false dawn

It was all of eight years ago that a Benjamin Cohen, in his article, 'Electronic Money: New Day or False Dawn?', stated that the era of electronic money will soon be upon us.
Il y a huit ans déjà, Benjamin Cohen avait affirmé, dans un article intitulé "La monnaie électronique : nouvelle ère ou faux espoirs ?", que l'ère de la monnaie électronique arrivait à grands pas.
He truly is the false dawn, though believing himself to be the true one.
En vérité, il est la fausse aurore, bien qu'il se prenne pour la vraie.
Caritas said that in the Land of the Rising Sun, the G8 promised a false dawn on climate change.
Caritas a déclaré qu’au pays du soleil levant, le G8 a promis une aube fallacieuse au changement climatique.
However, the signs of a cyclical upturn in the United States economy in early 2002 could well turn out to be a false dawn.
Or, les signes d'un retournement de la conjoncture aux États-Unis dans les premiers mois de 2002 pourraient bien s'avérer trompeurs.
That would not be the right path to follow; rather it would be something of a false dawn that would feed meaningless illusions.
Ce ne serait pas opportun, et il s’agirait plutôt d’une lueur d’espoir trompeuse qui alimenterait des illusions vaines.
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