Sentence examples similar to chasing mirages from inspiring English sources
"For the rest of us, it's like chasing a mirage".
"They should have done some strategic rethinking instead of chasing this mirage, this dream of a merger.
Maybe, but American officials have been chasing the mirage of victory in the Andean coca war for two decades now.
Addressing NATO, he went on: "You are setting fire to the sea, you are setting fire to the desert, you are chasing a mirage.
All the socialists in and out of the Labour Party who tried to take the side of workers' democracy against capitalist oligarchy were chasing a mirage.
Moving from patterns of thinking and believing to our practice of education, design and community living, he systematically shows how we can stop chasing the mirage of certainty and control in a complex and unpredictable world.
He has been waging the campaign for so long that many of his friends and much of his family think he's delusional, a man chasing a mirage.
But Slaughter also seems to have been chasing a mirage by establishing the expectation that she ought to be able to manage a highly demanding job while also providing everything her 12- and 14-year-old sons needed.
Instead of a long-overdue debate about the wisdom of rebuilding in areas of extreme fire danger, residents and developers chased the mirage of "defensible space".
This, combined with the fact that some of these challenges are simultaneously growing more urgent, is pushing Democrats toward more ambitious solutions and away from a futile, accommodationist effort to chase the mirage of consensus with the center-right.
