Sentence examples for illusory prosperity from inspiring English sources
Just like the Philippines' illusory prosperity in the 1950s, there is a tremendous amount of shallowness to the economic growth of recent years.
Argentina today formally abandoned a decade-long policy of linking its peso to the American dollar at a value of one to one, an arrangement that brought an initial, illusory burst of prosperity but departs with the country bankrupt and on the brink of political chaos.
We can no longer afford to expend our national prosperity in pursuit of an illusory promise of security that is mostly defined in terms of defense that echo from our 20th Century past.
The previous prosperity under Labour now looks somewhat illusory.
Attacks on disgraced ex-RBS boss Sir Fred Goodwin's home last month over the size of his pension pot are being echoed in a wave of "bossnappings" and riots across the world, as workers discover that much of the prosperity of the past few years has been illusory.
In 2007, it was becoming increasingly clear that America's prosperity was a house of cards, built up on easy credit and something called mortgage-backed securities, illusory dollars that flowed down to Wall Street, in the crooked heart of that long-envied New York City.
Quick solutions are illusory.
The casualness is illusory.
This distinction is illusory.
Civilizations are illusory.
