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Decades of relying on the rules of an ostensible meritocracy, however, have proven one thing: that it's an illusory social ideal.

But the president again expressed the hope — which some analysts call illusory — that immigrant contributions would temper Trump’s deportation agenda.

This will supposedly guarantee that the United States forever remains the pre-eminent global superpower, and that a self-serving conception of the "national interest" will always take precedence over ill-defined or illusory global concerns.

However, Paul Kohler, the Liberal Democrat MP for Wimbledon, believes the projected benefits are "utterly illusory".

But in many cases "the discounts were, in fact, illusory", she added.