That officials in Arizona believe that by closing down these programs and thus insulting those who have enrolled in them they will not increase a sense of oppression by Latinos and other ethnic groups is as illusory as the words on a sign a colleague of mine hung in his office many years ago: "The flogging will stop when morale improves".
Viewers don masks with built-in red-and-blue glasses, which reveal four-letter words in illusory relief — the dirty classics plus political tags ("BUSH," "IRAQ") and assorted downbeats ("EVIL," "GRIM").
Once he has made the point that faith in words is illusory, that there can be no such thing as eternal truth or a stable constitutional order rooted in language, he is left trying to explain why he is so hostile to both types of literalists.
But former employees, including three who were willing to be identified, suggest that Energy Services used shoddy accounting practices to create "illusory earnings," in the words of Jeff Gray, who joined Enron in 2000 and worked at the division for most of 2001.
In other words, the claims are illusory, and represent illusory supply and illusory demand that set the illusory price of gold in illusory dollars.
signatures & agreements illusory... ...... And, "One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world".
signatures & agreements illusory... .. And, "One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world".
The words "real" and "illusory" become meaningless if one stays strictly within the cranium.
The disarmament, which some in the Labour party craved, proved illusory as - in Churchill's words again - an iron curtain descended across Europe, and the cold war began.
The idol "never deserves to be denounced as illusory since, by definition [that is, by the word's etymology], it is seen.
