"For decades Israel has sought to reach a separate peace agreement with Lebanon which has always failed, and it's wishful thinking to expect that such a deal could be reached at a time when Hezbollah has become the undisputed power in Lebanon, " said Malka, who is the deputy director of CSIS' Middle East program.
So it is probably naive wishful thinking to expect regulators to act intelligent on HFT.
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It was always wishful thinking to suppose that Mr Kim was developing his nukes in order to trade them away.
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.
At a time when there is necessarily profound uncertainty about the future course of the USSR, were wishful thinking to displace objective analysis, U.S. interests could be seriously jeopardized.
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Even with Mr Wan, and a growing number of his associates, for the moment behind bars, it may be wishful thinking to assume that the gangland violence that has racked Macau will come to a tidy end.
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.
If a President whose monomaniacal attachment to wishful thinking is replaced by a man and an Administration prepared to reckon with the world as it really is not just as we wish it to be then the United States may yet be spared further travel down the dangerous road toward effective unilateral chemical disarmament.
If a President whose monomaniacal attachment to wishful thinking is replaced by a man and an Administration prepared to reckon with the world as it really is -- not just as we wish it to be -- then the United States may yet be spared further travel down the dangerous road toward effective unilateral chemical disarmament.
What is wishful thinking is to believe that a desire for peace means not preparing for war.
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.
As in domestic affairs, there is too often a blindness to consequences, a wishful thinking about human nature, and the same refusal to pay the price for maintaining our civilization.
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.
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