Sentence examples for an illusion of progress from inspiring English sources

Further liberalising reforms would be electoral poison.Ms Merkel's coalition-management skills create an illusion of progress.

Some fancy new language will doubtless be found to give an illusion of progress.

"There is an illusion of progress," Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka of UN Women told reporters in London on Monday.

Stem cell researchers have created an illusion of progress by claiming regular advances in the 12 years since human embryonic stem cells were first developed.

He explains how the enormous bureaucracy of Nokia produced pet projects and internal fragmentation, paralyzing the development process while producing an illusion of progress to many middle managers.

In any longer view, the endemic instability of human institutions is clear, but it is denied by all of those who project an illusion of progress back into history and forwards into the future.

This week Mr Obama noted that 11 states had lowered their standards to give an illusion of students' progress.

Since then many countries have been creating an illusion of continual progress by running up hefty debts to finance their welfare states.

Always look for ways of achieving things rather than reasons why you can't. 5. Get things done quicker: Most railway projects are discussed and assessed for many years creating an illusion of activity and progress – by which time opportunities and benefits are lost.

In the wonderful closing chapter, Alarcón expands these dramatised ironies to encompass an entire nation, whose illusion of progress fails to conceal a divided, dispirited people.

These developments which encroached on the agricultural land, are now muted ghosts of an illusion of the consumption and "progress" that spectacularly collapsed, affecting the entire Valley and now the global community.