In truth many of the euro area's supposed strengths were always more apparent than real.

ECONOMIST: Europe's economy

But if their chief financiers are just three Wall Street banks, is this dispersion more apparent than real?

ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

Once Mr Bush has more of his new team in place, other foreign-policy differences may start to seem more apparent than real.

ECONOMIST: Doubts on both sides of the Atlantic

On paper they were doing well, but he said he finally figured out why their prosperity was more apparent than real -- taxes.

FORBES: Fact & Comment

The bottom line is that increases in GDP statistics caused by monetary and fiscal stimulus signals an economic expansion that is more apparent than real.

FORBES: 2 Percent Economic Growth: Real or Apparent?

And some of the shortfall is more apparent than real.

ECONOMIST: German business

Look at the reasons for the narrowing of the gap between British and continental inflation and interest rates, and this convergence turns out to be more apparent than real.

ECONOMIST: The single currency

But the difference is more apparent than real.

ECONOMIST: Poverty