Everyone has an agenda, perceived or real.

Yes, I recall some mention of an obsession you have about your divinity.

With regime supporters physical survival seemingly at stake, the expectation of a quick collapse was illusory.

Nobody knows enough about the causes of climate change to prove that an imagined disaster is impossible.

Some of these shifts might be subject to international coordination, in order to avoid adverse competitive consequences, whether real or perceived.

In times of elevated risk, real or perceived, people begin to organize increasingly on the basis of homogenous identities.

We see the human faces on the notes so often that they come to seem like family, creating what the political scientist Benedict Anderson called the imagined community that underlies and sustains a sense of nationhood.

These Davids depend on Western technologies to overcome imbalances of power, and are driven by a sense of real or imagined humiliation.

Some nations do not feel threatened by imaginary insults to national dignity for various historical reasons, they believe themselves to be superior to others. But, if their prestige is in fact at stake, the perception of a threat becomes decisive.

It is easy to imagine disasters so severe that drastic action to prevent them would be reasonable, and advocates of drastic action can easily scare the public with imagined disasters.

It is such excessive fluctuations, not deviations from some fanciful true value whether of assets or of the unemployment rate that Keynes believed policymakers should seek to mitigate.

Throughout American history, threats to national security, whether real or imagined, have led to clampdowns on the rights of citizens and, to a far greater extent, on the rights of immigrants and others suspected of acting in the interests of alien forces.

Biden, while reaffirming that the US does not view China as an enemy, implied that Fu s worries are not fanciful, saying that the worst scenario is a misunderstanding that leads to an unintended conflict.