One could say, then, that Judge Leon's reasoning and the decision it leads to are based on a linguistic mirage, a will o' the wisp, although the damage the decision might allow to be done, if it is upheld, is no mirage at all.
In the face of such perceived threats -- though some were mirages, based on a slew of false C.I.A. reports -- the United States withdrew from Sudan in late 1995.
"What we think of now as green is a marketing mirage," usually based on a single environmentally friendly practice, said Daniel Goleman, author of "Ecological Intelligence," who switched deodorants and shampoos because of GoodGuide.
His most-recent release, Dazzling Mirage (2014), a romance based on a novel by Olayinka Egbokhare, portrayed a sickle-cell anemia sufferer who surmounts social stigma and low self-esteem to become a successful wife and mother.
Instead, we had the mirage of an economic "plan" for jobs and growth, which on closer inspection turned out to be trickle-down economics based on a bunch of tax cuts for the better off.
Based on Mirage, Reimer et al. [4] present the Mirage image format (MIF), a new storage format for virtual machine disk images.
The Cheetah, its principal fighter jet, is based on the French Mirage and uses 30-year-old technology.
Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh recently dismissed President Obama's "green energy" program as a mirage based on non-existent solar and wind industries.
There's a downside to running a nightclub based, in large part, on a mirage.
