Without housing as the base, the mayor's plan to reduce family homelessness will be illusory.
There is the real possibility that this road to reform will be illusory, stacked with obstacles, detours, dead ends and quick exits.
Until there are more Palestinian human rights organizations detailing abuses committed against both their own people and Israelis, any progress will be illusory.
But the relief will be illusory: when the rate cap ends in two years' time, consumers may face unpaid bills worth tens of millions of dollars.
Thanks to Human-Robot Interaction research, whatever social skills we program into robots in the future will be illusory and recursive: not intelligence, but human ingenuity put to use to exploit human credulity.
At the other end of the spectrum, rappers themselves are often coy about calling each other out, because they are well aware that any claims they try to make to the throne will be illusory and egotistical, and thus by doing so, they risk receiving backlash from the rest of the hip-hop community.
The economic result - as with the reduction in social security contributions, which has failed to end the imbalance in production costs between Asia and Europe - will be illusory.
So Lula, a pragmatic former trade-union leader, is entering his penultimate year in office in a position in which he ought to be able to do almost anything.Yet this apparent omnipotence is illusory, not least because it will be brief: by early 2010 the president will start to be overshadowed by the campaign to elect his successor.
While Argument A was an illusory straw-man, groups B & C will be real.
Upward social mobility also will be more illusory in the Smart Machine Age.
