It was tempting to delude people that we had received more cards than we actually did. |
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I will constrain my heart against my liking, save that I will not delude him with false hopes. |
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This can delude people who want their leaders to improve their economic conditions. |
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It's all too easy to delude yourself that the few square blocks in which you live or work are the sum of New York. |
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Men belaud you as delicate and fragile, so as to delude you into thinking yourselves weak. |
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We all delude ourselves to varying degrees, but we normally have some face-saving excuse. |
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But I never let my personal loyalties delude me into thinking that the determination of winners is anything but arbitrary. |
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When we believe our own storyline, as if it were a novel that will reach its climax and denouement in tidy fashion, we delude ourselves. |
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That businesses spend vast sums to delude consumers, not inform them, is too obvious to merit comment. |
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So do not try to delude me into believing that decisions in cultural matters are not as political as those regarding helicopters! |
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At times players and football clubs can delude themselves into believing that they are too good to go down and that relegation is a scenario that will never darken their door. |
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I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. |
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Nino Burjanadze, an opposition politician, urged Georgians not to delude themselves about the West's commitment to their country. |
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He looked requisitely adolescent, like a baby in need of a wet nurse, and possessed the ability to delude himself into thinking he could carry a tune. |
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Those of us who fondly delude ourselves that Scotland is the global mecca for the socially progressive really need to snap out of it soon. |
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We should not delude ourselves that the current events are merely a result of the economic downturn. |
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As for the human rights I have been hearing about, let us not delude ourselves. |
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And we should not delude ourselves into thinking that technological progress will relieve us of these tasks. |
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I think our biggest issue is with the 1,700 temps and we should not delude the issues of the other groups. |
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The return of government intervention and regulation, which are clearly indispensable, should not however delude us. |
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And we can't delude ourselves into thinking that economic imbalances will be resolved in an orderly way through exchange rate adjustments alone. |
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Do not delude yourself that your case is different from those who have made that mistake in the past. |
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Those who tried to delude the people into believing that this was the last war were either fools or knaves, and he inclined to think that there were more knaves than fools. |
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Without sufficient growth, we should not delude ourselves about how painful this is going to be. |
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We should not delude ourselves: the resignation of Karami's puppet government and the announcement that Syrian troops are to be redeployed represent just one stage in the process. |
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We are all responsible for what has been done in the past, and the idea here is not to pin the blame on anyone or to delude ourselves into thinking that someone else will solve our problems for us. |
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We must not delude ourselves that Canada's refusal to participate will have much effect on President Bush's decision to go to war, a war he is champing at the bit to declare. |
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Many women and men delude themselves into thinking that only the hardest and most rugged man is attractive and to many it may be the case. |
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To wish to draw up at national level rules for takeover bids, prudential rules, environmental standards, technological standards, and quality and reliability standards is to delude ourselves and serves no useful purpose. |
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A primate that pretends to be an individual other than itself, to delude a third party, enters into a narrative structure, but the hero of the story is always the narrator. |
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So discouraging their use, the argument runs, lets people delude themselves into thinking that they are saving the planet. There is something in both arguments. |
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Let us not delude ourselves that market mechanisms or the pride of researchers and scientists suffice to meet the challenge of modernisation: what are needed are decisions we agree on and a common will. |
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But let us not delude ourselves: we need both good financial management and the corresponding means of payment if we are to eliminate outstanding commitments. |
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One must not delude oneself: the State could not strengthen legality and democracy in Colombia without the support of human rights activists and of strong, free and dynamic human rights organizations. |
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We should not delude ourselves that the middle is the golden path. |
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But neither Mr Brown nor David Cameron should delude himself. |
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I think that we should not delude ourselves. |
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We could delude ourselves by saying that the delays are the result of the cumbersome nature of society, and that by repeating principles, the European Parliament will at least be able to be ahead of society. |
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Delude ourselves into that kind of thinking however and a rude awakening will await us. |
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