But the electorate did not succumb to wishful thinking.

But the European debt crisis will not disappear into thin air by virtue of wishful thinking.

It was wishful thinking, but it permeated the political and social climate.

For those who generally like lower taxes, of course, this, too, is wishful thinking.

Alas, this view is based more on wishful thinking than on reality.

Unfortunately, everything suggests that this was an illusion based on wishful thinking.

But this reading is largely wishful thinking by those who support secession.

The European Union cannot afford to engage in wishful thinking when it comes to Morsi s ambitions and the Muslim Brotherhood s agenda.

Or, less likely, he could embrace some megalomaniacal and over reaching vision of government intervention, as others have tried.

In fact, the financial statements of mega banks are impenetrable works of fiction or wishful thinking.

Was this wishful thinking or self fulfilling prophecy? We will never know.

But any reasonable analysis of the current PRI does not support that prediction, and reveals it to be based on little more than wishful thinking.

In the present day, this stone is the starting point for a walk as part of the annual Aksu festival and it considered a wishing stone for fertility and health.

In such circumstances, more than wishful thinking can come into play we might have few incentives to think hard at all.

And after begging and pleading for Christmas, I got a second hand video camera, and I instantly started making my own animations on my own, and all throughout high school I made my own animations.

Romney had no miracle cure, either, but he attempted to tap into voters wishful thinking bias, by promising to reduce the size of the government and cut marginal tax rates.

They only want that you should relent , so that they may come to terms .

They wish that in some way you may yield , so they too might soften their stand .

They wish that thou shouldst compromise , then they would compromise .

Fain would they that thou shouldst be pliant , so that they will be pliant .

They wish that you should compromise ( in religion out of courtesy ) with them , so they ( too ) would compromise with you .

They would like you to compromise , so they would compromise .

they would wish you to be pliant so that they too may be pliant .

Who would have had thee compromise , that they may compromise .

who are eager that you should be flexible , so that they too may be flexible towards you .

they wish you would compromise , then , they would compromise .

They wish that you would soften in your position , so they would soften toward you .

They would like you to relent to them so that they could also relent towards you .

They wish that you should be pliant so they ( too ) would be pliant .

They want you to make concessions to them and then they will reciprocate .

Their desire is that thou shouldst be pliant so would they be pliant .

Two panels of technical experts are the ones to judge trends in copper prices and output, respectively, insulated from the political processes that can otherwise succumb to wishful thinking.

Pretending that banks that passed modest stress tests can be kept open indefinitely with little collateral damage is wishful and dangerous thinking.

This might appear excessively hopeful, yet in Afghanistan, a country akin to Iraq in many ways, there are groups working towards this goal.

In such a Tower of Babel, German Chancellor Angela Merkel s call for a political union to save the euro is wishful thinking, even for the staunchest European official.

Who could have said with certainty that the economic upturn announced by Hollande was real rather than aspirational? Beyond his message s wishful thinking, the public s reaction to the messenger was a mixture of disbelief and indifference.

After 42 years of dictatorship, Libya, like Iraq in 2003 after the fall of Saddam Hussein, needs more than wishful thinking to become a vibrant democracy.

Most of the popular attention that the superstar cities theory has received merely reflects the psychology of the housing boom that we have been seeing, as well as a wishful thinking bias.

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.

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.

But does such a calculus make sense, or is it simply wishful thinking, a reassuring and comfortable illusion designed to make French leaders feel good, when in fact they are dealing with Russia on purely commercial grounds?

If you should see them when they are stood before the Fire , they will say Ah would that we were sent back ( to the world ) ! We shall not deny the signs of our Lord , and be among those who believe .

And if you see them when they will be placed above hell , they will say , Alas , if only we might be sent back and not deny the signs of our Lord , and become Muslims !

If thou couldst see when they are stationed before the Fire , and they say , ' Would that we might be returned , and then not cry lies to the signs of our Lord , but that we might be among the believers ! '

And couldst thou see what time they shall be held over the Fire , and then they will say would that we were sent back and now we shall not belie the signs of our Lord and we shall be of the believers .