History will record that the Islamic State caliphate a bizarre pseudo-state founded on illusory goals, created by a global horde of jihadis, and enforced with perverted viciousness survived for three years, three months and some eighteen days.
Surely, the Dell-EMC deal and the potential beer combination are far more logical than pie-in-the-sky deals driven by illusory goals or fantastical synergy claims, such as the infamous AOL-Time Warner merger in 1999, widely considered the worst deal ever.
But that the CIA can wantonly destroy innocent lives in the pursuit of illusory goals - that's something you don't need a tin-foil hat to believe.
However, our findings suggest that ultimately the search for uniformity is likely to be an illusory policy goal.
Despite the appeal of calls to tackle 'unwarranted variation' in access to low priority treatments by ensuring uniformity of local guidelines and policies, our findings suggest that ultimately, given the contingent nature of practice, this is likely to remain an illusory policy goal.
The aim of the move away from Spinoza is to avoid the sense of a world complete in itself which would render freedom illusory because freedom's goal would already be determined as the goal of the totality.
Although several billion dollars have already been invested in advanced hardware, the goals seem illusory, and public support seems thin.
Earlier this year, some treaty opponents tried to halt the financial aid, saying the ban's goals were illusory or contrary to American interests.
Today, education is geared towards assessment — towards preparing students for some illusory, state-driven, assessment-driven goals, which may have no relevance in the end to giving them the skills and preparation they need to thrive outside of higher education.
None of these approaches has eradicated terrorism, a goal that is arguably illusory.
