Sentence examples for imaginary state from inspiring English sources

For we are not consumers who buy our security and we are not living in Hobbes's imaginary state of terror.

For the next month, Anderson's fictional establishment has relocated from the imaginary state of Zubrowka to central London (I'm not supposed to tell you exactly where).

The assailants are anonymous, but seem to be working for Berylia's bitter rival and neighbour, Crimsonia, an imaginary state that closely resembles Vladimir Putin's Russia.

Those numbers suggest that by this weekend there will be more people living in the imaginary state of Los Santos than in the real city on which it was modelled.

And yet if you put aside the Palestinians' imaginary state, hardly any of the 21 actual states that belong to the Arab League can plausibly claim to be a genuine democracy.

Seems to me that "nothing," for all its simplicity and symmetry and lack of arbitrariness, is nonetheless an entirely imaginary state, or condition, and we can say with confidence that it has never existed.

Female creativity exists between these imaginary states.

It is no use escaping, dreaming about imaginary states.

But such democratic assemblies are rare: many imaginary states are the creations of closet despots nostalgic for the Roman Empire and various Balkan fiefdoms.

All are so-called micronations, a catch-all term that encompasses the many imaginary states, model nations and "counter countries" that exist only in the minds of their creators -- and on the Web.

Horizontal lines represent states, with imaginary states in dashed lines.