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Examples of pipe dream


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Perhaps it would simply prove that clarifying the law was a pipedream.
This may seem a pipedream, but pipe dreams sometimes come true.
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I am sure that he and everyone else will agree that at present that must be a pipedream.
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So far, many governments have found this to be a pipedream.
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She got it wrong when she reported me as saying that my amendment was radical and a pipedream.
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It is a mere pipedream for them.
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The challenge that we face is how to translate that pipedream into reality.
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That is not a pipedream; it is a realistic and achievable aim.
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The consultation document of 1976 referred to this as a pipedream.
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It is not a pipedream; it is realistic and also modern.
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Something so often denounced as a pipedream, as an illusion, is now becoming reality.
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Totally banning the nuclear market at this time is a fantasy for the rich and a theoretical pipedream about man's future!
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Shutting ourselves off from the international market today is a mere pipedream: it is not only impossible but it would also be damaging.
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Even to talk about it was a pipedream, as was the possibility of a pension scheme.
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There was a time when this looked like an empty pipedream.
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However, that is rather a pipedream when we consider the amount of money required for the community care to enable that to happen.
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Their latest policy review is a sham and a pipedream of the worst sort.
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I was developing the argument that the work-home balance is still a pipedream.
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We know also that ratification on an international treaty level would be very much a pipedream.
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It is all too easy to indulge in a pipedream and reduce expenditure as and when one can.
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I should have liked to be in that position, but that is a pipedream and an "if" of history.
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It is important that this must not be a pipedream and that the phrases come to fruition in practice.
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That may be a worthy aim, but the target date increasingly seems like a pipedream.
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The idea of hard-working, talented disabled people earning a high living standard is a pipedream under existing government policies.
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I do not want to say that this is a pipedream; although it certainly is a pipedream at the moment.
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I certainly do not regard it as a pipedream.
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Unless proper resources are made available, wardening will be yet another pipedream.
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Lastly, this defence policy is nothing but a pipedream because we cannot establish a defence policy without a common foreign policy.
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Is this pipedream not based on a huge overestimation of the human race?
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Ten years ago that was just a pipedream.
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It is not an empty pipedream now.
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It is a pipedream to think that it will be.
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That was a pipedream, and it has vanished.
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It is a pipedream to imagine that it will disappear through any conventional method.
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I fear that that is a pipedream.
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It can be just a plan or a pipedream, as someone said it may be.
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It may be suggested that that is a pipedream, but it is not.
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Until we get the economy right, solving this deep and fundamental problem is a pipedream.
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Today, unilateralism, including that of the most prosperous and powerful countries, as we have already witnessed, is nothing but a pipedream.
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The response of the industries concerned has shown me that equal treatment of all beverage categories is no mere pipedream.
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At the moment that is still only a pipedream, but it is something we should think about when the time comes.
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It is more like a pipedream than a pipeline.
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After all, they are reality and not a mere pipedream any more.
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It is—to use a perhaps unhappy phrase—no more than a nationalist pipedream.
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It was, however, all too soon before this seemingly bright prospect was seen to be little more than a pipedream.
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Systematic and thorough consultation as part of the legislative process is not a pipedream.
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For all but the richest in society, that is nothing more than a pipedream.
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It is just a pipedream to most people.
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It was his famous pipedream speech, and he dreamed the dream of saving £700 million in defence costs.
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Thirdly, it is a pipedream to imagine there can be any expansion of an airport's capacity without thorough involvement of and cooperation with regional and local administrations.
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That was a pipedream.
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This is no pipedream.
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It was a pipedream.
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Many of us believe that if things swing too far in favour of streamlining public finances, the goal of reducing poverty risks becoming a pipedream.
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That is not a pipedream.
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That is a pipedream.
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None of this is a pipedream.
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There are many who said that this process was an impossibility, and perhaps 30 years ago most of us would have thought it to be a pipedream.
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I certainly have not used, and would not use, the phrase that the idea of a major transfer from road to rail freight is a pipedream.
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Instead of abolishing directives, opening up the market for services and labour and cutting taxes, we are currying favour with the citizens with a pipedream of short-term social gain.
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This is a pipedream.
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That is now a pipedream.
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In the 1970s, devolution—even administrative devolution—was a pipedream, and to think about devolution of policing powers and criminal justice was a mild form of insanity.
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Frankly, that is a pipedream.
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I think there is more in that case than is admitted by the other side, who say that biological control is merely a biologist's pipedream.
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Indeed, that is not a pipedream.
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This purely a pipedream.
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It is for all these reasons that peak-periord pricing remains a pipedream in the minds of many.
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At this point, advancement was a pipedream with survival in the tougher division becoming a priority.
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The fantastic pipedream that had become his greatest joy had also led to his persecution.
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It is not a cop fantasy, newspaperman's pipedream or movie myth.
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Most photographers still regarded the whole idea of color photography as a pipedream, something only madmen and swindlers would claim to have accomplished.
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At the time, the idea seemed like a pipedream with the introduction of the airplane being relatively new.
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It was more of a pipedream.
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However, in this post-modern age, all talk of anything like a common human nature was considered to be foolish, if not a pipedream, to say the least.
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Well, so much for extreme naivety and pipe dreams.
This debate should not just be based on ideology and pipe dreams, however, but on reality: how to deal with reality; the diverse realities.
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