All incentive pay can be clawed back if results prove illusory.

Additional loans in this mode would indeed almost certainly prove illusory; for diminished value could hardly fail to neutralize increased amount.'

The influence of the rainstorm and the promise it had offered had proved illusory.

The hope proved illusory, as the stump was always too tender to bear any pressure.

The proffered expedient of zones of cultivation proved illusory.

The mail contract, which the easy-going Frenchman had thought that he had secured, proved illusory.

But these hopes proved illusory; only Verlaine knows where he is, and he will not tell.

But these sinister omens proved illusory.

But this hope, too, proved illusory.

Breakthroughs have often proved illusory.

The great future that seemed to await the application of steam power to the tillage of the soil proved illusory.

Any hopes that having had his say he would draw a line under everything that has happened have proven illusory.

Another anticipation proved illusory.

The expected bonus of a complicated scheme which bores voters compared with a carbon tax which triggers debate has proved illusory.

The events of the war by this time had given some ground of hope, but in the end it proved illusory.

These hopes proved illusory, however, and so the eyes of all patriots turned more and more in the direction of Piedmont.