Sentence examples for based on the delusion from inspiring English sources

No sooner had Dwight Eisenhower taken office than he told an acquaintance that it was going to be damned difficult to conduct a foreign policy based on the delusion that China was an offshore island.

They feel the school's abuse of the loose definition leads prospective students to enroll based on the delusion of guaranteed employment post-graduation.

This dreaded fear of "giving up" your guns is based on the delusion that someone plans to force you to hand over your hardware.

Caylor deemed the "double curve" to be "an ocular delusion," but claimed that Getzein's nickname was based on the delusion: "[W]e have the nickname of 'the Pretzel Pitcher,' given to Getzein by players who imagine the curve from his hands comes at them with the curves of a pretzel".

Unfortunately, though the new realism may have come soon enough to prevent a disaster on Social Security -- for Mr. Bush's other signature policy proposal was also based on the delusions of a bubble economy -- it has come too late to prevent a disastrous tax cut.

But Tracy senses that Brooke's life plans are not working out and starts on a new short story entitled Mistress America based on the tragicomic delusions of Brooke's life: this cruelty unlocks a disloyal creative force.

"The whole Buckley experiment may have been a passing phase," says Lind – a strange interlude when a cohort of writers mistook their ideological preferences for the will of the people and, even stranger, provided the basis for an industry based on that delusion.

And, we make decisions based on this delusion of scarcity.

We first compared the prevalence of schizophrenia spectrum disorders (based on the DICA, SCID-I and K-SADS-PL), definite hallucinations and delusions, and subthreshold hallucinations and delusions (based on the K-SADS-PL) across age groups using Chi-square tests.

Therefore, ClinTouch was equipped with a 'delusion' menu on the admin page, which allowed the researcher to personalise which delusions a participant was currently experiencing based on the initial PANSS interview and reports by clinical staff.

The allocation of scales to the two sets was based on the need to assess overlapping symptom domains (e.g. paranoia and delusions) at the same time-point and to keep the number of items balanced.