pipe dream

A computer age is not a pipe dream and there will come a day when most of our needs can be met by this wonderful machine.

But critics say that "clean coal" is a pipe dream, an oxymoron in terms of the carbon emissions that count most toward climate change.

His study of the disarmament conference of 1932, Pipe Dream of Peace( London, 1935), remains the only attempt at a comprehensive treatment .

Father's plan to build a forest cabin by the lake was just a pipe dream .

Many firms cheat on basic business practices, and ethical self-discipline is just a pipe dream.

Savannah: For once in their life, a place where they won't have to worry about a thing, what do you think? Pipe dream, huh?

They've thought through a plan to get from point A to point B, and that plan is no pipe dream.

In environments like this, requirements are effectively changing all the time and stability of requirements is a pipe dream.

For foreign investors, the prospect of having access to a market of 1 billion consumers no longer seems like a pipe dream.

"They" said what I tried to attain was a pipe-dream and nothing more.

The Financial Times described it as a "Cross between a frustrated cartel and a pipe dream. "

Bridging the gap between business and IT has always been, for the most part, a pipe dream for many a sponsor of SOA initiatives.

Mr. Obama reminded us that charting a clean energy future is not a pipe dream and that America can reduce its dependence on foreign oil.

It might sound like a pipe dream, but the OpenFlow consortium already claims to include a number of (still secret) switch manufacturers.

You can study acting as long as you like, but starring in a Hollywood movie is just a pipe dream.

Re- inflating the bubble with liquidity is just a pipe dream.

Peter's idea of becoming a movie star is only a pipe dream .

Fuel- producing microbes long seemed more like a sci - fi pipe dream than a viable solution to the fossil-fuel crisis .

Dad, do you think I'm qualified for this job or is it just a pipe dream?

The demise of the driving instructor may still be decades away, but the project is no mere pipe-dream.

The Koza proposal may be a pipe dream. In the meantime, though, there is little question that the current system is the new normal.

This situation might sound like a pipe dream, but it's closer to reality than you might think.

In Detroit, General Motors is working on what might sound like a pipe-dream: crash-proof Cadillacs.

But that might just be a pipe dream, because, y'know, he's out of state.

Pipe Dream: Struggling laborers with little recourse to improve their situation must rely on government intervention.

No, I think universal harmony is a pipe dream and it may be more productive to focus on more modest goals, like a ban on yodeling.

Using credit to fool yourself that you can afford it now, but pay for it in the future is a pipe dream.

Stop dreaming that pipe dream that you will become a millionaire someday without hard work!

and his yearning to become the world's greatest dancer seemed but a pipe dream .

It's believed that her plans for a movie career had all been merely a pipe dream.

If not, the MDGs and poverty reduction are a pipe dream.

It feels really cool, but the idea of actually reading it is kind of a pipe dream.

You could waste your whole life on a pipe-dream.

For me, it is just a pipe dream to travel to The Moon.

It is believed that her plans for a movie career had all been merely a pipe dream.

San Francisco (CNN) -- Playing Super Mario on a Nintendo phone will remain a pipe dream.

How can you make the pipe dream of an impromptu trip to the greatest show in soccer a reality? Here's how.

China must know that the creation of a totally new and powerful international currency is a pipe-dream.

These green features mean that sustainable roadways can be more than a pipe dream.

'This is our pipe dream, ' he said, adding that the exchange has discussed these ideas 'with a lot of other people. '

That's just a pipe dream. I don't think that's gonna happen in this lifetime.

Eventually, everyone else will give up on the pipe dream of binary XML and learn to love text (but not by the end of 2007).

Playing Super Mario on a Nintendo phone will remain a pipe dream.

Alternative fuel for vehicles, once a pipe dream, has become a reality.

Watery Region , the dream look forward thinking such as wine , he turned around, she firmly rejects Pipe Dream's hands, she will not go up .

Is training the Iraqi army anything more than a pipe-dream?

This is no unfunded pipe-dream. The city is already required to spend $6. 8 billion over 20 years to meet harbour-quality standards.

You can forget it. It's only a pipe dream.

This is a pipe-dream, if only because NATO's membership includes such non-EU countries as Canada, Norway and Turkey.

To not show emotion, you're an idiot, or you're living a pipe dream.

It's not a pipe dream, go for it.

It is a pipe dream, according to a leader of Saudi Arabia's oil industry.

John: No, it's not a pipe dream, it's a perfect dream.

Central Europe 20 years later, if glimpsed from 1989, would have seemed a glorious pipe-dream.

This is a pipe dream at best--but one that we should at least aspire to.

It's not a pipe dream. I'm very qualified, I have good grades. I can get in. It's not a pipe dream.

Early retirement is a pipe dream for many.

He would love to have a beautiful mansion, but that is a pipe dream.

He is a person with pipe dream and dreams of becoming a millionaire.

I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe.

For its detractors, it is a mere pipe dream.

Although most Wendigo consider this last view a pipe dream, frustration has brought more and more to this way of thinking.

For most middle-income people, that is simply a pipe dream. . . With our clients, I use a different and more realistic approach.

Wake up. Don't make pipe dream.

It's a nice little pipe dream.

But in febrile, partisan Washington that is a pipe-dream.

His plan for purchasing a house in this city now has become a pipe dream .

This is a pipe dream that can cost you both time and money.

I mean that he is told, the moment he arrives, that his secret dream of greatness is a pipe-dream;