He said it was unrealistic to expect tempers not to flare, given the sporting history between the two schools. |
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It may be unrealistic to expect ministers to acknowledge any responsibility for system failures. |
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With an abundance of crises and challenges do we have unrealistic expectations of our corporate leaders? |
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I suppose good parents strive for perfection, which is unrealistic and unnecessary. |
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After seven albums, it is unrealistic to expect Beck to keep reinventing himself. |
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None of these proposals is revolutionary, and many may seem unrealistic and idealistic. |
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In a film which is filled with unrealistic elements it feels like a moment of realism. |
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Faced with such a vision, a standard reaction is to declare it unrealistic and utopian. |
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Many Koreans realize that it is presently unrealistic and a remote possibility to envision a unified Korea. |
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The former Chief Inspector of Schools in Scotland has claimed his plans are unrealistic and unworkable. |
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That usually meant that his head was full of empty worries and unrealistic plans. |
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I think it would be unrealistic if I quickly tried to make them friends within the time restraints of this story. |
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His lefty politics had a bristling integrity, yet weren't so extreme as to be inaccessible or unrealistic. |
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Much of the bond rally now is built on exaggerated fears of deflation and unrealistic hopes that the Fed will buoy the market by buying bonds. |
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She keeps interrupting to express her annoyance at how unrealistic and ridiculous the rules are. |
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They can sometimes recognize that their obsessions and compulsions are unrealistic. |
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The figures suggested by Trives are grossly inflated and completely unrealistic having regard to the exigent circumstances. |
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The movie adds a happy ending, which seems the most unrealistic portion of the script. |
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The enthusiasm of the health service to promote screening has perhaps given women unrealistic expectations. |
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The message in this particular context was that an over-dependence on facts and figures to prove a specific point could be unrealistic. |
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How could these critics of Raphael's unrealistic depictions of the world turn around and paint endless pictures of Ophelia? |
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When I re-read it in later years I realized that the plot was unrealistic, the dialogue feeble and the characterization nil. |
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It's not just that the plot is unrealistic, it's that it simply doesn't work structurally. |
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Of course, as in any stylized comedy, the characters are slightly unrealistic. |
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Businessmen with their suits and briefcases, mother's with their crying children and overstuffed luggage, it all seems so unrealistic. |
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Mr Irwin said that calls to replace unmanned level crossings with bridges and underpasses was unreasonable and unrealistic. |
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Although chuffed I shrugged that off as a polite, but unrealistic, compliment. |
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You'd have to wait for a century to approach a position of parity between the two populations, assuming the same unrealistic growth rates. |
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What makes this hypothetical unusual and unrealistic is the unambiguously objective manifestation of intent in the advertisement. |
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American idealism with its unrealistic expectations led many to assume the master was above vices. |
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Believe it or not, this was a pejorative term, implying unrealistic ambitions. |
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Procrastination often comes from unrealistic perfectionist tendencies, self-doubt, or fear of change. |
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Calls for the city to be even more continental are perhaps a bit unrealistic, she says. |
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As well as being badly written, it is too long, too vague, too pompous, too rhetorical, too unrealistic and too boring. |
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Too many clubs seem to be spending ridiculous amounts based on projected incomes which are not just unrealistic but beyond the realms of fantasy. |
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The only sense in which Europe has fallen behind is its failure to live up to unrealistic Europhile expectations. |
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The entire comic book is like a collection of unrealistic industrial design assignments put in practice. |
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Of course the loss of one life is too many, but it would perhaps have been unrealistic to wish for quite such a favourable outcome. |
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If the litmus test for aerospace integration is completely interchangeable air and space communities, such a goal is probably unrealistic. |
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They don't realise that it is the fountainhead of all such unrealistic extremist philosophy. |
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The advertisements kids see around the holidays can help foster unrealistic expectations and lead to disappointment. |
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This relationship was unrealistic, and doomed from the outset, came between Wilde and his art, and became his ruination. |
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This has created unrealistic demands on women and has led to a divorce rate of nearly 50 percent. |
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It's unrealistic, and selfish, for Internet businesses to think they can end-run the checks and balances in the economy and the average American. |
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When you consider the price of things now and the rising cost of living, anything less is just unrealistic. |
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Their wives have become spoiled, take their efforts for granted and have unrealistic expectations. |
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Would it be impossibly unrealistic to suggest that a shift of resource into diagnostics and screening might pay long term benefits? |
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For such patients, it may be unrealistic to mandate abstinence as a requirement for treatment. |
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The premise remains interesting, but the plot is cluttered with schemes and counter-schemes that seem unrealistic at best and pointless at worst. |
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Family obligations, too much debt, unrealistic expectations, all of it can cause tension and stress. |
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This is incredibly unrealistic and not terribly conducive to the story itself. |
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While the set design has some unrealistic elements to it, the costumes for A Month in the Country feature plenty of period detail. |
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Stock holders get an unrealistic view of the company's worth when they look at the market capitalization. |
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The Government is setting totally unrealistic targets and not pumping the money in. |
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His reputation as a meddler, unwilling to afford his managers free rein, is as damaging as what appears to be his unrealistic ambition. |
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But the women who gleam from the pages of the glossies set up unrealistic and hard-to-sustain goals. |
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They are remote and unrealistic ivory-tower idealists, corrupt self-seekers, secret subversives, or simply too weak to resist villainy. |
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A Department of Justice spokesperson rejected suggestions the move was a political gesture which would prove unrealistic when challenged. |
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Taking an aristocrat's pompous and often unrealistic pontifications as an ideal for living is clearly not a good thing. |
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On the other hand, just as comparing intrinsic qualities is subjectively unrealistic, comparing absolutes is a total waste. |
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It is unrealistic to expect all our answers to come from a long dead Englishman, let alone a pale Galilean. |
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Consumer watchdogs in York have warned residents to steer clear of emails making extravagant claims about unrealistic earnings. |
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That may sound unrealistic, but filmmaking in Scotland has changed almost beyond recognition over the past 20 years. |
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In addition, it may exacerbate already powerful societal pressures on children to fulfill unrealistic parental expectations. |
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The teacher would flip her wig, which would not be hard since her wig was so unrealistic. |
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Identify and uproot irrational beliefs that lead you to place unrealistic demands on yourself. |
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The paintings of the Middle Ages were flat, misproportioned, lacking in depth and scale, lifeless, and unrealistic. |
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Its main drawback is that it is based on the unrealistic and simplistic assumptions of two countries producing only two goods. |
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From the disease model point of view, moderation of addictive behavior is an unrealistic goal for a true addict. |
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The kids felt the story was unrealistic and had no bearing or relevance to their lives. |
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I know it is completely unrealistic, because formally I am not searching, I cast about with my eyes. |
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I feel that using technology for offsides, penalties, etc. would be unrealistic. |
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It can, admittedly, be hard to distinguish between being idealistic and being unrealistic. |
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However, the idea has received a cool reception from employers, who believe it is unrealistic for all but a very few companies and employees. |
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There's no point in being unrealistic and believing you can charge top whack for a so-so property. |
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Expecting any commander who is overly supervised in garrison to suddenly become an agile, adaptive leader in a field environment is unrealistic. |
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Indeed, the fiction of an Australia blithely indifferent to America is the single-most unrealistic aspect of the film. |
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If he does, Horne, who eschews unrealistic targets and makes no extravagant claims, will return home a contented man. |
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The New Zealand Aquaculture Council believes that the provision is unrealistic and unworkable. |
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It is true that many of us became involved in the feminist movement with unrealistic expectations of bonded sisterhood. |
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Certain cinema techniques are innately unrealistic, such as the blue screen and zoom lens. |
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Some businesses irreparably damage their working capital position by extending unrealistic credit to customers. |
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A healthy body image means wanting to look and feel good while avoiding unrealistic expectations. |
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Many patients arrive at plastic surgery clinics with unrealistic expectations. |
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Sharon's long standing demand for seven days of total quiet has been so utterly unrealistic it boggles the mind. |
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It would be ideal if all sexual congress took place between consenting couples in love but unfortunately this is unrealistic. |
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Because of the current shifts and perhaps unpredictable forces in today's labour market, these demands may seem unrealistic. |
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Their response, however, consists of a pathetic mixture of pious wishes and unrealistic hopes. |
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So long as no English king conceived the unrealistic ambition of conquering Scotland, there was no reason for that to change. |
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It would be unrealistic to expect too much from the mission, based on a ten-day visit. |
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The above analysis is based on an unrealistic assumption of perfect knowledge of future treatments. |
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To be fair, Miles was a genius and it is unrealistic to expect that sort of creative energy from anybody. |
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Many schemes promise unrealistic earnings and don't explain clearly what the work involves. |
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Many critics have lambasted the female characters in his plays as two-dimensional and unrealistic portrayals of subservient women. |
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But if we carry on as we are, it will be frittered away on grandiose schemes and unrealistic projects. |
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Victor argues that Kyoto cannot work, nor can unrealistic regulations on emissions reduction. |
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Now Coun Montaut has condemned the plans as being totally unrealistic and devastating for everyone. |
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It is unrealistic to ask rich students to love the spirit of poverty and live as the poor. |
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It is unrealistic to expect the country to have the amenities that urban areas have. |
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Romeo and Juliet is definitely unrealistic in my opinion, but I will stop now before I blabber on about why I think it's really not all that good. |
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They display an unrealistic idealism and create a false sense of peace. |
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Those who excoriate the approach as idealistic or unrealistic missed the point. |
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Barbie is an unrealistic, unhealthy, insulting representation of female appearance. |
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With an equal drive and devotion to achieving what some would think impossible, unrealistic targets were set very early and reached well before time. |
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On many projects, said O'Mahony, the engineering team is left trying to fight science by being asked to achieve some unrealistic sensor or actuator accuracies. |
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One step too far, and ambition turns into unrealistic expectations, compulsion into craziness. |
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Complete protection from random harm is perhaps the most dangerously unrealistic of fantasies. |
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Workplace tensions, whether related to compensation issues, unrealistic profit margins or setting rapid growth goals, can create an environment ripe for fraud. |
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Why are melodramas like The Notebook derided for being unrealistic, while Godzilla gets lauded as the best of the year? |
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But while mathematical formalism may camouflage assumptive foolishness, it does not correct its theoretical effects and may exaggerate them, hence the unrealistic result. |
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Men are more likely to have unrealistic expectations that they would succeed, rather than fail, in this Hobbesian state. |
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Expectations, reasonable or unrealistic, remain so even if we impose them on ourselves. |
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The lack of materials meant that teachers must either use lecture and recitation or spend unrealistic amounts of time scrounging for materials and planning creative lessons. |
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In a scene of utter and complete stupidity, totally unrealistic and outside the honesty and accuracy previously depicted, the movie just self-destructs. |
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Adults often have a double standard, accepting a level of chaos in their own room or desk, while nagging a child to keep to an unrealistic level of tidiness. |
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It's not unrealistic to think they might have had a love affair if he had wanted it or known how to ask. |
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To expect these hunting horses to thrive in roles for which they are not suited by breeding would be as unrealistic as to expect trained sheepdogs to thrive as family pets. |
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It is simply unrealistic to say that judges can decide every case by mechanically applying a rigid algorithm. |
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Now, in the first study of its kind, neuroscientists have pinpointed the brain circuits that underlie unrealistic optimism. |
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But she'd been reading cheap romance novels purchased from the bookstore next door, so when she started spouting unrealistic blabber about needs and desires I ignored her. |
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He made only one unrealistic request as he sought to keep others from becoming infected and began a fight for his life. |
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The Vampire Diaries sets an unrealistic precedence for both magical creatures and teenage hotness in small town America. |
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When you seem to be pandering to an audience with a slender attention span, then it's unrealistic to expect character development, clever plot twists or edge-of-seat tension. |
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Having inflexible, overly moralistic policies for dealing with those who deal in drugs may be unrealistic in this environment if there are other priorities. |
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But their persecution complex is unbecoming because it is unrealistic. |
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He was a Rorschach test, vaulted into the presidency by positive perceptions and unrealistic expectations. |
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Formal studies are often unrealistic because the informal level is crucial to politics, while official language and procedures legitimate or mystify hidden biases. |
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At the same time, one cannot give in to unworthy and unrealistic demands. |
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The rest of the men told him he was unrealistic and an idiot. |
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People are unlikely to receive these maximum ambient exposures simply because it would be unrealistic to lie in the unshaded sun all day without moving. |
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The scheme is expensive, confused, unworkable and unrealistic. |
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There's something vaguely smug about a filmmaker crafting a wholly unrealistic portrait of America and then criticizing us for being as violent as the people in his movie. |
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The term rapidly acquired a more general usage and is sometimes used to describe any non-specific unrealistic genre scene by English 18th-century artists. |
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However, a participation rate of 100 percent is unrealistic, given that participation rates for even the most open-handed European programs are well below this maximum. |
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However, economic analysts in the private sector are critical of the government's unrealistic confidence in the economy, chiefly based on continuing robust shipments. |
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Okay, so admittedly that may be a fanciful and unrealistic goal. |
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Purists will want to opt for the original black and white set, because as far as colorization has come, it still looks too pastel and unrealistic. |
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It seems to us that the suggestion that there should be separate trials of the rape and indecency charges in the present case was simply unrealistic. |
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Businesses have complained they are being forced to carry unrealistic floats in their tills to keep up with customers' demand for change to feed the meters. |
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We feel that we must conform to these unrealistic, fairytale like images. |
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Demands for a picturesque and playable turf in place by tourist season make waiting for appropriate seasonal temperatures an unrealistic option for most turf managers. |
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Watergate did nothing to change the plebiscitary nature of the presidency, in which the public's unrealistic expectations create tremendous pressures on presidents to deliver. |
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This may be the most gleefully unrealistic action film in the past decade. |
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This meant that it was unrealistic to harmonise the economic systems of Serbia and Montenegro because of major disproportions in the structure of the two economies, he said. |
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Persecutory delusions are unrealistic beliefs that others are intentionally trying to harm the person. |
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The change was prompted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who had criticized the scene for showing an unrealistic star pattern. |
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The violence is goofy and totally unrealistic, the type you see in video games and old Road Runner cartoons. |
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This will allow you to identify the client's financial goals, wall off unrealistic objectives, and document your findings for the client file. |
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To expect former apparatchiks to organize efficient economies that could respond to disasters on this scale was simply unrealistic. |
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But to bandy about a figure like 12 percent, which doesn't seem to be based on anything, is unrealistic. |
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A homogeneous absorption of an entire species is a rather unrealistic idea. |
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Hitler proposed beginning the invasion on 25 October 1939 but accepted that the date was probably unrealistic. |
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In regard to life in general... and to capitalism in particular, objectivism is just about as unrealistic and antiempirical as it can be. |
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Most of the electric guitar samples I've come across tend to be overprocessed and unrealistic. |
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John Kasich indirectly criticized Cruz's plan, saying candidates who were promising 10 percent flat taxes were being unrealistic. |
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Professor Michael Keating said he believed that the condensed timetable, which called for draft legislation by January 2015, was unrealistic. |
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The financial Crowns' intertwinement with domestic political and business institutions, however, makes their rapid unwinding unrealistic. |
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Milne also warns that it's unrealistic to value a private company by relying on the price-earnings ratios that prevail among public companies. |
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He stretched the funding to include his planned books on geology, and agreed to unrealistic dates with the publisher. |
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Still, Hunt wonders about the unrealistic model of beauty it might set. |
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Becoming part of the Coverall team is not made complicated by a rigorous application process and unrealistic financial requirements. |
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Aashayein can be described as emotionally unrealistic, unreeling at a very slow space. |
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Where it gets into the unrealistic is that Gary is pretty much a lap dog. |
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They may be unrealistic at times, but they can also be helpful in securing attractive matchups. |
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Many analysts say the target is unrealistic, given the depilated infrastructure due to many wars and more than a decade-long international embargo. |
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These unrealistic aims resulted in parliamentary criticism, especially since the king was reluctant to deal with the more humdrum business of administering justice at home. |
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It seems that at the congress of Arras, in the summer of 1435, where the duke of Beaufort was mediator, the English were unrealistic in their demands. |
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This makes the IEA scenario technically and financially unrealistic. |
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Workers are often required to assemble an unrealistic number of garment pieces per day to earn a minimum daily wage, which has only recently been increased to 200 gourdes. |
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Although relatively straightforward, the story, together with its equally unrealistic ostensible sequel Missee Lee, is much more fantastic than the rest of the series. |
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But that soon proved unwieldy, unprofitable, and unrealistic. |
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These GPs felt fit notes instead of sick notes may be unrealistic. |
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Asa Hutchinson, undersecretary for Border and Transportation Security, recently indicated it is unrealistic to apply the law to millions of current illegals. |
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By recognizing the above mechanisms for defense of our self-image, we can realize that they are often used to defend unrealistic or untrue self-images. |
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According to the regulators, the shortcomings stemmed from the fact that the living wills were based on certain unrealistic and inadequate assumptions. |
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