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The moon was low down, and there was just the glimmer of the false dawn that comes about an hour before the real one.— (Joseph Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills, 1888)
As Congo nears the 50th anniversary of its independence from Belgium on June 30th, Mr Chebeya’s murky death suggests that 2006 was a false dawn.— (« It could be a cover-up », dans The Economist, 2010)
This, it must be stressed, is not to mark Arsenal out as potential Premier League winners or acclaim them as the finished product - there have been false dawns before, under both current manager Mikel Arteta and his predecessor Unai Emery.— (Phil McNulty, Arsenal 3–1 Tottenham: Gunners show identity & direction in outstanding derby win, BBC Sport, 1er octobre 2022)
After decades of false dawns, the impending creation of Great British Railways, dovetailing with a new government and the need to address the climate crisis much more seriously, offers a new opportunity to create a viable plan for electrifying more of the British rail network.— (Ben Johnes, « Power cut: Britain’s missed opportunities », dans RAIL, no 1015, 2024, page 33)
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