With each hour that passes in 2013, this becomes more and more of a pipe-dream.
At the moment, to be trusted more than Labour on health and education is a pipe-dream.
This is a pipe-dream, if only because NATO's membership includes such non-EU countries as Canada, Norway and Turkey.
Mr Robertson and his crew came to believe a pipe-dream: the preservation of their independence with the chance to dip into Dresdner's deep pockets whenever they needed to.
She flattered them, asked about their harmless projects a Union of Punjabi Landowners, a pipe-dream society for tort reform and so wielded them into a circle, with herself at the center.
But they oppose nuclear power, a position that puts them at odds with a fair number of environmentalists who have concluded, reluctantly, that a low-carbon future without nuclear energy is a pipe-dream.
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It is a bit discouraging to me that even in a country where the flagship conservative publication is vocally in support of ending the war on drugs, the fact remains that it is politically a pipe-dream at this point.
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Unable to convince their fellow Israelis that their two-state pipe dream will bring peace, the Israeli Left has joined forces with the international Left in its increasingly shrill campaigns to delegitimize the country's right to exist and undermine its ability to defend itself.
Without this kind of two-way communication, engagement is just a pipe dream.
"It's a pipe dream to think that a country can secure its cyber-borders, " says Schneier.
The result is that for the affluent and spa-addicted, the idea of a home spa is becoming less a pipe dream and more an indulgent reality.
It has been mostly a pipe dream, as his nearly seven years of leadership has shown a continuing 5-4 conservative-liberal split on most hot-button issues.
The combination of smartphones and home Wi-Fi networks has taken the concept of a truly wireless connected home from a pipe dream to a reality.
To be sure, with intermediate-term munis earning 4% and Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) not doing so well, the 7% return may be a pipe dream.
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Once you have shopped within a whisker of your luggage allowance, grab a Lebanese mezze lunch outdoors at Cafe Layali Zaman on the Corniche (look for the "Baguette" sign), where the hummus is perfectly garlicky, the baba ganoush a smoky, aubergine dream and you might choose to accompany your Arabic coffee with a sweet-scented shisha water-pipe.
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