Thus, as the govt. completed its new town centers in E. Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, and a few smaller cities over the last 5 years, the impression was conveyed that this represented proof of the superiority of the Communist system.
"It smacks of elitism, it smacks of discrimination, it just really put into focus what people have thought for years, the impression that the state board of ed is a bunch of people sitting around with teacups and crumpets making decisions about schoolchildren in New Jersey without any regard for what the realities are".
No one production creates lasting acclaim for any arts organization and Follies did not change the history of the Kennedy Center, but one or two major events a year, over a course of years, creates the impression of an interesting, vibrant arts organization.
Educated at Seaford College, he lived for several years under the impression that his mother was dead.
One middle-aged resident has wandered around the main square for several years under the impression that he is the 9.15 bus to Florence.
But an unchecked drop of 10 percent or more might prove entirely discouraging to the millions of owners just hanging on, especially those who bought in the last few years under the impression that a turnaround had already begun.
Chris Mao, founder and director of Chambers Fine Art, a Chelsea gallery, who said he had known Mr. Johns well for several years, had the impression that his assistants were few in number.
Laos, which is much smaller and weaker, has in recent years given the impression of being overrun by Chinese, something that many cadres deemed preferable to being pushed around by Vietnam.
The recent BBC 2 series Mixed highlighted the deportation in the mid-20th century of many Chinese men whose English wives were never informed, and lived for many years under the impression that their husbands had abandoned them.
Most of its youngest directors, judging youth not by calendar years but by vigor, inventiveness, and mercurial energy, are over sixty; most of those who have come along in recent years convey the impression of dutifully applying lessons learned and awaiting the approval of critics and audiences for whom such cautious craft is acclaimed as a virtue.
"The ANC-led government have over the years given the impression that only its veterans freed South Africa.
