Sentences with phrase «under the illusion of»

Don't get me wrong: I'm still plenty cynical about politics and I'm under no illusions of perfection, there are still gaps.

We are under the illusion of huge control, certainty and solidity.

I am under no illusions of absolute one sidedness and have met some wonderful Christians in my time who are living not as the «religion» would have it, but based on their personal relationship with Christ.

We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self; an accretion of sensory experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody.

We're under no illusions of how tough it's going to be but if there's ever a game you'd want to play as a rugby player it would be next week.»

I'm under no illusions of grandeur that I'm a step away from the big time.

However, after Bells, where only rookie Wade Carmichael managed to get past Round 3, all the rookies will now be under no illusion of just how big the step up from the WSL Qualifying Series (QS) to the CT really is.

While it might be ideal and efficient to have a single national MLS ® database, I'm under no illusions of this happening during my life in organized real estate.

Except I've never been under the illusion of have a bathroom to myself and I gave up baths about 9 years ago!

Not exact matches

«I wasn't under any illusions,» says Livestrong's IT administrator, Willy Snell, a 10 - year veteran of the foundation.

They'll spin a tale of hardship (with a financial element) that evokes sympathy from the victim, and under the «illusion of being in love» the victim will attempt to help with their own money.

One possibility, he said, is that frequent traders laboring under the «illusion of control» believe that they can respond easily to information and events during the day but can't do so as easily after hours, when there are far fewer market participants and less money, or «liquidity,» involved in trading.

The agency had become known for employing hundreds of Russians to post pro-Kremlin propaganda online under fake identities, including on Twitter, in order to create the illusion of a massive army of supporters; it has often been called a «troll farm.»

A version of this article appears in print on January 13, 2013, on Page BU1 of the New York edition with the headline: Over 50, and Under No Illusions.

Last Thursday, the Office of Financial Research (OFR), part of the Federal boondoggle created under the Dodd - Frank financial reform legislation in 2010 to foster the illusion that the government was reining in risk on Wall Street, released a new study showing almost unfathomable levels of systemic and interconnected risk among the too - big - to - fail banks that cratered the U.S. financial system in 2008 and has left our economy still struggling to right itself.

Here is someone who has seemingly lives a life of adultery, abortion, contraception and lives under the illusion that because she respects others, be good to others etc, she is Christian.Even atheist are respectful to others and help them.

But I doubt that any of them are under the illusion that they could have come anywhere close to Witten in ability, no matter how hard they had worked or young they had started.

While recognizing the need for democratic participation in public affairs, they were under no illusions that they were creating an unqualified democracy and had no difficulty retaining nondemocratic institutions as integral components of the larger political framework.

South Pole, Antarctica (CNN)- Modern men and women often live under the illusion that they are in control of their lives.

Christians should not operate under the illusion that «our» heroes are not also capable of being monsters.

But his declaration that history is a moral order under the rule of God is fundamental, and provided the starting - point for the whole prophetic movement — and indeed for any understanding of history and experience which does not reduce them to illusion.

Some Christians are under the false illusion that we will all just get along if we somehow ignore the issue of race.

I am under no illusion as to the adequacy of the result.

These shortcuts are detectable by a variety of optical illusions and deficits produced under testing.

As it strips political leaders and activists of vanity and illusion, it should also free them to wield power under God and in the service of God's creatures.

It sets the soul under a pressure which still allows the illusion of autonomy.

Democratic reformers have been under no illusions that the common man possesses any special wisdom which is superior to that of the exceptional man.

But just because the older person is under illusion, he has also an entirely onesided conception of what illusion is, thinking that it is only the illusion of hope.

At the same time, although democracy presupposed a basic rationality on the part of the citizens, few Greeks were under the illusion that men acted according to principles of reason alone.

Yet, having led churches in other parts of the world, Vines is under no illusion about why such growth occurs in the USA: «If you go to the South, everyone goes to church.

Yet when the mind is not confused by utopian illusions it is not difficult to recognize genuine achievements of justice and to feel under obligation to defend them against the threats of tyranny and the negation of justice.

The illusion of the conviction of the Holy Spirit... which is really an emotional response to something being very wrong and the turmoil experienced when these feelings contradict all you've been taught by the church and its Pastor, who has set him / herself up as the supreme anointed authority under God and is due utmost and unquestionable respect.

This is why a new kind of illusion accompanies it, no longer a theoretical illusion but a practical one, that of a subtle hedonism, which would reintroduce an interest into morality under the pretext of happiness.

Such a man is living under an illusion because he is out of touch with «things as they are» in human existence.

This notion of freedom from the past does not in my opinion lack a qualitative reference, for it is concerned with my own particular past, with what I have made of my self under the illusion that self - hood is something to be achieved by my own efforts.

Edward O. Wilson, for example, lives under this illusion in his recent article, «The Biological Basis of Morality» (BBM 53 - 70).

As i said before, I am under no illusion that we can» convert» each other to our own position, so I'm happy to state what I hold to, passingly offer some arguments, and be more giddish the rest of the time.

Under the philosophy of development built on the illusion that change and growth are the same as progress and that any move, especially if it goes in the direction of control and exploitation of nature is to be desired, we have set up the Euro - American culture as the mark of development, and the acceptable level of human consumption.

We should, therefore, not be under the illusion that when anatomically modern human beings emerged 100,000 or so years ago, after millions of years of evolutionary change, they ceased to be influenced significantly by their evolutionary past.

Despite the catastrophes of this century and man's total failure to understand himself and deal with himself, people still labor under the illusion that a theory of man exists.

Mark offered the empty tomb as a symbol of the faith fact, that when our dreams die, when the life of faith collapses under the weight of illusion, Christ is not consigned to the tomb, nor does the whole structure of faith collapse.

Whilst I am in optimistic mood, I suppose I should be grateful that he has not yet got the hang of spitting out the various lurid - coloured medicines I coax down his throat from time to time and that he is still labouring under the illusion that I am some minor deity with the power to make all things right.

Under the rule of bad, crafty, proud, and idolatrous kings (Joash, Jeroboam, Menahem), Israel will for a period recover its glory, supremacy, and political liberty, and will live in the illusion of its own power and reconstituted glory until the final collapse and deportation.

Surely it is only to the dumbfounded, to the clueless, to the overwhelmed, to those who are under no illusion that they have ever known quite what to do because of Jesus and don't pretend it could ever be otherwise — to those alone that this crafter of Trojan horses says, «Well done, good and faithful servant.»

The reason I addressed the problem to Hartshorne initially is that, from one end of his thought to the other, he has made strong claims in behalf of his use, presumably in contrast to that of some other speculative philosophers, of modern formal logic, and I wanted to assure myself that he was under no illusion concerning the status accorded formal logic by many logicians and the force of the attempts to have, in Ernest Nagel's expression, «logic without ontology.»

Mr O'Brien, who is also chairman of the Australian Food and Grocery Council, said he is under no illusion about the tough road ahead in the volatile world of aquaculture.

The presence of easy recipes gives me a sense of security, and creates an illusion that I have everything under control And nothing can be easier than a salad like this one.

No one is under any illusion that winning the Community Shield will lay the marker for the rest of the season.

Of course we can not be certain that he would have been able to build his strength up had he stayed in North - London this term, and Wenger is under no illusion that his temporary move has helped him, but cant help thinking he could have done with him available for Arsenal right now.

This time he believes Arsenal are living under a certain illusion of their team being great again.