The phrase
"little hope" means having a small or minimal amount of optimism or expectation for a positive outcome or future result.
Full definition
The adults are at a loose end, poor and living hand to mouth with very
little hope of ever living the American dream.
With no clear idea what's delaying pregnancy, western medicine offers very
little hope for treatment.
It can also be a very irritating game because sometimes you'll be battling the tide
with little hope of getting anything done.
This left builders and developers bankrupt, off - plan homes nowhere to be seen, and buyers with
very little hope of recovering their money.
They are skeptical that charter schools provide an appropriate channel for achieving greater scale, but the organizational barriers in conventional public schools also seem to
offer little hope for widespread implementation.
But it does not follow that we should therefore
hold little hope for results from school reform.
The school funding workshop
left little hope that the governor plans any real school finance reform.
I
see little hope for an effective version of what you called a «technology» approach.
While thousands of scientific papers have been written about the theoretical particles, until this year there had
seemed little hope of actually confirming their existence.
Just because you don't believe what they do doesn't give you the right to try to take away
what little hope for the future they have right now.
Where there is
so little hope, and so few ways to feel like you can make a difference, it becomes tempting to just tune out.
I am determined to keep making things work even if there is very
little hope at doing so.
And even the government holds
out little hope that 2020 goals of cutting emissions by 40 percent compared to 1990 will be met.
My life has an abundance of frustration and pain plus a fair bit of sex and lots of killing and broken bones but it's got
precious little hope & joy comfort & inspiration.
This is a long lonely road with what feels
like little hope, but this book does speak to the therapeutic hope that does exist with proper insight and therapy.
When the economy looks forward and sees
little hope color and texture become important.
They
promise little hope of stemming the rising number of single - parent families, a major contributor to both child poverty and low levels of student performance.
Suicide rates are nearly seven times higher than in the general population since many people are left
with little hope and can no longer handle the suffering.
Because I have
little hope in quick remodeling, I figure I'll actually have a working kitchen by the time your book comes out.
There
seems little hope for the continuity and certainty that those in the intellectual property industry crave.
I
hold little hope for humanity evolving much beyond this, as we will always be held back by ignorance.
The majority's conclusion
provides little hope to street - based sex workers, who are among the most vulnerable members of our society.
The real issue is I
see little hope that the reimbursement will continue to rise as fast as food and wage inflation, particularly in higher cost metropolitan areas.
It was a bleak world, with no wonder, no enticing mystery, no great expectations and
precious little hope.
This makes it incredibly easy to be overwhelmed, with
little hope of survival.
It was millions of dollars in debt, with
little hope for long - term recovery.
This requires investors to buy when the media is screaming to sell their stocks, people are losing their jobs, businesses are filing Chapter - 11, and there is
little hope on the horizon.
I have
little hope now that the social sciences will — ie APS / Cook / Oreskes / Lewandowsky's of that world
We were given
little hope against the Catalans, maybe without MSN, but boasting the not inconsiderable talents of Diego Maradona and Bernd Schuster.
Now, parked in a 300 - square - foot office near the San Francisco Caltrain station, with four crazy guys in the suite next door creating one of the first «I - S - P's (nobody even knew what that meant back then), I made a little videoconferencing program with
equally little hope of generating revenue.
QE1 didn't work, QE2 didn't work and I think there is very
little hope QE3 will work.»
It is easy to see, from a reading of such Old Testament references, that such a continuation of bare existence
carried little hope and made little appeal to the ordinary Jew of the time.
They went out, quite disgracefully, to a 10 man PSG... Also this would have been an acceptable reaction after the first leg when we gave ourselves very
little hope not after we came within 1 goal against the best defence in Europe.