These are false and forced frameworks, providing illusory freedom, as time provides illusory leniency when we, in anguish, let it pass monotonously.
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The rise is illusory — and the fall is coming.
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" But, Geragos responded, arguing that it was an "illusory promise.
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These surreal, at times illusory images both shock and amuse.
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As with all Trumpian pronouncements, it may yet prove illusory.
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The distinction, however illusory, between "work" and "wellness" has collapsed.
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Any hopes of change in behavior are illusory at best.
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Previous notions of the stuff were shown to be illusory.
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The simple takeaway here is that consensus is often illusory.
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Promises of economic benefits are as illusory as lost civilizations.
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Their authenticity — the essence of their appeal — is often illusory.
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Always, the hope of an alternative, happier life proves illusory.
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It's simply paying for its tax cut with illusory savings.
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Yet even under the guns of the peacekeepers, security is illusory.
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We need to realize that the mold is kind of illusory.
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The idea that Britain had much influence over them is illusory.
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That connectedness is illusory; that we're all more alone than ever.
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But here, too, the impression of ideological commitment is mostly illusory.
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But the seduction is every bit as illusory as Charles Maitland's.
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I do think HBO's strength is at least a little illusory.
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But the vision of a flower-bedecked global village proved illusory.
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But planning, we learned, was illusory, and not just for Julie.
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" Halladay worries about a psychological theory called the "illusory truth effect.
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A common affliction demonstrates that our feeling of individualism is illusory.
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A common affliction demonstrates that our feeling of individualism is illusory.
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" Deny: "The money might not be tainted, or it might prove illusory.
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Work increasingly feels disconnected from meaning and money is ever more illusory.
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But what Summers is suggesting is that this uptick may be illusory.
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We cannot settle for illusory solutions such as not enforcing bad laws.
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But as with Ho in Vietnam, the noble ideals proved largely illusory.
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The synthesizers, especially, give "A Deeper Understanding" a dreamy, almost illusory quality.
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The low risk and cost of these zones may be illusory, however.
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Secondly, how do you address leaders who have the 'illusory superiority' bias?
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Why would it matter ultimately whether our world was real or illusory?
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" Its illusory benefits, furthermore, "spring from trials with higher risk of bias.
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Justice felt like a real, tangible thing rather than a vague, illusory ideal.
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Historically, psychologists have studied the illusory truth effect with topics of trivial importance.
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And as such, my sense of self via memory becomes illusory and untrustworthy.
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The company was supposed to create 22005,235 jobs — positions that have proved illusory.
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In each case, these tax "increases" are both illusory and very short-term.
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"Illusory tenancy cases typically involve hard-fought and expensive litigation," Mr. Frazer said.
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Some of us have an entirely illusory fresh start to squander over here.
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That's why it would be illusory to believe we could conclude negotiations by Christmas.
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But such a dream was probably illusory: north-south racial animus was too entrenched.
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And many of his supposed weaknesses are as illusory as Mr Johnson's supposed strengths.
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At this point, resemblances that they thought were genetic turn out to be illusory.
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Encryption remains a half-measure, giving only a temporary and illusory sense of security.
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The innovator hype may not translate into immediate sales, but it's not illusory either.
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The problem with sitting in a hot shower is the pain relief is illusory.
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Hopes of easy trade deals with the rest of the world also look illusory.
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But the cost savings that outsourced call centers appear to offer often prove illusory.
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"Species boundaries are, if not illusory, certainly vague and sometimes porous," he tells us.
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This is another one of those illusory achievements that's mostly due to good timing.
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Vertigo is an illusory sensation of motion that is often accompanied by intense nausea.
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Our lives, he suggests, consist of fragments of stories, of shifting and illusory perspectives.
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The clash between the Nationalist International and the establishment was both real and illusory.
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If they are simply cancelled, as some conservatives advocate, the savings will be illusory.
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The idea that ignoring a genocide will bring political or strategic benefits usually proves illusory.
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But the tension in Algeria is another sign that the region's autocratic stability is illusory.
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But recent research shows the illusory truth effect is indeed at play with fake news.
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Publicly, at least, Swift seems to have left her protective (and illusory) Garden of Eden.
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We have always known that the protection we feel in a queer club is illusory.
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As an artform, the cartoon, from Fantasia through to Family Guy, revels in the illusory.
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He stayed too long when some were questioning whether the rise was illusory and unsustainable.
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He called on nations to "resist being caught up in the illusory power of vengeance".
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The frustrating truth about the illusory truth effect is that it happens to us unthinkingly.
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All for a largely illusory wall that, even if built, won't detain or mistreat anyone.
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Home game marginMy brand has registered growth of late, but it's illusory … a sugar high.
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Republicans often justify strict voter laws by pointing to the illusory threat of voter fraud.
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At the same time, an obvious artifice created tension between the illusory and the real.
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But time often proves aesthetic permanence, as well as moral high ground, to be illusory.
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Can they wait for neuroscience developments that may take decades to appear, or prove illusory?
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That freedom was largely illusory, as it still kept peasants legally bound to large estates.
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The 'six-pointer' is an illusory feast, thrown between two famished, wild-eyed football teams.
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The tension between the two motifs produces a dizziness common to the artist's illusory oeuvre.
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So it's little wonder this illusory yardstick has carried over into discussions of quantum computing.
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Also, what appears to be consensus at the start of a debate is often illusory.
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The theories are also dangerous because of a psychological phenomenon called the illusory truth effect.
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All of the benefits of driving big cars, as I have previously argued, are illusory.
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Maybe the good life is not about trying to achieve some sort of illusory balance.
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Two years later, he published his second novel, "The Magician," which portrays justice as illusory.
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But a humid electricity — some illusory, conductive force — certainly hangs throughout most of the songs.
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But even there the seeming richness is somewhat illusory, a shadow of what once existed.
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But even more importantly, the only way that you could perceive the shifted illusory flash would be if the information that comes later in time—the final beep-flash combination—is being used to reconstruct the most likely location of the illusory flash as well.
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When the real-time illusory feedback matched the subjects' intention, it improved their control within minutes.
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The illustrative aesthetic of the rotoscoping turning NYC into an unreal, illusory place of fleeting moments.
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I wanted them to emphasize an optical vibration — a strange combination of physical and illusory experience.
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Something illusory, that which we can never quite grasp, is commonly referred to as a chimera.
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Or maybe it was a reminder from the universe that physical beauty is illusory and fleeting.
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Their ghostly presence is made more illusory by the sweeping brush and broadleaves throughout the scene.
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The physical world is "largely illusory," an editorial in The New York Times announced on Nov.
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"Unfortunately, our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often illusory," Matthieu tells me.
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There's a famous set of experiments from the 1960s that suggests that free will is illusory.
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Those in less artsy careers who chase that same sort of freedom may find it illusory.
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Any fracture in the facade or unity might topple our tenuous, newly earned, mostly illusory strength.
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Jupiter clashes with deceptive Neptune, and you may be chasing rainbows, completely misled by something illusory.
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The short-term fluctuations lend themselves to horse-race political punditry and suggest an illusory precision.
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I had been there from the beginning, but was distracted by illusory information and others' preconceptions.
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Installed as illusory patterns resembling a Rorschach test, the decorations conveyed worldliness while also eliciting spiritual reflection.
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Telltale Games lets you choose whether or not to pull the trigger, but it's an illusory choice.
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The would-be "Beijing consensus", the idea that economic reform can continue without political reform, is illusory.
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Turner incrementally realises both his own complicity and that the notion of a benevolent master is illusory.
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Mildly psychedelic, it smartly equates the actual painting and the illusory fish tank as hypnotic visual objects.
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That sense of horizontal interaction, however illusory it may be, works to create that sense of community.
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The illusory truth effect has been studied for decades — the first citations date back to the 1970s.
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Pennycook and colleagues ran several versions of a classic "illusory truth" study design with around 2,000 participants.
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The United States is paying a high price for its illusory pursuit of "wins" in bilateral negotiations.
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During a panel moderated by CNBC, Putin said, "All those things are fictional, illusory and provocations, lies."
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After all, when you look more closely at the earlier waves, the impression of coherence seems illusory.
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In a tough market environment, the liquidity of ETFs "will be shown to be illusory," he said.
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But there's insight to gain about emergent sensibilities in world art, without hustling everybody toward illusory barricades.
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Too many American high school graduates are "let down by patronizing and illusory degrees," Judge Moukawsher wrote.
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So the Senate rules will require millions of Americans to pay taxes on phantom or illusory gains.
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In some cases, prosperity coincides with greatness (Reagan), but often booms are illusory (Franklin Roosevelt) or worse.
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Like all such promises, this one proves to be illusory, and their wishfulness comes at a cost.
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Serena might have power, but it's all illusory: a reflection of the real power, which sits with Fred.
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During the first few rounds, about 80% of my worries were as illusory as my college class nightmare.
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Last year, in a piece for The Atlantic, Adrienne LaFrance wrote about the illusory permanence of the internet.
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If a planet makes an illusory loop and no one sees it, is it an illusion at all?
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As we now know, that stranglehold was largely illusory, undermined by a stubborn minority in the U.S. Senate.
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Yet the trade-off between principle and realism is more illusory than the government's actions or words allow.
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The Trump administration should abandon the notion of Tehran as a playing field for illusory reformers vs. hardliners.
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Any such "victory" for the regime will be just as illusory as those claimed by the Soviet Union.
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Let's focus on the clarity of his darkness, his illusory deceptions, his insatiable avarice and his colossal conceit.
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The illusory layering of "Mystic Chart" also points to her skillful varying of the textures in her prints.
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We opened the throttle and surged forward in the dark, guided by the illusory stars in our eyes.
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Yet the security provided by such deals will be illusory if formerly communist countries do not battle corruption.
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Algerian activists say they are concerned the army-steered transition toward democracy will prove illusory as in Egypt.
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In exchange, we received a basket of illusory promises that the Iranians never had any intention of keeping.
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The pope has urged Armenia and Turkey to seek reconciliation and to shun "the illusory power of vengeance".
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"When I hear that we are going to reconstruct the temple of Bel, that seems illusory," she said.
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Obama's election was an illusory balm for a country desperate to move beyond its original sins, Glaude argues.
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According to certain schools of Buddhism, we project an illusory reality onto a more fundamental phenomenal reality called dharma.
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So it helps you maintain a stable sense of identity over time, which is probably illusory but very useful.
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Freeze advocates have answered none of these questions, because trying to do so would reveal the concept's illusory nature.
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This notion is meant to give the impression of purity, but is not only merely illusory but also misguided.
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In this initial game foray, any interactions are illusory — but in the future, that might not be the case.
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But as luxuries go, this is one of those respectable ones where the benefit isn't purely cosmetic or illusory.
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On the other hand, Trump's assessments regarding North Korea and ISIS are as illusory as his tweets are incoherent.
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Sometimes it feels more productive to apply for hundreds of jobs rather than a few, but that's often illusory.
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Patterson's remarks over the weekend suggest that the changes #MeToo have heralded in the church might be merely illusory.
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What if our most fundamental means of perceiving and classifying one another is illusory and can be swept away?
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But that 70 number is largely illusory because the parties can and almost always do agree to delay it.
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The sensation of being caught up in an illusory scenario is the Nirvana of a well-designed virtual experience.
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But the assumption that democracy can be gradually transferred to the European level has also proved to be illusory.
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If you discover that the unit is regulated, you may have what is known as an illusory tenancy defense.
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But in Quentin Beck, the man behind the illusory mask, I saw something more akin to ... Orson Welles. Seriously!
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If he takes the blue pill, he continues to live in an illusory world in a state of blissful ignorance.
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Obama no longer suggests our divisions are illusory; he no longer proposes new thinking as a salve for old battles.
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In Poland, however, Supreme Court chief Malgorzata Gersdorf said in a statement that the concessions offered by PiS were "illusory".
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It is just one logical step from Ms Ehrenreich's dystopian view to believing that control over our health is illusory.
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Last month PiS offered some concessions in the spat with the EU, but the Supreme Court called the changes "illusory".
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"It's illusory to think that minerals will save Afghanistan in any foreseeable future," said one senior Western diplomat in Kabul.
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But at least some of it is illusory; rarely do strikes shut down the country entirely — rather, they inconvenience it.
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It insists on opportunities for growth that our cherished — but often illusory — notions of maturity have closed the door on.
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The eccentric shapes of the Sistine coffers eliminated that obstacle; each snugs around a bespoke image in illusory sculptural relief.
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Devastated by her mother's sudden death, she pivots from the illusory certainty of science to the guaranteed uncertainty of art.
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What to watch: In the short term, both sides may be feel an illusory short-term relief over the breakdown.
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He was less happy at having received a visit, earlier that morning, from some sinister and illusory Big Pharma delegation.
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At the end, Bibi manages to break out of her illusory refuge, although with little sense of triumph or resolution.
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But despite the impenetrable, illusory quality of the paintings, one doesn't immediately associate them with covert operations, skullduggery, and violence.
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It is also testimony to how illusory the triumph of liberalism in 1989 has proved under the pressure of globalization.
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The dream is far from illusory, he said; he has already accomplished what many believed to be impossible, himself included.
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However, any such benefit is likely to be illusory, as our trading partners would almost certainly retaliate in any event.
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And, as you suggest above, music is my causa sui project, providing me with a (groundless, illusory) sense of purpose.
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But the idea that Moscow will bring about a settlement in a multilayered conflict as tangled as Syria may be illusory.
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" And the 24 state attorneys general called it "an abandonment of important principles of consumer protection in exchange for illusory benefits.
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Molthan said the system performs well in many situations, and instills a kind of illusory confidence in the driver over time.
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"The message of today is simple: old-time safety can be illusory," Cramer said as stocks fell on weak retail data.
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The Lannisters stand astride the country like colossi, but their power is mostly illusory — they mostly gain it from trampling everybody.
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According to a 2014 paper titled "Cats and Illusory Motion", cats react with hunting behaviors when presented with this particular illusion.
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These fears are not purely illusory: Ellison really is on the left of his own party when it comes to Israel.
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But much of Serena's power is illusory, and June knows it, especially when June is carrying the baby that Serena wants.
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As the engine took the corner from Kushla onto Exeter, Lane couldn't see much smoke, which he knew might be illusory.
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But civics classes are an illusory solution because government has no incentive to educate people about the perils of political power.
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One group, however, whose presence in politics remains illusory and whose voice continues to be drowned out is people with disabilities.
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For the entire economy, though, there is something illusory about savings, since almost all current consumption comes out of current production.
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That's all there is, ultimately, at the core of the film's power structure; politicians and celebrities together watching an illusory dance.
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The 2001 recession exposed and collapsed tech along with these non-growth stocks that had "illusory" earnings expectations attached to them.
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They don't buy into the illusory rhetoric of waiting for the law to be repealed — they're fighting for more than that.
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But such a hope is illusory if it is simply the desire to reverse existing patterns of control to our advantage.
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"It is absolutely cutting-edge in terms of the emotive illusory capacity to appear to be a living being," he said.
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Citizenship isn't even an illusory protection in "De Novo," deftly directed by Mr. Solomon for Houses on the Moon Theater Company.
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The majority of her compositions center on a single subject that's been altered using a number of different creative, illusory embellishments.
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"Bakers Steak" depicts a green-glass-shaded brass lamp and a centered quartet of illusory brass rings seeming to perforate the picture.
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Based on emissions trends and projections, such a target is illusory, since the world is on track to blow right past it.
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The report argues that the process of turning Myanmar into a democracy has proved illusory, and that the country is going backwards.
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Rand explains that the warnings did slightly decrease accuracy ratings — but not to an extent that it overcame the illusory truth effect.
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America can aid the truly hungry without creating an illusory safety net that does more to spur obesity than to improve diets.
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Alston was skeptical of an "illusory emphasis on employment," noting that a declining percentage of the working age population has a job.
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Trying to negotiate leniency on North Korea for illusory Chinese concessions on trade will result in an additional double loss for America.
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The fact that earnings began to sag and financial-company profits — the single largest segment — proved largely illusory was the critical driver.
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Illusory because like the Soviet regime before the, the Islamic Republic doesn't have credible answers to its society's structural challenges and demands.
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But the price we pay for this illusory explanation is having to confront a recurring fear whenever Friday the 13th rolls around.
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" The Perspectives paper concluded: "[I]t is quite possible that a considerable number of relationships reported in this literature are entirely illusory.
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"We believe the Draft Restatement represents an abandonment of important principles of consumer protection in exchange for illusory benefits," the AGs argued.
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Silhouetted against illusory shades of orange light, Mr. Murray's darkened form approaches Meg, herself silhouetted against a similar backdrop of pink light.
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Indeed, the weakness of this picture, from this reviewer's point of view, is the sentimentality of it — its illusory concept of life.
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Any expectation that he would put the harsh language aside to become more of a moral leader as president has proved illusory.
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In another experiment, the scientists induced illusory ownership of an invisible body, then blacked out the headset display, effectively blindfolding the subjects.
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Though some of the permanence of these carefully placed stones is illusory, they are a mecca for a variety of sea creatures.
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Although the U.S. coal industry has recently pointed to modest gains in employment and investments, the improvements are temporary, if not illusory.
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Yet that illusory quality is true of most forms of money, a shared hallucination that we tolerate as long as it works.
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Ink-on-glass landscape paintings further the illusory landscape created by the gardens and places the viewer's reflection within this constructed paradise.
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PENCE: ... while other nations like China and India absolutely do nothing or make illusory promises decades down the road to deal with it.
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Free college would force private schools to compete on price rather than continue to feed off people's desperation to climb illusory status ladders.
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The first two hours, as Mr. Madoff builds his illusory empire and at first evades detection, are largely played for comedy, even farce.
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In my view the inevitable consequence of the proposed policies will be to make the supposed control by Parliament illusory rather than real.
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Until someone can reign them all in -- and share power and oil profits with the tribes -- stability and economic growth will be illusory.
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The biggest challenge we have is trying to separate out what is real versus what's illusory because these politicians are good cultural psychologists.
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François Hollande, the previous president, regularly claimed to have spotted an imminent downturn in the jobless rate, only for it to prove illusory.
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But until patients actually have access to both drugs, genuine choice will remain illusory — and many people will continue to overdose and die.
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In a bad relationship, one person holds all the power, doling out little moments of illusory self-determination as one would dog treats.
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But two huge pieces of the shadow-banking puzzle are directly tied to banks, meaning that much of the apparent diversification is illusory.
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Ponzi schemes, such as the one Bernie Madoff operated for years, are fraudulent because they promise returns to investors that are totally illusory.
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The Republican Party often invokes the illusory menace of widespread voter fraud; now they've had an election victory overturned for election fraud themselves.
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"The current 'notice and choice' privacy regime too often has resulted in unnoticeable notices and illusory choices," an official in her office said.
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The impression of the author having control over who reads their work, illusory as it may be, brings writer and reader closer together.
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Then again, there have perhaps been enough excuses made for Eric Pleasants, who despite his fascinating story remains an illusory and enigmatic man.
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Splayed across an illusory black-and-white backdrop, animatronic limbs wiggle and wag, creating an unsettling combination of the real and the synthetic.
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We all mistake repetition for accuracy, a phenomenon called the illusory truth effect, and knowledge about the subject matter doesn't necessarily protect you.
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The videos in "Internet Landscapes: Sydney 2016" strive to make the invisible visible, to demystify the illusory boundary between digital life and IRL.
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Hopes that the Turks, who hate the Kurds and consider them an existential threat, will act with restraint will almost certainly prove illusory.
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The opening to the regime by the West was illusory, as President Hassan Rouhani will not oversee a period of "moderation" in Tehran.
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But some scientists have argued that the potential physical benefits from intense training will be illusory if people do not complete the workouts.
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And, with each one, the temptation will grow to yield fundamental values in the name of security as stifling as it is illusory.
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Lampedusa juxtaposes wide, luminous digital panoramas with black-and-white Super 8 shots, knitting together an illusory, slippery vision of time and place.
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Perhaps expectation is a way to create illusory certainty until things either go exactly as we'd hoped or we are disappointed that they didn't.
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De Vincenzo, a diaphanous organza dress shimmering behind him, looked out from a box seat towards the polychrome orchestra of a thousand illusory chairs.
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Her pieces move slowly and deceptively, producing an illusory stillness—a respite from the world where you can stop and think for a second.
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But for me personally—and I expect a number of other potential players as well—my memories are of that time are somewhat illusory.
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So it can light up a large area, but it also creates an unreal, illusory quality, not unlike a scene from a Lynch movie.
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This belief strikes against the core theme of Kudos, which is that such frameworks, particularly of the self-mythologizing variety, are illusory and misguided.
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Some things are a mirage or a projection of what you want them to be, as overly-optimistic Jupiter squares off with illusory Neptune.
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The constant pursuit of illusory material gains translates to putting on pretenses, from pretending everything is OK to how fantastic our life is going.
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My first symptoms of Alzheimer's occurred 14 years ago when I started to lose my sense of smell and began to experience illusory odors.
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The inconvenient truth is that racial progress in this country is always more complex and frequently more illusory than it appears at first glance.
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That proved illusory, and the Obama administration expanded economic aid after the Arab Spring in 2011, to levels averaging more than $40 million annually.
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If he and Kim pursue a painstaking peace process instead, in some illusory quest for a Nobel Peace Prize, we can live with that.
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Buddhist philosophy holds that the "self" is illusory and that our suffering is the result of clinging to impermanent objects, like feelings and thoughts.
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And to gain power, both Democrats and Republicans have enforced illusory binary coherence on the otherwise incoherent miasma of voters and groups in society.
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The illusory nature of it, and the weird feeling of fulfillment that comes with making something disappear right in front of an unsuspecting dupe.
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That heaps the pressure on club hierarchies from top to bottom, with owners, directors, managers and negotiators blamed for failing to secure illusory signings.
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Whether the interactions were real or illusory, every guest took part in the show as a bit player or as part of a larger trick.
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Christian Europe, a notion that Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary has turned into a kind of illusory fetish, is in fact much less Christian.
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Washed in a harsh fluorescent light, these works create a collective unease, a dizzying assortment of illusory patterns that cause the paintings to blur together.
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" - NetflixAvailable July 25 Boi (2019)"As a young Catalan chauffeur drives two Chinese businessmen around Barcelona, he finds himself falling deeper into an illusory adventure.
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To understand why — and the extent to which false stories seep into our brains — we need to understand the psychology of the illusory truth effect.
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Your boosted ambition drove you to new heights, and as Jupiter clashed with illusory Neptune three times this year, your limits may have felt unclear.
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Since Iowa splits its delegates more or less proportionately to the percentage of the votes a candidate wins, the technical Clinton win was mostly illusory.
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"Hangmen" would have been infinitely more interesting—more energetic and more true—had McDonagh's point been to show how illusory power is, and how destructive.
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Instead of the problem being men or society, this time the grievances are with the human condition and the propensity to chase an illusory ideal.
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The Trump administration is proposing an illusory "space shield" that falsely purports to be able to shoot down any and all missiles Russia might launch.
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The body—though illusory, changeable and subject to decay, as the "Bhagavad Gita" taught him—was nonetheless the holy shrine in which the spirit lived.
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The billionaire businessman, who said he is self-financing his campaign, said the wall separating super-PACs and candidates running for public office is illusory.
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That we reject these illusory ideas about irreconcilable differences between cultures and put the dignity and equal worth of all people as the highest value.
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People have become so tribal that "politicians have little choice but to supply our demand for illusory quick fixes, oversimplified sound bites, scapegoats," he said.
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The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu | Buy on Amazon Absent and illusory though Liu's parents often are, their love remains fiercely real.
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Pushing the pause button in the illusory search for an alternative liberation force more amenable to Turkey would delay any move on Raqqa for months.
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There's a slow-motion crisis brewing in Iraq — one dramatized by recent events that, over the long term, could make any victory over ISIS illusory.
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As a matter of fact, the second person might know more — not just because they're better rested, but because they haven't been misled by illusory trends.
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Folman's loony grand vision involves fleets of zeppelins, a drug that turns people into Steamboat Willie cartoon versions of themselves, and a Matrix-ish illusory reality.
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Of course, such phenomena are not always real — sometimes a real pattern emerges from the internet, sometimes illusory or misidentified patterns, the cultural equivalent of pareidolia.
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"I believe equities to be in a state of illusory stability," Francesco Filia, chief executive officer of asset management firm Fasanara Capital, told CNBC via email.
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He suggests that automation in recent decades did cause mass unemployment but that society conspired to create a bunch of illusory jobs to disguise the fact.
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The conclusion is that the purported benefits from Brexit are uncertain and may prove illusory, while the risks are much greater if voters choose to leave.
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Under Ryan's leadership, his reputed influence over the far-right caucus is illusory as evidenced by his inability to pass appropriation bills and restore regular order.
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The Senior Managers Regime (SMR) from Monday replaces a system that UK lawmakers criticized for giving illusory control over individuals with little prospect of enforcement action.
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That's 22019 cents on the dollar, not 15 cents, a considerably easier concept to grasp than the confusing system that currently provides inequitable and illusory benefits.
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For the time being, it's up to Democrats and the media to make clear to these voters that the GOP's commitment to their principles is illusory.
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The Senior Managers Regime (SMR) from Monday replaces a system that UK lawmakers criticised for giving illusory control over individuals with little prospect of enforcement action.
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President Trump is on course to exchange tangible economic benefits the United States was on the verge of realizing for others that are minimal or illusory.
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The prosecutor was contemptuous of the judge's arguments for limited surveillance, calling them "perfectly illusory, given the context," according to the documents quoted in Le Monde.
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Yet the lesson here, and in the novel's conclusion, is surely not that beauty and faith and love are illusory, or even that they are fleeting.
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Each dance's current is nonstop (the pauses in her own "Particular Reel" are somewhat illusory, caesuras rather than halts), while its sense of process is constant.
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The entire premise on which the commercial bail system is built — that when defendants skip bail, someone must either find them or pay, is somewhat illusory.
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Such illusory reliance undercuts the foundational premise for judicial deference to administrative action: that the decision resulted from an exercise of specialized expertise that courts lack.
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Mr. Trump has offered a "phenomenal" trade deal if Britain makes a hard break from the European Union, but analysts say such an outcome is illusory.
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Mark Warner (D-VA) saw that his 8.9-point poll lead was illusory — on election night, he eked out a victory by less than 1 point.
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She has also not yet learned to be mistrustful of the illusory softness of families like Elena's, leaving her vulnerable to the subtlest forms of exploitation.
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Today even skeptics live in the presence of the departed, the disembodied and the illusory — internet shadows that are no less influential for not being real.
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And we know that false claims, if they're repeated enough, become more plausible the more often they're shared, something psychologists have called the "illusory truth" effect.
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Rather than chase an illusory dominance, the United States should pursue the safety and welfare of its people while respecting the rights and dignity of all.
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"If there's an expectation that this is going to change anything on the matter of trade at the moment, I think that is illusory," Stockman said.
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An illusory tenant is a prime tenant of a regulated apartment who no longer occupies it but operates it as a business, profiting off the rent.
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If my daughter sees her reflection in a bowl of water, she knows the image is illusory; she knows she is not actually in the bowl.
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And for this median household to make mortgage payments, after a 5% down payment (charged to eight credit cards), on a median home is completely illusory.
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Any ongoing affinity for the book is a way of signalling to the world that you are still enthralled by juvenile and illusory notions of freedom.
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" Putin said all the accusations, including the conclusion by 17 US intelligence agencies that Russia worked to help Donald Trump win, are "fictional, illusory, provocations and lies.
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What we know is that through four of the season's 10 episodes, all of the women are paired off, in unions old, new, tentative or possibly illusory.
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The research here suggests that even when there are fact-checks around bullshit claims, the illusory truth effect still influences our memories to confuse fact and fiction.
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Russia, China, Cuba, Islamic theocracies, even North Korea boast about their often illusory economic and social programs as evidence of human-rights compliance and their own legitimacy.
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How illusory that promise was became apparent within a few years, as homesteaders in neighboring canyons began clamoring for a right of way along his family's beach.
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Given Penn State's storied history and lofty expectations, a coach who pretends bad years were illusory while hyping up 7-5 will eventually wear out his welcome.
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Neptune and Saturn start the drama early in the month, on June 3, when sweet Venus clashes with illusory Neptune, creating a very sensitive, even weepy, vibe.
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But other times, the overwhelming news coverage surrounding a debate performance or a political convention is exactly the sort of thing that would cause an illusory shift.
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These insurrections will not be quelled until Sahelian governments are obliged (and helped) to undertake political and economic reforms instead of depending on illusory foreign military saviors.
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He knew the illusory technique called the Shepard Tone, "whereby you feel a continuing rise in pitch," he said, though the music doesn't actually escalate that high.
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But she'd had enough hope to travel 2,700 miles from home to reach Tijuana, and I wanted her to keep her hope, even if it was illusory.
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" He pointed to Russian President Vladimir Putin's comments on Thursday in which he dismissed claims that Russia meddled in the US election as "fictional, illusory, provocations and lies.
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I still feel the nostalgic pull of the brand: the extremely basic décor, the not-bad coffee, the faintest whiff (illusory, mass-produced) of taste, culture, exclusivity, class.
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It is understood in the theater as an alternative to the practice of acting technique, or what one might call the skillful application of illusory gestures thoughtfully applied.
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Any big improvement in the public finances will usually be largely illusory; debt might drop, but selling will swap a future flow of income for up-front cash.
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And recent research shows the illusory truth effect is in play when we hear or read fake news claims repeated, regardless of how ridiculous or illogical they sound.
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"The self may not be an aloof independent 'ruler' of body and mind, but neither is it an illusory product of impersonal physical and mental forces," he writes.
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"It is illusory to imagine we will accept cherry-picking," he said of the idea that Britain could maintain EU regulations in some sectors, while diverging in others.
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And here, too, with Ian Lake giving a galvanizing performance as an unusually young and sexually magnetic Macbeth, Shakespeare illustrated how ephemeral and even illusory power can be.
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But the idea that China's businesses and investors would become detached from the Communist Party, or that they might even begin to call the shots, has proved illusory.
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It's the subtlest of the broken windows, with minimal traces of the artist's illusory devices, but all the more powerful for its simple evocations of metaphor and possibility.
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As with the fake villages erected during Catherine II's visit to Crimea in 1787 by the Russian empress's lover Grigory Potemkin, there's an illusory feel to it all.
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McMahon, clinging to his faith in the dubious doctrines of counterinsurgency, chases after an illusory victory that his allies, colleagues and bosses don't really believe in any more.
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Corporate and individual tax changes, a $22007 trillion infrastructure investment and other items on the Trump agenda that have goosed the markets may now prove illusory, they added.
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Some find it a haven from the stresses of home; they may feel more in control there or simply enjoy the feeling that they're being useful, however illusory.
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Instead of returning to a model of permanently memorializing an illusory and grandiloquent past, why not consider commissioning temporary commemorative works rooted in local community histories and struggles?
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But the first areas to come in aren't necessarily representative — in general, for example, large urban areas will count votes more slowly, which could present an illusory Republican lead.
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Might not the jagged drips noticeable in some of the works anticipate the unraveling of the support, a reminder that permanence is illusory, even for a dictator for life?
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Rourke called the updated policy "illusory" because the ban still prohibits products from coming into Massachusetts, so he says sellers won't be able to maintain inventory or fill orders.
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The idea that "a few weeks of military instruction would be enough to develop among 18- to 21-year-olds a sense of national belonging", it concluded, "is illusory".
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The committee argues that the process of turning the country into a democracy has proved to be largely illusory, and that in some respects the country is going backwards.
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But while Magritte's illusions were often imagined, sometimes almost hallucinogenic, Ms Celmins draws from the illusory power of photographs, which depict the real world while framing and distorting it.
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Van Eyck appears again with his 1433–5 "Annunciation" diptych, its grayscale figures reflected within painted black marble in illusory niches in a trompe l'oeil technical tour de force.
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They see this third illusory flash at the same time as the second beep, and see it located in the center of the screen, between the two real flashes.
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At best, Mr. Dagan said at Harvard, an Israeli bombing run would provide an illusory solution, temporarily flattening those facilities, only to have them return, this time deep underground.
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About a minute in, Mr. Scott starts a steadily rolling beat on the snare, but the uptick in tempo and structure is illusory; resolution escapes out a side door.
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It is not clear what concrete benefits they envision this split yielding, but the price the administration seems poised to pay for this illusory objective is way too high.
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Mercury, Mars, and the sun meet, and people's thoughts and motivations are clear, but as sweet Venus faces off with illusory Neptune, you may not be making yourself clear.
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It's only video projected onto the floor, a simple enough technique, but I was sorely tempted to take off my shoes and wiggle my toes in the illusory foam.
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I don't even like being waited on by people I'd rather have a beer with; I'm uncomfortable holding the meager (and mostly illusory) power of grades over my students.
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European elites were so afraid of nationalism that they fell for the illusory dream of convergence — the dream that nations could effortlessly merge into a cosmopolitan Pan-European community.
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"It is illusory to believe a president who is rejected by the people could change the constitution," said Andre Michel, a politician with the opposition Democratic and Popular Sector.
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Dr. Kitazaki replied that the exact difference between out-of-body experiences and illusory body ownership is an open question, but agreed that future research should include such measurements.
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Notable instances included 28503, when the sharp rebound from the recession proved illusory and a slowing economy prompted the second round of quantitative easing, what became known as QE22019.
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Royal tradition and colonial race science once afforded the Tutsi minority a superior place in Rwanda's social hierarchy, but Mukasonga grew up in the aftermath of this illusory privilege.
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It is an illusory perspective, he knows: In the San Bernardino of his poetry, a woman dies on a park bench, her death recorded by the cameras mounted on streetlights.
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With the addition of the illusory thickness of a windowsill protruding into the photographs, the frames surrounding "Letters" (257) and "Letters II" (573-257) assume the mass of a wall.
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Strobing, rotating paintings accentuate the delicate tension underlying animation's illusory movement, picking up some of the themes which dictated Loops, the 1976 performance series she co-created with John Cage.
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" The American Medical Association, in a letter opposing the revised bill, warned that allowing insurers to charge much higher rates to sick people would make pre-existing condition protections "illusory.
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Both the House and Senate plans rely on rosy estimates of economic growth and illusory spending cuts to promise to wrestle the federal budget back into surplus within a decade.
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They were both outsiders, menaced and so, therefore, perceived as menacing despite their commercial and critical success; they knew power could be positive and effective but was ultimately illusory, fake.
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George Palumbo, an economics professor at Canisius College in Buffalo, said that the gleaming new buildings at the medical campus "take nice pictures," but said the development was also illusory.
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Principally, there is one main source of dissatisfaction: the constant pursuit of the illusory things we think we want produces strain to keep up, low self-worth and general unhappiness.
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Jones even acknowledged this "illusory truth effect" to a certain degree in his deposition released this week: He blames the media for making it harder to discern falsehoods from reality.
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And his response to effacement is hyperbole and swagger: He's like one of those animals that puffs itself up when predators come around, using illusory might to conceal intrinsic weakness.
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But this fightback will not take the form of reheated slogans and nostalgia for the "end of history," as illusory as anything conjured up by flag-waving, little-Britain Brexiteers.
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While not technically a hologram, the sphere seems as though it could produce a similar illusory effect as Crystal's birds, although not to the same audience and stage-circling scope.
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The fame of this illusory firefall has since eclipsed that of the old one, but I can't stop thinking of the original firefall — the one made out of real fire.
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Nationalism, self-pitying and aggressive, seeks to change the present in the name of an illusory past in order to create a future vague in all respects except its glory.
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But America's current advantages could erode if Washington continued to deplete its shrinking resources by meddling in illusory pursuits around the world while neglecting the social and economic challenges at home.
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"The results suggest that feelings of premonition during déjà vu occur and can be illusory," writes the study's first author, Anne Cleary, in the study published in the journal Psychological Science.
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Land law needs to protect and strengthen the rights of local communities and farmers, especially small-scale farmers, rather than chasing illusory foreign investment – which all too often only benefits elites.
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Fifty years later, soixante-huitard ("sixty-eighter") remains shorthand for a certain type of baby-boomer in modern France, with nuances ranging from sexual liberation to illusory dreams of social equality.
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The senior managers regime (SMR) was introduced in March to replace a previous system that lawmakers had criticised as giving only illusory control over individuals with little prospect of enforcement action.
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So far, the theories include: Matthew Perry and Zac Efron are actually the same person in real life and don't want to wreck the illusory web they've woven all these years.
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To revolutionaries watching the "Ring", this was a wake-up call: the opera showed that socialist dreams were every bit as illusory as the religion they had set out to replace.
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Central bankers say much of the heavier liquidity in markets before the crisis was "illusory" with insufficient evidence so far to show that some of the new rules need rolling back.
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As you already know, art doesn't happen in a vacuum, and you've provided yourself with what sounds like very real and stable groundwork for building a very real, non-illusory community.
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"If there is guaranteed access to insurance without community rating, protections for people with pre-existing conditions are illusory," tweeted Larry Levitt, a healthcare expert at the Kaiser Family Foundation. Rep.
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Their work fits into a corpus of research on illusory body ownership, which has challenged understandings of perception and contributed to therapies like treating pain for amputees who experience phantom limb.
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Where today's socialists want more generous social protections through guaranteed health care, child care, and other benefits-in-kind, the distinction between government ownership and financing will be illusory in practice.
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Sentiments like these, from Bosley Crowther's review, were common: Indeed, the weakness of this picture, from this reviewer's point of view, is the sentimentality of it — its illusory concept of life.
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I think it's something that is dynamic, but what we have now is a situation where we have a lot of problems deciphering what's real and what's illusory, in terms of threat.
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Photo: APParanoid conservatives have increasingly become certain Google is trying to silence them, citing its firing of engineers who allegedly created hostile work environments and a largely illusory panic about YouTube censorship.
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"These millionaires, lulled by an illusory desire to free themselves from the existing states, seem to have much more to gain than we do," Tahitian TV host Alexandre Taliercio told the outlet.
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Donald Trump's "populism" is rooted in the idea that we need to return to the Good Ol' Days, that illusory shared past when things were simpler and no one wanted for anything.
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This British version of "make America great again" is every bit as illusory as Donald Trump's slogan — and just as potentially dangerous, for Britain and for its European and North American partners.
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To liberals grateful for institutional counterweights to the Trump Administration's crookedness, cruelty, and mendacity, Greenwald has been discouraging: U.S. institutions have long been broken, he maintains, and can offer only illusory comfort.
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In doing so, his paintings — whether stretched on canvas, painted on pre-fab wood panels, or applied directly to the wall — suggest a kind of conflicted illusory motion intended to inflect emotion.
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The Academy hailed Ishiguro's ability to reveal "the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world ... in novels of great emotional force" that touch on memory, time and self-delusion.
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The installation, about the height of a two-story house, follows on from Chinneck's previous public artworks that combine architecture, construction, sculpture, and engineering to create illusory, tricksy sculptures that defy expectations.
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But the actual prints on display, carefully floated behind glass, are also creased, and it's the difficulty of distinguishing the "real" folds from the illusory ones that gives the work its substance.
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On all of these major releases, the music often eluded genre, tried odd structures and toyed with austerity or overload; there was a sense, illusory or not, of private statements being unveiled.
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Another reason for optimism: There's growing evidence that presidential nominees understand the importance of picking a good governing partner over an illusory electoral gain, says Matt Grossmann, a political scientist at Michigan State.
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But here we see an artist decorating her dark chamber not with Louis XV armchairs, but with the illusory: a place where subtext, dreams, fantasy, and human struggles are the fuel of creation.
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I actually commented to the GM staff on hand that the Bolt has an optical illusory flair to it, because it's got a freakish amount of rear passenger legroom considering the compact dimensions.
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It is foolishly short-sighted for that community to interpret the religious exemption in the President's Executive Order in a way that makes it illusory, and to bitterly resist congressional efforts to clarify.
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In the end, the withdrawal of 1,000 US military personnel turned out to be largely illusory, as an influx of new forces to a different part of Syria left troop levels almost unchanged.
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" In "Walled States, Waning Sovereignty," she argues that walls are a largely illusory projection of the very power that states have lost to the ungovernable forces "unleashed by globalization and late modern colonization.
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" It said in a statement nearly 10,000 residents had been killed or wounded by government shelling over the past two years, which Reuters could not verify, and warned any victory would be "illusory.
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Critics said it had been restricted by a mandate, approved by the Security Council, for the establishment of so-called safe havens under United Nations protection that proved, in Srebrenica, to be illusory.
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He dismissed as "illusory" the argument that contributions from supposedly independent groups known as "super PACs" don't corrupt the political process because they don't work directly in concert with the campaigns they support.
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The recent announcements about moderate Islam, the pervasive arrests, and the illusory hypermodern economic projects frame him as a ruthless modernizer, who is struggling to achieve too many things in too little time.
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It is possible to have false or illusory political will, focused on short-term fixes or other means (see: commissions and task forces) to distract the public or create the illusion of action.
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Flat notes and stilted phrasing create a "performance of alienation" that positions the reader as a spectator viewing a world produced by exposition, flashbacks and jump cuts between memories, illusory subplots and red herrings.
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The essays in Aesthetics Equals Politics make the case for a reignited understanding of aesthetics—one that casts aesthetics not as illusory, subjective, or superficial, but as a more encompassing framework for human activity.
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That makes a lot of sense, but right now we're in a situation, because of our own leaders but also because of the internet, because we really can't discern what's real and what's illusory.
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To me, ear candling occupies a place alongside Reiki, "restorative yoga" and drinking hot toddies when I'm sick: perfectly pleasant experiences with effects that are probably illusory but no less enjoyable as a result.
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The assurances of the chief executive, John Cryan, that the bank has "strong fundamentals" echo the illusory reassurances issued by the bosses of Lehman Brothers and Royal Bank of Scotland before those institutions failed.
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The rest of Kushner's novel is so powerful and realistic you come away convinced that all such escapes are illusory, and that even for those who get out, prison is still a life sentence.
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Margolles seriously distorts a sight that at first seems pedestrian, combining improbable imagery and realities as if to say that the division we make between our world and that of the victims is illusory.
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"What we heard from John is an illusory strategy where he criticizes and identifies problems, but with all due respect doesn't have the details on how he would deal with these problems," he said.
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"Beyond that, I guess I could tell you to buy the stock, but ... I like so many other bank stocks more because it turns out that Wells Fargo's past strength was illusory," Cramer said.
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Like China, it also has extracted Western concessions for its illusory cooperation — formally supporting just enough sanctions to gain credibility in Western eyes, but never enough to bring the Kim regime into actual compliance.
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All of this is still true, in the same way that once the W.M.D. and Qaeda connections turned out to be illusory, Saddam Hussein was still a wicked dictator whose reign deserved to end.
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Reinsurance broker Willis Re on Monday said reinsurance prices continued to fall for contracts taking effect at the start of 2016 and that predictions of an end to the multi-year decline had proved illusory.
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More recently, Yale psychologist Gord Pennycook — who specializes in the study of decision making and how we interpret bullshit claims — tested the illusory truth effect with fake-news headlines ripped from the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Many of these beliefs also afford us a sense of control, even if this sense is illusory; for example, astrological horoscopes reassure us that we can forecast the otherwise unpredictable events of the forthcoming day.
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As recently as last week two U.S. service members were killed fighting the Taliban near the northern city of Kunduz, and expectations that Afghan security forces could survive without extensive foreign assistance have proved illusory.
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The whole superhero act is a ruse; Beck is a fraud who's using highly advanced technology to create realistic but illusory situations that make him look like a hero while putting Spidey in serious danger.
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So many people live with endometriosis, and yet, as Norman writes, it can be difficult to convince doctors—especially white, straight, cisgender male doctors—that their pain is meaningful, rather than psychosomatic or totally illusory.
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While insurers had indeed agreed to cover the full cost of diagnostic coronavirus tests, that may well prove illusory: Mr. Cencini's test was free but his visit to the E.R. to get it was not.
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This is a powerful time to release emotions and not the best time to take action, since Mars makes a lazy, sleazy opposition to illusory Neptune—watch out for passive aggressive behavior or sneaky people.
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If anything, the paper said, the "illusory expectations" raised by the Business Roundtable and other proponents of stakeholder governance will allow directors and officers to get away with managerial inefficiencies and even self-interested decisionmaking.
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But it's regarded as blindingly obvious among political scientists that these findings are essentially illusory, and that general election polls this far out are about as predictive now as a weather forecast for Election Day.
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"Either those earlier dermatology sales were totally illusory, the product of channel stuffing and price gouging, or Valeant is losing share hand over fist to the competition, which in this business is mostly Allergan, " Cramer said.
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"In reality, as alleged, the supposed trading results were illusory, and any payouts to customers were derived from funds fraudulently obtained from other customers in the manner of a Ponzi scheme," the CFTC write-up summarizes.
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"Wanting to escape his past, man flees to illusory American paradise," is not a novel story—and it's not one that either of those games fully sticks the landing on—but both trailers emphasize it clearly.
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Under previous administrations, those issues — along with China's illegal adventurism in the South and East China seas — were kept low-key for fear that Beijing would withhold its meager and largely illusory help on North Korea.
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Chuck D, Ice Cube, Rakim, Kendrick, Killer Mike, Kano, Mike Skinner, Little Simz and countless others, all tread the well-worn path in that illusory "ideal direction," but it will likely be decades before they're considered.
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Venus faces off with illusory Neptune and it's a little unclear who belongs in what group, but this can be a fun time to merge your different communities and just be a creative, adora-bull Taurus!
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The warm fuzzies that followed the Friday announcement had dissolved by Monday morning -- a few hours after the pair appeared side by side, again, for an interview on "60 Minutes," where Flake mourned an illusory past.
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The Witcher may depict great and important events in a fictional history, but what this first season is about is how we experience history, and how illusory is any sense of control or foreknowledge that we possess.
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Samara Golden's dramatic mirrored installation "The Meat Grinder's Iron Clothes" (2017), sited at the museum's western edge overlooking the Hudson River, rewards both close observation of its discreet spaces and an overall view of its illusory sprawl.
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YEREVAN (Reuters) - Pope Francis urged Armenia and Turkey on Saturday to seek reconciliation and to shun "the illusory power of vengeance" a century after 1.5 million Armenians were massacred in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire.
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The Republican opportunity among white working-class voters, for instance, may be illusory if those voters don't ultimately turn out, or if relatively strong Democratic candidates with strong ties to their districts can make a solid pitch.
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Yet if there is one thing this turbulent history teaches us, it is that "last hurrahs" can be as illusory as the "end of ideology" predicted in the 1950s or Francis Fukuyama's "end of history" of 1989.
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But as a thaw takes hold ahead of the first North Korea-South Korea summit in a decade, Trump could be about to be dragged down the same frustrating, illusory and inconclusive diplomatic path as his predecessors.
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For many transgender men and women, this symbolism has always resonated; we grew up in a gendered world designed by other people's imagination, imprisoned in bodies with illusory boundaries that we were falsely told could not be crossed.
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The Nobel committee, awarding him the prize for literature on October 5th, rightly praised him as an author "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".
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In the end, Game of Thrones — a show about the illusory nature of power and how difficult it is to govern, much less lead — was undone by its commitment to the most obviously awesome elements in its text.
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It is low hanging fruit for Trump's infrastructure agenda and a great opportunity to paint the president as a liar who is willing to break his promises of no taxes on middle income people for an illusory promise.
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This path offers a simple yet illusory way to "take back control," but in fact accomplishes the opposite: It gives up control to power-hungry demagogues who divide us, weaken civil society and feed us dead-end solutions.
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But the Chinese promises would be largely illusory, economists cautioned, given the structural hurdles in China to buying more American exports and the sheer amount of goods the United States would have to produce to meet Beijing's demand.
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In a 2017 paper that Rand co-authored, when participants see headlines repeated, they're more likely to believe them (a consequence of what's known as the illusory truth effect), but less likely to share them on social media.
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But it is just as illusory to claim that liberals manufactured panic about Romney, and in turn inured Republican voters to similar complaints about Trump, as it is to claim the stars cease to exist each morning at sunrise.
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BURG MIGHEIZIL, Egypt — In the raggedy fishing village of Burg Migheizil on Egypt's north coast, where the mighty Nile pours silently into the sea, restless teenage boys are plotting their escape, lured by illusory dreams of money and glamour.
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But as Curtis insists, brandishing his science, technology, and gaming credentials isn't merely a ploy to win illusory internet points, but a way to illustrate why the good people of Indiana's ninth congressional district should send him to Washington.
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It scapegoats migrants, instills fear, glorifies an illusory past (what the Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman called "retrotopia"), exalts machismo, mocks do-gooder liberalism and turns the angry drumbeat of social media into its hypnotic minute-by-minute mass rally.
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"The Yellow Christ," painted the next year, stages the Crucifixion on a hillside far more golden than any Breton landscape — a brilliant yellow that he would reuse in his equally illusory Tahitian painting "Parahi Te Marae" ("The Sacred Mountain").
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The freedom these bikes provided was illusory, of course, and so were the powers we conferred upon them (it seemed as though they'd stop working as soon as you put on a helmet or told a parent where you were going).
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As a psychologist who specializes in illusory experiences, I'm not trying to say that people's minds are flawed or their cognitive systems are limited, but I am trying to say that these systems are often weirder than most of us imagine.
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After rounds of failed Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, Clinton indicated in one email that she thinks even an illusory "Potemkin" process is better than nothing -- raising the possibility that she'll champion a new effort should she enter the White House.
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The collapse in stock prices of such master limited partnerships as Plains All American and Energy Transfer Partners shows such protection proved illusory once global oil prices reached depths that began threatening survival of their customers - oil and gas producers.
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But I also feel we're in the middle of a vast, arid landscape, dotted here and there with tiny little patches of grass and flowers, illusory mirages that convey a false sense of what publishing and writing really should mean.
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In one corner, a neat pile of clothing is topped with an upside-down bowler hat rigged with an illusory tunnel of mirrored lights so compelling that a gallery visitor had to be discouraged from trying to pick it up.
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Obama's middle road – gradually increasing modest levels of aid in fits and starts, while talking tough and drawing illusory red lines – is producing none of the benefits and most of the drawbacks of full-on American support for the rebels.
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But the BoE downgraded its longer-term view for the economy, saying border checks from 2021 would add to drags on growth, and it kept the door open to lower rates if the signs of a pick-up prove illusory.
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The government countered with an inflammatory claim: The Puerto Rico deal was, as Hoory put it in a filing, "illusory in nature, serving no material economic purpose except to shift income to Puerto Rico" and was thus a tax shelter.
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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than a dozen states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its separation of migrant children and parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying President Donald Trump's order last week ending the breakups was illusory.
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Still, there are also reasons to suspect Biden's current lead is a lot like Giuliani's in 2007 or Jeb Bush's in early 2015 — that it's illusory, based on a vague general positive impression that won't survive contact with an actual campaign.
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It's a very Christian imagining of Tam Lin, with lots of dark muttering over the "heathen" fairy folk, whose magic always proves to be illusory and whom Kate and Christopher are able to escape because of their good Christian morality.
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The law provides no standards for ballot rejection, Walker wrote in his decision, saying the fact that Florida has an "illusory process" for voters to fix their ballots to have their vote count and "no process to challenge the rejection" is unconstitutional.
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STOCKHOLM, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Japanese-born Kazuo Ishiguro has won the Nobel Prize for Literature for uncovering "the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world," the Swedish Academy said on Thursday on awarding the 9 million crown ($1.1 million) prize.
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Morris said as a result it would be harder for Britain to achieve the illusory standard of "equivalence" to achieve post-Brexit market access to the EU as it becomes increasingly unattractive for London's financial center to equate to a less liberal regime.
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"For the most part, they are illusory, because they are restricting money that doesn't really play any significant role in funding the inauguration," said Fred Wertheimer, a longtime advocate of campaign finance overhaul, referring to the restrictions on lobbyists and foreign interests.
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A social science study published last year on the "illusory truth effect" in the Journal for Experimental Psychology has shown that even when we know something is false, if we hear it repeated enough times, we start to believe it is true.
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Of course, even this security can turn out to be illusory as Salman Taseer, Governor of Punjab, was to discover when he was killed by his own guard in 2011 for visiting Asia in prison and calling for her to be released.
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Johnson, who has litigated against the NCAA on multiple occasions, believes the threat of biased judges is illusory, and that invoking it to justify the Restitution Rule only highlights its true purpose—placing the association's decisions beyond the reach of the judiciary.
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"For the most part, they are illusory, because they are restricting money that doesn't really play any significant role in funding the inauguration," said Fred Wertheimer, a longtime advocate of campaign finance overhaul, referring to the restrictions on lobbyists and foreign interests.
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Still, there are also reasons to suspect Biden's current lead is a lot like [Rudy] Giuliani's in 2007 or Jeb Bush's in early 2015 — that it's illusory, based on a vague general positive impression that won't survive contact with an actual campaign.
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This 20-year-old firm uses that "postindustrial waste," as the co-chief executive Jennifer Biscoe put it, to make custom floor tiles in practically any color and pattern, including optical illusory designs that could give a room a fun-house feel.
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Political analysts cautioned that the benefits Mr. Trump presents in the short-term for the mayor may prove illusory, as the shock of his election wears off and the take-out-the-garbage details of a municipal election return to the fore.
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In northwestern Haiti, local community members have stories of foreign companies stripping their land rights using nefarious tactics: papers delivered to landowners already bearing their signature, illusory promises of new hospitals, and requests for illiterate villagers to "sign" agreements with a fingerprint.
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Namely, the complaint states that Metro's advertised 30-day guarantee is "wholly illusory" because the company's online website is set up to require customers to buy devices in-store but also has in place a seven-day return policy for in-person purchases.
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I imagine the series of paintings she created in 1975 in which bright-white squares are framed by mesmerizing planes of blue, goldenrod and fiery red — intended to draw moths to an illusory light, they give off a sense of ascension and expansion.
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"Pragmatic advances and patient construction with those who are ready and willing for a political convergence in defense are infinitely preferable to totally illusory and even counterproductive slogans and incantations," said Arnaud Danjean, a member of the foreign and defense committee at the European parliament.
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So long as we keep historically detailed activity logs across services – private or public – without effective means to clear the data that is no longer needed or can be secured, encryption remains a half-measure giving only a temporary and illusory sense of security.
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The lawsuit also argues that Alcor is preying on the elderly, persuading them to sign agreements that the complaint states are "largely illusory," adding that the company exploited Dr. Pilgeram by convincing him to enter an agreement that they didn't plan on complying with.
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A judge on Thursday ruled that the state law allowing election officials to reject those ballots "with no standards, an illusory process to cure, and no process to challenge the rejection," was unconstitutional, and required that all those voters be given until 5 p.m.
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So long as we keep historically detailed activity logs across services — private or public — without effective means to clear the data that is no longer needed or can be secured, encryption remains a half-measure, giving only a temporary and illusory sense of security.
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Dubbed by Linklater as a "spiritual" successor to Dazed and Confused, that's actually just it: It really does feel like it captures the era and its particular fun-time vibe, an illusory oasis where, at one college in Texas, the outside world doesn't exist.
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While easy to box the situation behind words of privilege, elitism, or immaturity, the broader truth is that many Americans who travel abroad carry a justified pride in America, but create a broader problem for our people internationally when that pride transcends into illusory arrogance.
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The problem this bill is meant to solve is that the entire professional right lied to the GOP base for seven years about the horrors of the Affordable Care Act, vowed to right all of its illusory wrongs, and now must answer for these hysterics.
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For Puerto Rico, the creation of the commonwealth and the ratification of its Constitution by Congress in 1952, and the political hegemony of the pro-territory Popular Democratic Party for close to three decades, has been for many an illusory narrative of self-determination.
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While reassuring American allies South Korea and Japan of the United States' steadfast commitment to their defense, the Trump administration should also persuade Seoul and Tokyo not to fall for the same trap of settling for an illusory peace in the face of Pyongyang's intimidation.
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"We need to get back to work," Rami Malek's Elliot says, before being cautioned by the illusory Mr. Robot (Christian Slater) that Elliot's battle against the corporate monolith E Corp (and, more broadly, the entire institutions of finance and government) is ultimately a futile one.
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In a policy statement, the central bank came up with downbeat economic growth forecasts, saying Brexit would weigh on growth from next year, and it kept the door open to lower rates if the recent signs of a pick-up prove to be illusory.
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The Scottish artist, based in Brussels, revives a long tradition of trompe-l'oeil painting through exacting depictions of bureaucratic safety regulations on billboards, and the trickery continues in nonfunctional painted "furniture" — a bed, a vanity, a grand desk — whose faux-marble surfaces seem to support illusory objects.
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In his ruling, Walker, an appointee of former President Obama, appeared to side with attorneys for Nelson, who claimed that Florida's current process for evaluating provisional and mail-in ballots with mismatched signatures lacked uniform standards and offered voters only an "illusory process to cure" the issues.
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I dreamt of participating in a social justice march like those of the '60s, and felt that I had been born into the wrong generation, without any scintilla of a concept of the frustration, pain, and deep sacrifice that was necessary to elicit even illusory change.
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It has done so by making him the illusory promise of a speedy U.S.-UK free trade deal on the most favorable of terms for the UK. Sadly, the chances are now high that the Trump administration will get the hard-Brexit that it has been wanting.
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"Although the MacArthur amendment states that the ban on pre-existing conditions remains intact, this assurance may be illusory, as status underwriting could effectively make coverage completely unaffordable to people with pre-existing conditions," said Dr. James L. Madara, the chief executive of the American Medical Association.
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The artist had set out to explore scale and perceptions of distance, but once the sculpture was finished it evoked for him "the gradual, often illusory, notion of progress that Washington [a civil-society leader] encouraged blacks to adopt in the 19th century against an overwhelming set of obstacles".
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But that calm and outward vitality could well be illusory, as was the long period of stability between the euro's introduction -- first as common accounting currency in 1999 and then in note and coin form in 2002 -- and the onset of the European debt crisis in late 2009.
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Instead of announcing plans for an illusory victory in Afghanistan, President Trump and his generals should more comprehensively seek to refine pertinent complex combat orthodoxies (involving advanced integration of all deterrence, preemption, and war-fighting options) and to fashion certain bold new ideas for international ties and alignments.
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From workers set to lose jobs, to those on the much-debated Irish border and hundreds of thousands of expats across continental Europe whose visa fates are uncertain, the lives of millions have been reduced to percentage points on GDP, cannon fodder in the illusory crusade for sovereignty.
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I had been convinced that all red wine tasted basically like red wine, all white wine tasted basically like white wine, and the minutiae provided in verbose tasting notes ("Hints of cassis and the vintner's beard, with lilac on the nose") were just illusory emperor-has-no-clothes gibberish.
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But as the Supreme Court abandons its role as a guardian of voting rights, and the Trump administration ramps up its efforts to combat the illusory threat of voter fraud, this once-esoteric position could be a key bulwark in protecting Americans' right to choose their own political destiny.
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The truth was that the fabled world of the gods was the real one, while the supposedly actual world inhabited by human beings was an illusion, and maya , the veil of illusion, was the magic by which the gods persuaded men and women that their illusory world was real.
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In the long run, I'm still hopeful that this phase will pass — that the stability and sugar highs that these strongmen offer will prove to be illusory — and that the free flow of ideas and people, and regular rotations in power, will prove superior vehicles for the greater good.
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Yet the artworks also contain beauty — as in the gray-black luster that coats "Charred Tulips" (all works are from 2018) — and inspire wonder, as at the edges of "Boarded Up Window, Brooklyn," where Ms. Hegarty has painstakingly blended an illusory derelict wall with the gallery's pristine one.
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Or, rather, to pretend to inhabit a version of 2019 in which the evolution of technology and culture had ceased 25 years prior — an idea that melded the elegance of Einstein's notions about time's illusory nature with the perplexing militance of a living history flash mob of one.
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Nevertheless, our nation remained in deep denial that a new caste system even existed, and most of us — even those who cared deeply about racial justice — did not seem to understand that powerful racial dynamics and political forces were at play that made much of our racial progress illusory.
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We are in an illusory age of elective politics — a fantasy world in which candidates make wild promises and give new definition to the word "bombast"; a world in which the electorate tunes in with a complicit understanding that none of it has anything to do with governing.
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Freedom is illusory in his novel, and iniquity unbound by latitude, but he knows that the story of slavery is fundamentally the story of America, and he uses Cora's journey to observe our nation, from an upper-crust mixed-race family in Boston to a farming community in Indiana.
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But that is chasing an illusory and dangerous goal: It is hard to see how a few thousand American troops could counter tens of thousands of Iranian and Iranian-backed forces, aligned both with Moscow and President Bashar al-Assad's regime that has largely won the civil war.
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Instead of returning to a model of permanently memorializing an illusory and grandiloquent past, why not consider commissioning temporary commemorative works rooted in local community histories and struggles that would reflect the multifaceted history of the United States from the bottom up, rather than from the top down?
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The bank's defeat proved illusory, however, as Republican leaders allowed a bipartisan transportation funding bill that passed in December to also provide for the bank to be recharted through 2018 — simultaneously saving the bank and confirming Tea Partiers' sense that Republican leaders had never truly been on board for their crusade.
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Yet an independent Scotland might well mean a harder border with England, particularly if Scotland rejoined the EU. Pro-Europeans have noted that the sovereignty you regain by leaving a union is illusory when it also means losing the clout you get as a member of a more powerful group.
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" Against a centralized surveillance state that imposes a motionless and false order and an illusory happiness in the name of a utilitarian calculus of "justice," Basile concludes, Zamyatin envisages a different utopia: "In fact, only within the 'here and now' of beauty may the equation of happiness be considered fully verified.
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"Although the MacArthur amendment states that the ban on pre-existing conditions remains intact, this assurance may be illusory as health status underwriting could effectively make coverage completely unaffordable to people with preexisting conditions," the AMA wrote in a letter Thursday to House Speaker Paul Ryan and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
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"The precise issue in this case is whether Florida's law that allows county election officials to reject vote-by-mail and provisional ballots for mismatched signatures — with no standards, an illusory process to cure, and no process to challenge the rejection — passes constitutional muster," Judge Mark Walker wrote in his decision.
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Laurence Tribe, a professor at Harvard Law School, and Joshua Matz, an attorney in private practice, write in their 2014 book Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution that Allowing government to control who can spend enough to get heard on a grander scale would render freedom of speech illusory.
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But Madawi al-Rasheed of the London School of Economics questions that in an NYT op-ed: The recent announcements about moderate Islam, the pervasive arrests, and the illusory hypermodern economic projects frame him as a ruthless modernizer, who is struggling to achieve too many things in too little time.
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The artist's achievement is his ability to demonstrate the terrible cruelty and bloodshed on Earth, by illustrating the ironic contradiction between the reality of the Syrian war and the illusory plan invented by refugees to flee their homes for Mars, the planet the god of war has granted his name to.
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By indulging in a manic expenditure of labor for an inadequate period of time — the opposite of relying on skills and illusory gestures — Smith distracts himself from self-doubt, critical reassessment, or any of the other stumbling blocks painters face in their effort to produce work with human resonance and historical awareness.
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READ SPENCER'S MOTION "Spencer, by contrast, has searched for legal help and has not been able to find a lawyer in Virginia to take his case, despite the supposed but apparently illusory ethical obligation lawyers have to represent unpopular clients and to assure at least a semblance of a fair trial," he wrote.
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And with it, questions of what is valued in society, how women perceive their bodies (and how their bodies are perceived) and how fashion perpetuates the problem by engaging in seemingly illusory, inconsistent and exclusionary sizing that ignores an enormous part of the population, discombobulates the rest and fosters a negative culture of judgment.
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"Not only the promise of full employment by 2018 for the Italian plants has turned out to be ... illusory or even a bit mocking, but any new investment is unlikely to start by September, and maybe not even by the end of the year," said Federico Bellono, the FIOM union's regional secretary general in Turin.
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Ms. Lorenz — the daughter of an American actress with whom she was interned as a child in a concentration camp and a father who commanded a U-boat fleet — led a colorful life so implausible that separating the morsels of reality from what may be illusory, or at any rate unprovable, is all but impossible.
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A wholesale shift from hydrocarbons to renewables presage energy scarcity and exorbitant price, as has already occurred in Germany and the U.K. As Smil reminds us, "Any rapid substitution by low power renewable densities is illusory without dismantling existing urban societies," and such is the path on which developed world has now set itself.
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"The precise issue in this case is whether Florida's law that allows county election officials to reject vote-by-mail and provisional ballots for mismatched signatures — with no standards, an illusory process to cure, and no process to challenge the rejection — passes constitutional muster," says the order from Judge Walker in the Northern District of Florida.
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" Said Heidi Altman, director of policy at the National Immigrant Justice Center: "The president's invocation of the word 'crisis' to describe what is happening on the border disrespects the lives lost in CBP and ICE custody and the suffering of thousands waiting in Mexico for a now-often-illusory chance to seek safety in the United States.
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Jefferson and Rousseau held similarly fraught views on liberty, given that the former was a slave owner who also criticized George III for participation in the slave trade, while the latter wrote much about the concept of slavery to describe the illusory nature of freedom but had little to say about the actual institution of race-based slavery.
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The message of both the 2014 Florida decision and Tuesday's ruling from Wisconsin is that damages caps place the burden of solving a probably illusory problem on the already bowed shoulders of horrendously injured patients – those so severely injured that judges and juries believe they deserve hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation for their pain and suffering.
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To be sure, Debbie is contending with unbridled sexism, but as she laments her plight in the plush setting of her dining room she ignores the material advantages of her position—that her successful, white ex-husband Mark (Rich Sommer) has access to the executives who have empowered Debbie, even if that power seems, to her, illusory.
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And what I can tell you is that from the early days of this administration, President Trump made it clear that this time, in this administration, it would be different from prior administrations, where North Korea found a way to get concessions from the United States and from countries in the west in exchange for illusory promises about abandoning their nuclear weapons program.
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Interwoven in Xanther's story is her father, Anwar, whose work in game design provides some of the book's more compelling evocations (proving Danielewski isn't devoid of talent, and that perhaps he should rely on language more often than formatting theatrics), but still only semi-absently revolving around references to the structure of the characters as characters, the plot as illusory and hyperbolically blank.
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Online dating may also seem compelling even when it isn't delivering on results: A study last year showed that people tend to chase potential partners online who are more 25 percent more attractive than they are, suggesting the "success" of these apps hinge at least in part on a kind of widened, illusory higher-quality dating pool they might not deliver on.
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Online-only retailers continue to methodically order their businesses to take advantage of the legal loophole in a way that shortchanges citizens by failing to collect the taxes that are owed and then trading off the illusory price advantage in a manner that undercuts local businesses — forcing many to the brink of extinction — thereby further eroding the local jobs and tax base.
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Chand's witnesses also pointed out that researchers had identified more than 200 biological abnormalities that offer specific competitive advantages, among them increased aerobic capacity, resistance to fatigue, exceptionally long limbs, flexible joints, large hands and feet and increased numbers of fast-twitch muscle fibers — all of which make the idea of a level playing field illusory, and not one of which is regulated if it is innate.
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The Moon enters intellectual Air sign Gemini at 10:30 AM, inspiring us to connect with others and socialize, but watch out for complications around relating when the moon opposes Venus at 11:09 AM. Generous vibes take over when the Moon connects with jovial Jupiter in Libra at 12:11 AM, and weird dreams arrive at 1:47 AM, when the Moon clashes with illusory Neptune.
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The country needs at least one great news organization that understands that the truth is neither relative nor illusory nor a function of the prevailing structure of power — but also that the truth is many-sided; that none of us has a lock on it; and that we can best approach it through the patient accumulation of facts and a vigorous and fair contest of ideas.
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A rivalry between cities sets the stage for a new exhibition of original artworks by visual artist Pablo Power and American gangsta rap pioneer, Schoolly D. In addition to Power's illusory, split mirrored compositions, Philly VS New York: A Declaration of Co-Independence features some of the rapper's more personal works, developed in recent years, as well as original pieces that have served as his album covers in the past.
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