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in a perfect world

If things existed or happened exactly as one would like. Well, in a perfect world I'd be able to take time off for paternity leave without having it affect my pay, but at least I get to take the time off at all! Well, we'd be able to provide healthcare services to every citizen without charge in a perfect world, but unfortunately that's never going to happen. Why did you ask John for practical advice? All you'll get from him are outlandish ideas feasible in a perfect world!
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in an ideal world

If things existed or happened exactly as one would like. Well, in an ideal world I'd be able to take time off for paternity leave without having it affect my pay, but at least I get to take the time off at all! Well, we'd be able to provide healthcare services to every citizen without charge in an ideal world, but unfortunately that's never going to happen. Why did you ask John for practical advice? All you'll get from him are outlandish ideas feasible in a perfect world!
See also: an, ideal, world
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in an ˌideal/a ˌperfect ˈworld

used to say that something is what you would like to happen or what should happen, but you know it cannot: In an ideal world we would be recycling and reusing everything.
See also: an, ideal, perfect, world
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Let U, V, I and T be ideals of a BCI-algebra S such that I [subset not equal to] U and J [subset not equal to] V.
Since U and V are ideals of S, we have x * y [member of] U [intersection] V.
Next we give two examples of [phi]-primal Z-graded ideals of a given Z-graded ring R (where [phi] = [phi]0).
Bataineh, "Generalizations of prime ideals," Communications in Algebra, vol.
'You may be accused of being naive at times but that should not make you forgo your ideals and beliefs.
'In turn, it is your ideals and values, ones that are not tainted by race or creed that reminds us of what we used to believe in, what is right and wrong and what should be done or not done,' he said.
In all, an ideal wardrobe has about 50 fashion articles.
Building an ideal wardrobe can be a very fulfilling fashion decision to make in the new year.
Women who are exposed to media ideal and thin body images usually engage themselves in different methods to modify their body image and shape, even they wear padded or small bra to form the illusion of having a size of ideal breasts, and such females often undergo plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery and breast surgery to attain perfect body image (Harrison, 2003; Henderson-King and Brooks, 2009).
In this context, the point of plastic surgery can be said to be the endeavor to redress a person's failure to acknowledge how she sees herself due to body image discrepancies that may lead to the development of thin ideal internalization (Nouri, Hill, and Orrell-Valente, 2011; Ura and Preston, 2015; Chaker, Chang, and Hakim-Larson, 2015) and increase the need to undergo a plastic surgery repeatedly (Sarwer, 2002; Posavac, and Posavac, 2002).