Sentence examples for illusory on from inspiring English sources

An apparently effective treatment window of pulsed ultrasound, 0·16 0·50 W/cm2 (SATA), proved illusory on closer scrutiny.

Rupert Murdoch's power may be exaggerated, particularly in an age when newspapers sales are falling, but whether it is illusory on not, all that matters is that politicians continue to believe it is real.

After belatedly receiving the prime minister's formal letter requesting a three-month extension of article 50, and taking a late afternoon phone call with her, the European council president admitted that success appeared "frail, even illusory" on the eve of Thursday's summit.

Not the mostly illusory ones that exist on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, but those that involve physical meetings.

The language in Book 10 brings Book 9's equation of base pleasures with illusory ones into its attack on art.

Borrowing some useful terminology from the public health literature, Meyer weighs instances of "urban penalty" against those of "urban advantage". He finds that many supposed urban environmental penalties are illusory, based on commonsense preconceptions and not on solid evidence.

One candid Republican consultant says that the massive Carter and Dukakis summer leads were illusory, based on large generic Democratic leads.

A ruling of that kind would, as a practical matter, render § 271 an illusory check on unilateral board power at most public companies.

A good portion of the budget's spending reduction is illusory -- based on the phony assumption that Iraq and Afghanistan war outlays would have continued at similar levels in perpetuity.

He urged the city to correct its "illusory reliance on unavailable state resources" or risk a takeover of its treasury by the state oversight panel, the Financial Control Board.

This design allowed us to directly compare the amount of illusory displacement on trials matched for angular disparity, but differing in biomechanical constraints.