illusionary


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marked by or producing illusion

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of 221 MPs, to discuss the "illusionary" contracts with the Electricity Minister, along with the report of the Parliament's Security & Defense committee about the escape of prisoners from Hilla Prison," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The author takes the reader on a tour of the Beatles musical catalogue, almost song-by-song, simultaneously setting the music in the context of the career and lives of the Liverpool foursome and the wider cultural milieu, all while advancing the central conceit of the book, which is that the Beatles' music advanced utopian hope that as often as not turned out to be fleeting and illusionary.
Al-Abbasi was sacked two days ago after he gave a statement to newspapers in which he said that there are 300 national illusionary security companies with licenses and permits to operate but are not working.
YOU print, at times, amusing letters and this one should take the biscuit or at least win a flight on one of Ryanair's illusionary cheap flights.
Eboue had the ball in the net after 13 minutes at White Hart Lane but Dean called play back for a foul on Jonathan Woodgate, which Wenger described as "illusionary".
But in truth, much of the freedom schools are supposed to be enjoying is illusionary. The national curriculum still plays a major part in dictating what they must teach.
In Mario Sala's images, the window, painting's old paradigm, opens onto doors, which close off passages to illusionary space at the same time as they evoke it.
E-commerce has proved to be an illusionary nemesis, but taxes, as the proverb says, are a sure thing.
again.Pearls Cacherel and Moschino sent models down the catwalk in oversized pearl jewellery, either as illusionary details on jumpers, Trompe L'Oeil style, or as chokers with ribbons tied to them.
Memory and truth, both seemingly unreliable, play central and illusionary roles in this somber short novel, which transmutes the desire to remember into a record of existences.
In his sophomore year, Harris joined a group called the Scanner Boys who were "poppers"; according to Harris, popping is "internal pantomime--to go to another space and be invoked by a spirit." By using stop-start, freeze-frame, or slow-motion gestures, poppers "create monsters and all kinds of illusionary beings.
With the Orange Order in control of a large section of the working class, however, unity was illusionary and fleeting at best.
For many students, this was the first time they had thought about real space versus illusionary space.
Otherwise, all his development schemes will be built over the weak foundation based on the quick sands of illogical thinking and illusionary concepts that have taken deep roots into the minds of the masses over hundreds of years.
Alluding clearly to Hasan Nasrullah's fiery speeches, Machnouk added that while we got accustomed to talk about illusionary victories, the real victorious must be Lebanese unity rather than exhibitionistic muscle-flexing drawing on external backing.