Sentence examples for national illusion from inspiring English sources

To them, the national illusion that you can have electricity, clean air, a stable climate and independence from foreign oil without paying a steep price is ludicrous.

In 1998 and 1999, described by Lisbon economists as the "nirvana years", plummeting interest rates, low inflation and strong economic growth helped create a national illusion that Portugal was hurtling towards a level of prosperity that would soon equal that of its rich European peers.

It is unpleasant to be told that our planes are few and obsolete, our ground equipment comic by Axis standards, our fleet inadequate for the defence of even a single sea, but this knowledge isn't entirely unexpected; it strikes at the roots of no deep national illusion.

Facing the unprecedented danger of nuclear war, the world community might finally be ready to dispense with this national illusion.

It is a phrase that takes into account one of our great national illusions, the feeling that anything manufactured is designed for our convenience.

Indeed, these events have disrupted our illusion of national safety.

As long as Brazil remain in the World Cup that illusion of national unity remains too.

These measures are central to changing the psychological dynamic of the conflict and sociopolitical environment between them by mitigating the problem of mutual distrust, national security, and the illusion that either can rule over all of mandated Palestine.