In the face of endless statistics showing the rapid decline of whatever illusory semblance of progress blacks imagined, such signs of progress have almost evaporated in less than a decade.
As is often the case in magic realism, Don Victor's progress is illusory.
And third, black shareholders, particularly if they are unions' investment arms, should foster calmer labour relations.Yet much of the progress is illusory.
"It is very likely that some of the state's progress was illusory," said Daniel Koretz, the Harvard testing expert who led the research.
Until there are more Palestinian human rights organizations detailing abuses committed against both their own people and Israelis, any progress will be illusory.
More leave primary school having done well in tests of reading, writing and arithmetic; more get top grades in national exams at ages 16 and 18. Nay-sayers, though, think this progress overstated, even illusory.
Progress is not only illusory but impractical.
At the least, the board's report raises the question of whether reports of past progress at the site were illusory.
In the early stages of the campaign, the focus was more on the defects of the current United Progressive Alliance government and the supposed material progress of Gujarat under Modi, however illusory such progress may have been for most of its citizens.
The John Terry case, like that of Luis Suárez last year, has led many to wonder whether football's progress in tackling racism has been illusory.
