Sentence examples for despite the illusion from inspiring English sources
That's because, despite the illusion of ordered non-hierarchy, some people have vastly more power than others, and in many cases have had it for centuries.
In 2013, the first year of the Peña Nieto government, Mexico had dropped another place to 106, despite the illusion of progress.
There are times when we come to the end of our own resources and must throw ourselves on God -- which is really always our true spiritual state, despite the illusions of our own self-sufficiency.
It has affected to render its political clout materially superior to the real civil power of the people it serves despite offering the illusion that free elections will change current conditions.
Moreover, despite the apparent illusion that abortion is unregulated in the United States, it is actually already pretty heavily regulated.
There's just one massive mitigating factor in this prospect - despite the Wizard of Oz-hollowness of the illusion, the spectacle remains entirely bewitching.
It's gold tissue boxes on plastic-coated coffee tables in Indian houses; it's glassware cabinets in Iranian homes; it's doormats and picture frames and school drawings stuck to fridge magnets that create the illusion of being settled, despite living at the whim of your local housing association.
For two days Western governments clung to the illusion that Vladimir Putin would not ignore their concerns, despite the hour-by-hour escalation of events in Crimea.
Dmitry Andreev devised a framing system that gave the illusion of operating at 60 frames per second (FPS), despite running at 30FPS.
Despite the absence of spray and surf it is hard to shake off the illusion.
