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Pledges were given which radiated with mirages, beautiful visions which never fructified but receded further and further as they were supposed to be drawing nearer.
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With distortions of light, and mirages, the most commonplace things can be so changed as to be barely recognisable.
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Surely we have outlived those mirages of greatness that we long pursued during the twilight of empire.
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The actual figures that he says will be saved will be mirages rather than reality.
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There are always uncertainties about future energy supplies, forecasts can often turn out to be mere mirages, and it is seldom difficult to discover with hindsight what things went wrong.
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I would like to join those who are briefly reminding you of a couple of mirages by which you should not allow yourself to be led astray.
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The bad referred to the high salinity of the lake, making it unfit to drink, and spirit meant the mirages often seen across the water.
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The bay is known for the mirages on the horizon during the winter months and for being a spawning ground for the firefly squid.
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The title refers to the haze on the horizon and the lyrics talk about mirages and optical illusions caused by the sun.
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Mountain climbing is like crossing a desert and imagining mirages.
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Mirages show an extra image or images of the miraged object, while looming, towering, stooping, and sinking do not.
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As evidence, he cites a number of anomalous phenomena, including strange mirages of land masses, groups of people, and animals in the skies.
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In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages.
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Occasionally, mirages could be seen above the water.
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Over hot surfaces during warm days, unstable dry air can lead to significant refraction of the light within the air layer, which causes inferior mirages.
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First impressions are less important and photos taken the day before opening a misleading mirage: real life is dirtier, but also truer.
Mirages could have been caused by temperature inversions over several deep valleys in the line of sight.
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Finally, does a post-colonial archaeology lie like a mirage in the future?
The vivid memory of 1980s seems a mirage.
Other examples of mirages include what we think of as water evaporating off roads.
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Beyond the mirages that his unquestionable talent puts on display for us, one catches a glimpse of a dramatic process of consciousness.
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The programme takes an original undistorted image of the animal and calculates its appearance when seen as a mirage due to the curved light rays.
In any case most of the mirage images presented here are significantly larger than either of these sizes.
He found that in 87% of the cases following a superior mirage, the temperature would be higher after 24 hours.
My future is a 2-sided mirage on asphalt highway.
Without transforming the repressive and partisan state institutions, wishing for free and fair elections is like chasing a mirage.
Likewise, self-fulfillment for me requires my responding favorably to my life, not a mirage.
Superior mirages also occur at more moderate latitudes, although in those cases they are weaker and tend to be less smooth and stable.
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Other very minor contributors were birds, light phenomena such as mirages or searchlights, and various miscellany such as flares or kites.
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Here it is interesting to note that the described mirages of vessels could only be seen with the aid of a telescope.
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She concluded that one might prefer to suppose that the dilemma, and the document, are mirages, that his book is a postmodernist literary device.
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Yes, we can model it as dynamical change and claim that the step function is a mirage.
He was sardonic in his youth and the complex images produced by the desire machines bored him; he could not surrender to the mirages.
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If there are several temperature layers, several mirages may mix, perhaps causing double images.
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Given that chemists were unable to isolate these five elements in pure state, however, his definition of elements remained an analytic/philosophical ideal or a mirage beyond their reach.
Figure 2 is something of a mirage.
He also created mirages to lure people into his lair (said to be a hole in the ground or a cellar), making it appear as a splendid estate.
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The most promising direction in which to look for an answer lies in the actual organization of our practices rather than in the mirage of a criterial form of judgement.
Just then another ship was seen in the air, only this one was a steamship, and was bottom-upwards, as the captain had said these mirages generally appeared.
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Since clouds are closely associated with high levels of water vapor, optical mirages due to water vapor are often rendered undetectable by the accompanying opaque cloud.
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There is a real medievalist's mirage.
There have been persistent rumours, like a kind of continuous mirage dangled before the people, of interest rate cuts coming but never quite arriving.
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Please excuse my harsh words, but one can almost talk in terms of a mirage.
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We have to face reality and cannot set sail in an ever-increasing fleet in search of the mirage of stocks that last for ever.
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We know that the 5,000 promised additional officers have proved to be a mirage.
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Many long-term solutions have been offered in the past, but each has vanished as a mirage.
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Of course, that balanced budget approach is now a dream and a mirage.
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In the next few years it will become a nuclear mirage that will never materialise.
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The achievement of stability there has so far remained a mirage.
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We are determined not to mistake a mirage for reality.
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The idea that somehow we can achieve a politically acceptable internal market without considerable social and political protection is a mirage.
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Instead, our people have been bamboozled into believing that a mirage is nearer, more attainable and more desirable.
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A little mirage of the coming glories which were to be the reward of this man if he only betrayed his colleagues.
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Are our democratic principles merely a mirage, an ideal that recedes as fast as we can approach it?
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At the moment, this is much more of a mirage than a realistic plan.
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The mirage has thus gone but the obstacles remain.
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Until that situation is reached, the idea of an internal market in energy is a political mirage.
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However, although the scheme is nothing more than a mirage for consumers, it can present real difficulties for companies and create severe distortions.
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If ever there was a mirage, there it was.
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Until we do so, our defence effort and all our defence plans are based on a mirage.
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The reason for this debate is that the party opposite held out a mirage over 13 years.
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Let me give one example of that mirage.
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Until they are able to tell us, we shall be entitled to take the view that the subidy is a mirage.
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They are like people in an economic desert walking towards a mirage.
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Success is only a mirage for those disadvantaged youngsters, and there are very many of them.
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The "break even at all costs" policy is a foolish mirage.
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There is a crying need for a period of stability: that could prove to be illusory and a mirage.
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If one is amongst the 3.25 million unemployed, the rosy part of the picture is a mirage.
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We do not want a slick, hyped-up public relations mirage.
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However, if it does, we shall see the mirage disappear.
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He has never been deceived by any shining mirage, however realistic it looked.
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They do not believe that peace is indivisible; they still believe in the mirage of safety confined to one little corner of the world.
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Of course, the solution to all of this - real reform of the common agricultural policy - is nothing more than a mirage.
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The figure of £100 million is at best a mirage—it could never be realised.
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He talked about what he described as the mirage of 5,000 additional officers.
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I wonder how much the independence of banks is a mirage.
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Unlike the mirage, we ourselves can create reality, but not painlessly, much less by wishful thinking.
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We all know that it is a mirage.
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They seem to be obsessed by this mirage.
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Even more importantly, it is a mirage because it is incomplete.
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Therefore, the money is a mirage: it does not exist.
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Does he appreciate that we recognise, in the run-up to a general election, that he is trying to create a mirage of optimism?
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She is rather like a person who has wandered into a desert, sees a mirage in the distance and rushes helter-skelter for it.
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I hope that he will not whittle away at the figure and cause that shareholding to vanish like a mirage.
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What has become of all that vain mirage?
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Again and again the telescope had beguiled its untrained users with mirages and deceptions.
The orca has a behaviour pattern that lends itself to excellent merman mirages.
There can be mirages, dreams, and hallucinations in which we may think water is present when it is not.
When this inversion is low (and strong) enough, it causes mirages of the hafgerdingar type.
Such mirages, quite common in the polar regions, can produce an appearance fully consistent with the original description, as illustrated by several photographs and a computer simulation.
Even without the distortion of mirages, men on board searching ships were often deceived by objects that sprang into view through their telescopes and inflamed their imaginations.
The answer is that this miracle is largely a mirage.
A simpler and more consistent theory is developed here: that the hafgerdingar are an optical phenomenon, specifically, a superior mirage.
A mirage of this type is seen when a strong, well-defined temperature inversion surrounds the observer.
The tantalizing mirage of the bourgeois home and the values it stands for thus forms the basis for the plot of the play.
Even the peril to seafarers has been corroborated, in the sense that such a mirage is frequently followed by a storm.
A temporary comfort, a mirage in his hour of need, it too eventually breaks down into incoherent speech.
The effect in question is the superior mirage.
The hafgerdingar have already been identified as a mirage in a previous paper.
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