Can they deliver?

That may be wishful thinking.

He knows other and easier ways of getting what he desires.

That may still prove to be wishful thinking.

But even that may be wishful thinking.

Was this wishful thinking or self fulfilling prophecy?

The FSLN's partisan voters have achieved what they wanted a party that governs in times of peace.

Wishful thinking transformed economic gains into visions of easy wealth.

Some governments practice an even more direct method of suborning favorable coverage.

By whispering Ericsson into Reinfeldt s ear, it seems, Persson achieved the desired result.

The gardener doesn't conquer his or her plants, but studies them to produce the garden that is desired.

We muddled reform on our own.

Hold down the Tab key to open the weapon wheel, then move your mouse in the direction of the weapon you want.

Even Marx knew that the iron laws of economics could not be overcome by wishful thinking.

But Europe indeed, civilization won t be kept safe by wishful thinking.

Knowledge in itself is not an end, but a means to an end to live a full and humane life.

Thus, areas dedicated to energy production, particularly biofuel, may not reach the level that societies would wish.

Some of this, no doubt, is wishful thinking on the part of economically unsophisticated people.

Or start at the bottom, and say what outcomes do we want, and then design a soundscape to have a desired effect.

What should these be? We know from experience that neither political pressures nor economic sanctions hurt Saddam enough.

We know from experience that neither political pressures nor economic sanctions hurt Saddam enough.

This business plan of yours seems almost too optimistic. All I can say is I hope it's more than just wishful thinking.

But in order to be sure of the reliability of this function, the purchaser must be convinced of the long term valuation of the object of desire.

On the contrary, wishful thinking led experts to adduce discontinuation symptoms as evidence of the effectiveness of vital remedies. Later, suicides became routinely described as non accidental overdoses, and the broad spectrum term emotional lability came into vogue, despite its inability to distinguish between a drug induced suicide attempt and an outburst of tears.

The conundrum of global reform is that the proposals that go far enough, such as establishing a global financial regulator, are wildly unrealistic, while those that are realistic, such as reform of the IMF, fall far short of what is needed.

All those involved know that, in the end, only the borders of June 1967 including Jerusalem and a negotiated, smaller territorial exchange can be acceptable to both sides, however painful. Everything else is evil wishful thinking for which more innocents will continue losing their lives.

Everything else is evil wishful thinking for which more innocents will continue losing their lives.

His Facebook page has more than one million followers, most of them gathered over the last three years. The only apparent major information hub focusing on the current protest is the Facebook page of America based Oromo activist Jawar Mohammed. Zecharias Zelalem ( ZekuZelalem) August 23, 2017

There is huge room to maneuver between the extremes of targeting a specific level of the real exchange rate and disowning any interest in the real exchange rate.

a really cool idea ) I hope that the auction will lead to the planned effect I wonder, however, if it would not be better to organise a workshop seminar of some kind for a larger audience.

The US neocons, with their wishful thinking, grossly underestimated the scale of the task at hand unlike the revolutionaries in Iran, who quickly moved in to reap what the US had sowed.

The often invoked investment gap is mostly a result of wishful thinking, and the remaining barriers to investment have little to do with a lack of financing.

The idea that the Chinese regime would quickly reform the country into an open, moderate, and benevolent giant was either a fraud, a gigantic misperception, or wishful thinking.

The threat of retaliation that underpins its strategic effectiveness remains implicit and hypothetical. However, when deterrence becomes indistinguishable from collective punishment barred under international law by Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention it is far less likely to achieve its intended result.

However, when deterrence becomes indistinguishable from collective punishment barred under international law by Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention it is far less likely to achieve its intended result.

However, more than twenty national and international reports from around the world by scientific bodies governing dietary recommendations set similar or lower targets for sugar intake.

Such wishful thinking is predicated on the notion that conflict between Russia and the West would once again come to define the entire international system, thereby returning Russia to its former superpower status.

However, the news could not get much importance and was soon ignored by the Pakistani media as well, although Mr. Hussain even reached out to the President of Pakistan to take notice of the issue.

Of course, in societies that are basically in good shape, both psychologically and materially, such moral fables such wishful thinking, really rarely do much harm and can often do considerable good. Think of the current multiculturalist fables that we in the West have concocted for ourselves in order to cope with the dilemmas and challenges of mass immigration from the non European world.

Of course, in societies that are basically in good shape, both psychologically and materially, such moral fables such wishful thinking, really rarely do much harm and can often do considerable good.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy s insistence that a referendum should be held on Turkey s admission suggests that years of painful adjustment to EU norms will never produce the payoff of membership.

In fact, descriptions of some third arrow projects seem to be based on little more than wishful thinking, with new technology or knowhow apparently expected simply to fall into Japan s lap.

To believe that such a vision can work for Russia, Ukraine, and Europe is not wishful thinking, but rests on the successful experience of France and Germany in promoting amity.

Until the dust settles on the new Middle East, the old roadmaps seem dated, and conventional wisdom holds that progress toward a peace agreement in the face of regional upheaval is wishful thinking.