Sentence examples for illusory benefits from inspiring English sources

If they didn't, they would do something about it -- as have some other, more caring societies -- rather than continue to reap the (illusory) benefits of cheap labor.

Wherever the European Union has brought its farm subsidies and other illusory benefits, it has eradicated local, unique, diverse cultures in favor of an imposed lock-step conformity.

That isn't surprising, given that UCITA "provides only illusory benefits to users," in the view of Stephen Chow, a Boston lawyer who was the lone dissenting member of the act's drafting committee.

They advocate pain for others in the service of some illusory benefit.

If easy credit was the illusory benefit of the banking boom, then patriotic pride was the collective fantasy of the imperial boom.

But Mr. Yansouni said that without the rebate program, potential new PeopleSoft customers "would be stopped dead in their tracks" and that Oracle's offer of free transfer to its software was an illusory benefit.

Unless you really value a larger monetary base (4x more than bitcoin) or faster confirmation times that provide illusory benefit (you just need 4x more of them for the same amount of certainty), there isn't much you can do with Litecoin that you can't do at far more places or with far more people than Bitcoin.

Efficiency savings may turn out to be illusory; welfare payments may rise, not fall, if unemploment rises or if people drift from one benefit to another, as happened when the unemployed switched to incapacity benefit.

Voters rarely know much, if anything, about the candidates, making illusory the democratic benefits of such elections.

"In the S.E.C.'s view, the D.O.J.'s forfeiture powers render any perceived bankruptcy benefit illusory," lawyers for the regulator wrote.

But the benefits are illusory, charge the insurgents.