(As an example of how America provides "adequate illusions" of social equality, he notes that fans of, say, the Los Angeles Lakers "can vicariously share in their team's triumphal quest for enduring greatness").
Members of Congress and the Obama administration have assured us that on January 1 , 2014 junk health insurance plans -- which offer only the illusion of adequate coverage to the millions of Americans enrolled in them -- will become a thing of the past.
But that would be an illusion, not because we have adequate weapons, but because Israel this time would be fighting against a people with nothing to lose.
The theory of appearing was in turn rejected by many philosophers, who held that it failed to provide an adequate account of the epistemological status of illusions and other visual anomalies.
"The concept that a volunteer fire department provides adequate fire and emergency protection is the biggest illusion since Houdini," Anthony Pagano, president of the Yonkers Professional Firefighters Union, said in a statement last week, two days after Mr. Kelly's appointment.
My self-care illusions of meditation, yoga, exercise, clean eating, adequate sleep, all topped off with a cup of tea, are very quickly being challenged.
In the tradition of wedding registries, which for years have lulled people into believing that a full set of flatware was adequate ammunition for marching into marriage, baby registries promise the illusion of success.
As in the original study, we adopted the following exclusion criteria: (1) failure to complete all tasks properly or to provide adequate data; (2) reporting an experience of a more intense illusion during the asynchronous condition compared with the synchronous condition; and (3) reporting a score of < 3 out of 20 on the intensity of the RHI scale in the synchronous condition.
Another group of illusions results from misinterpretations one makes of seemingly adequate sensory cues.
The CAB also determined that Captain Carson had neither the time nor adequate information to assess Flight 663's position relative to Pan Am 212 and, given the illusion of a collision course, he had acted appropriately in initiating evasive maneuvers.
