Sentence examples similar to abandoning illusion from inspiring English sources

That means not concessions, but being tougher in pursuit of deterrence, and abandoning illusions that a Jewish state will ever be broadly accepted here.

With some careful planning and abandoned illusions about proper sleep, you become a scientist by day and a journalist by night.

Or seize on a new mission, abandoning the illusion of aesthetic autonomy?

Or do you seize on a new mission, abandoning the illusion of aesthetic autonomy?

So why not make things easier for all concerned, and much less expensive, by abandoning the illusion that we can stop or even diminish drug use by declaring it illegal?

Saddam "found it impossible to abandon the illusion of having W.M.D.," the study says.

Those who think it is confined to rural Egypt and poor communities should abandon that illusion.

We must abandon the illusion that the defining issue in the region is a battle between moderates and hardliners.

"To give a bank ultimate control over university appointments and grant them the right to embargo faculty research results for up to two years is to abandon any illusion of university independence and self-governance," he said.

And the columnist Joseph Kraft, apparently thinking along very much the same lines as Lippmann, wrote that a "crisis of authority" had arisen, and that the Democrats were "not yet ready to abandon the illusion that the world can be run from a single place" and so were "not equipped to back away from the true source of the crisis in authority".

It's time to abandon the illusion, and adapt to the reality of Islam.