Sentence examples similar to illusory gain from inspiring English sources

The economically illusory gains of finance distract people from more valuable tasks.

The collapse in productivity followed the end of the North Sea oil boom, the crash that exposed big banks' illusory gains, and short-termist vandalism wreaked upon research budgets.

This is no breakthrough; it is business as usual: developing countries and other agricultural exporters trading real concessions for illusory gains.Aaron Cosbey International Institute for Sustainable Development Winnipeg, Canada.

The swaps and shrewd accounting provided illusory gains for many carriers, even as the bandwidth business fell apart.

She excoriates the statistical misreading that led to the illusory achievement gains in New York City's once-celebrated District 2 and slams what she describes as former San Diego Superintendent Alan Bersin's morale-destroying coercion of teachers and principals to follow liberal departures from direct instruction.

(Even that relied on a credit-driven bubble economy delivering high capital-gains taxes from illusory real-estate gains we won't likely see again).To get spending down to the level we're taxed at, we'd have to cut back to persistent levels of federal spending we haven't seen in 50 years.

But the gain was illusory: it was accounted for by the solid debut of glossy technology magazine Wired, which contributed sales of 48,275, and the fact that Condé Nast Brides, with 68,586, only reports once a year.

But the gains are illusory.

But sceptics fear that many of the gains are illusory.

"It is impossible to tell what percentage of the gains were illusory," he said.

Not to sacrifice the future for the present; not to ignore aggression in the hopes of gaining an illusory peace.