Sentence examples for illusory peace from inspiring English sources

That requires an illusory peace first, however.

That illusory peace has achieved little except to dampen people's appetite for struggle.

Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, is appeasing hawks in Israel's military establishment, the settlement movement and the Knesset itself - even as he extends what increasingly looks like an illusory hand of peace to Palestinians.

But Richard's peace was illusory.

Danish hopes for foreign assistance proved illusory, and by the Peace of Vienna (October 30) the duchies became the joint possession of Prussia and Austria.

Peace was illusory, they said; the hardline Islamists at the core of Bashir's regime had no intention of sharing either power or wealth.

Until the Palestinian politicians and population accept Israel's right to exist, pursuit of the "peace process" is illusory.

Although the two major powers have orchestrated a deal to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons, there is still much bickering about terms of a prospective peace process that appears illusory in Damascus.

In Mr. Katz's view, peace with the Arabs was illusory; in his view, Judea and Samaria, the biblical names for much of the West Bank, should be annexed as part of the "land of Israel," and pressure from Washington could be ignored.

In May, Churchill was appointed temporary rank of Brigadier-General of Foot, but hopes of promised action on the Continent proved illusory as the warring factions sued for peace and signed the Treaty of Nijmegen.

Without a political settlement to mediate Iraq's sectarian, regional, and tribal divides, any peace brought by military intervention would be illusory at best, and Iraq will likely descend into civil conflict once again as soon as intervention comes to an end.