So it is probably naive wishful thinking to expect regulators to act intelligent on HFT.
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Now, some of these merger fiends may be terrific companies, but it would be wishful thinking to suppose that any of them are understating their earnings.
But I believe it is wishful thinking to assume any company that has standardized on Outlook will demand that Microsoft fix Outlook or threaten to switch to another client.
Considering the modest claims made by the author of the plan, as well as the sharp questioning of even those claims by many eminent economists, it would require a heavy dose of wishful thinking to regard QE2 as a potent remedy for the ills of the real economy.
So my earlier post may as well be chalked up to wishful thinking.
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Some plots misfire, and a few veer close to wishful thinking, but little of this matters, because the structure feels so confident.
The intelligence community remains ponderous, unimaginative, and yet given to wishful thinking.
He said that, given the lack of time for scrutiny before an election, it was "wishful thinking" to expect the Bill to be embraced by peers.
Such wishful thinking led to the financial bubble of 1997-98, when hot money from abroad piled into flimsy stocks and bonds, culminating in the default, devaluation and banking collapse of August 1998.
If such a reappraisal is performed without illusions and on the basis of the actual international and regional conditions (as opposed to wishful thinking about the way things might or "should" be), it could create a basis for a far more harmonious U.S.-Israeli relationship and improve the prospects for preserving the peace in the ever volatile Middle East.
An alternative ending to this wishful-thinking, Edgar Allan Poe-esque scenario has Jimbo leaving the planet entirely, overcoming his xenophobia to allow himself to be rescued by space aliens.
So, the idea that cutting the cable was going to save money turned to be wishful thinking.
Encouraging people like this to get more passionate is like encouraging people to practice more wishful thinking.
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But over a 40-year career in investment banking, Mr Simmons adds, he has learnt never to rely on wishful thinking.
In particular, the notion that putting more kids through college can restore the middle-class society we used to have is wishful thinking.
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Mr Howard's assertion last year that Australia had moved on from the Iraq war may turn out to have been wishful thinking.
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Actually, it's only in Maria's wishful thinking that David is coming to see HER.
Essentially, the performance gap is narrow enough to be explained by wishful thinking.
But Kandigol, like many women here, is realistic enough to know that this is wishful thinking at the moment.
National Republican Congressional Committee spokeswoman Julie Shutley called that number "wishful thinking, " though she declined to speculate on how many seats the party is in danger of losing.
Unfortunately, predictions that this threat will not eventuate because the Soviets will decline to maintain these stocks of relocated materiel have proved to be nothing more than wishful thinking.
"To me, many of these projects are a result of easy access to capital and a combination of wishful thinking and speculative behavior rather than rational business calculations, " said Victor Teo, assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong.
The guiding consideration for the Senate as it considers whether to ratify the CWC should not be wishful thinking about how wonderful the world would be if only we could rid it of chemical weapons.
The projections of IMF economists - that Greece may get its debt down to 129% by 2020, by running a surplus of tax receipts over spending in the short term - looks to most people in high finance like wishful thinking.
The first case (Chamberlain) was optimism supported by wishful thinking, as useful as buying a lottery ticket to fend off bankruptcy.
This is surely wishful thinking, since it assumes that politicians will resist the temptation to go on a spending spree.
There is a serious breakdown occurring between the wishful mandate of universal higher education and the preparedness of the population being told to pursue it.
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