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The confused and overlapping patchwork of autonomous NHS structures that Mr Lansley left behind could easily render Mr Cameron's hopes of seven-day care a daydream.
These are fine things to daydream about next time you take to the skies.
Senior figures still daydream about self-sufficiency, looking back to Maoist doctrine and to the terrible man-made famine of the late 1950s.
But then a mysterious masked figure dubbed Koala Boy dropped out of the foliage to shatter the national daydream about stable governments untroubled by accusations of electoral fraud.In a widely disseminated video-recording, a so-far unidentified man said he was a witness to wholesale electronic fraud during the elections.
The government raised by 50% the insurance paid out to families of those killed working at high altitude, to $15,000.In this section Man out of time Actress, cricketer, dynast... Pivotal Uncertain haven When the wind blows Into thin air Daydream believers ReprintsSensing the bitter mood, leaders of most of the 32 expeditions have abandoned their climbs.
Yet street protests culminated with a rally of nearly 30,000 on April 27th.In this section Man out of time Actress, cricketer, dynast... Pivotal Uncertain haven When the wind blows Into thin air Daydream believers Reprints Related topics Taipei Civil unrest War and conflict Democratic Progressive Party (Taiwan) Protests and demonstrationsAs the crowds swelled, Mr Ma huddled with his advisers.
In today's 50-50 AMrrica, Mr Bush's main priority is to galvanise his half of the electorate.Yet it is worth remembering that in the 1980s many liberals thought that Mr Reagan was a weird aberration a long national daydream , to quote the title of a book from the period.
LIKE a poolside daydream , Barack Obama's plan to get Congress to authorise the use of force in Syria, announced during the Labour Day holiday, did not survive two weeks back at work.
Mr Singh keeps a characteristic silence, but is an inevitable target for the BJP.In this section Man out of time Actress, cricketer, dynast... Pivotal Uncertain haven When the wind blows Into thin air Daydream believers ReprintsThe most spiteful critics, though, come from his own party.
Perhaps somewhere in the White House people even allowed themselves to daydream that a moment of bipartisan unity in confronting a dictator who gassed children might make the president's autumn battles with Republicans over the debt ceiling and the budget a little more civil.Instead, the administration found itself struggling to bring around Congress.
The national curriculum intended to ensure that all children learned the basics has become a "solipsistic daydream".
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The primary grammatical function of "daydream" is as both a noun , referring to the state of being lost in thought, and a verb , describing the act of engaging in such thoughts. This duality is supported by Ludwig's examples.
Expression frequency: Very common
