Sentence examples for have proved illusory from inspiring English sources

Those connections have proved illusory.

Hopes that pledges of new austerity would turn sentiment toward Greece around have proved illusory, and more officials are acknowledging that Greece has to cut its debt, meaning losses for those who hold Greek bonds.

May's terse acknowledgement of the need for "further negotiation and consultation" also put a brave face on the impasse but suggested any narrowing may, for now, have proved illusory.

If so, the old rules will have held, and his appearance of support will have proven illusory.

No jail time, no financial penalties, not even a clawback of bonuses – even though these were based on profits that have proven illusory.

Expectations that NATO might ride to the rescue have proven illusory.

That promise has proved illusory.

But that has proved illusory once already.

But this apparent meeting of minds has proved illusory.

The N.F.L. hopes that is true in London, even though it has proved illusory elsewhere.

The idea that Germany could somehow emerge from the current economic crisis unscathed has proved illusory.