarina; but China’s ghost cities are real and were presumably meant to do more than flatter the country’s leaders.
An import boom creates only the
illusion
of economic strength.
But this was an illusion, and a misreading of France’s role in the Franco-German partnership.
While welcoming the anti-crisis action plan of the government at that time, the Fund held no
illusion
that it would be up to the task.
Perotti concludes that “the notion of ‘expansionary fiscal austerity’ in the short run is probably an illusion: a trade-off does seem to exist between fiscal austerity and short-run growth.”
For starters, Chinese officials should be under no
illusion
that the country will be immune to financial contagion.
Encouraged by the
illusion
of a strong reserve position, the Thai central bank took on the speculators -- and lost.
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