Sentences with phrase «little prospect»

Days after my birthday, miserable that I was in a job I hated with little prospect of other opportunities, I was laid off.

I consider this software to be a fraudulent scheme with little prospect of ever leaving alpha.

Some operators see little prospect of meeting the agency's standards.

If we can not allow the sincerity of competing views, no matter how much we disagree with them, then we have very little prospect of constructive engagement.

With oil prices hovering around historic lows, and showing little prospect of improvement, the industry is already in a process of contraction.

Some features of children's minds have little prospect for classroom application.

The thought of digging themselves into a deeper financial hole with little prospect of successful recovery seems like throwing bad money after good, having just invested in a costly defence to criminal proceedings.

With the House overwhelmingly controlled by a Tea Party - driven Republican caucus, the near - term offers little prospect of accomplishment for any Democrat.

Over the past year, household credit has increased by around 20 per cent, and with the value of housing loan approvals continuing to rise over recent months, there seems little prospect for a near - term slowing in the pace of growth.

In a rural parish where farming is shrinking both in acreage and influence, one enjoys little prospect for numerical growth.

There is little prospect in the near term that this declension can be reversed.

There is even less enthusiasm for it in the trade unions, and consequently little prospect of it being passed at Labour's conference.

«One concern is that there is no sign of a switch to El Niño, and thus little prospect of compensation through above - normal rains in October through to November,» says Dan Williams from the UK Met Office, who added that it was not possible — yet — to say if this drought is a result of climate change.

Lords of the Fallen is a weird little prospect.

International Ex-Russian minister says he thought bag with $ 2 million cash was gift of alcohol, Reuters Little prospect of Syria peace progress seen in Geneva talks, Reuters

While there seems very little prospect of research finding any causal link between wind turbines and sickness, many people have been primed to believe that such a link does exist — due to extensive coverage in the popular media and the work of several people who either honestly believe that such health effects exist, or find alleged health effects to be a way of discrediting sustainable energy and thus supporting the fossil fuel industry.

Sales rose 21 percent in North America, and 26 percent in greater China, but only 5 percent in western Europe and fell 16 percent in Russia, where Rorsted said he saw little prospect for a recovery while sanctions continue.

Frivolous action: Groundless lawsuit with little prospect of success, often brought to embarrass or annoy the defendant.

i) Regular investment in bonds & loans — a strategy offering little prospect of capital gain, but which will (quite often) attempt to wipe out your capital.

But for British politicians, however, Labour as well as Conservative, Europe has been more of a problem than an opportunity and that shows little prospect of changing.

All three protectorates represent fertile ground for a different kind of predatory behaviour, economic and political, with little prospect for turning them into functional states and economies.

Occidental's oil fields in North Dakota were losing money and the company saw little prospect of turning things around.

And while there have been incremental investments in Canada recently, such as an $ 800 - million expansion to Ford Motor Co.'s Oakville, Ont., plant announced in September, there's little prospect of seeing new «greenfield» assembly plants.

But they concluded, according to NOAA, that «cloud seeding had little prospect of success because hurricanes contained too much natural ice and too little supercooled water.»

Unfortunately, there is little prospect for a near - term breadth thrust of the size that would move us to a more positive stance.

Tired of working at a job with little prospect of advancement, he formed his own company — Tuchman Sports Enterprises — out of a corner of his apartment with one phone and a fax machine.

The political calendar in Washington — where Republicans are occupied with a make - or - break debate over tax legislation — means there is little prospect of a dramatic breakthrough or angry walkout in Mexico City this week.

In today's UK market, the cap rate distribution curve has flattened out, consumer and wage inflation is out of synch, and investors are not getting paid enough to take core risk as there is little prospect for net operating income (NOI) growth in the current lease regime.

Looking forward, there appears to be little prospect of near - term growth in cereals exports, given the estimated 19 per cent fall in the 2004/05 winter crop to around average levels.

And there's little prospect of the messes dissipating anytime soon.

In response, there has been only a slight increase in the share of loans with fixed rates recently, suggesting that borrowers see little prospect of an increase in interest rates in the foreseeable future.

Given the strong growth in approvals, there is little prospect that the rate of housing credit growth will slow in the short term.

But joining the TPP also meant effectively renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), with the United States under onerous terms of entry that put Canada's other traditional defensive areas on the negotiating table (including Canadian content in media, intellectual property regime preferences, telecommunications ownership policies, and remaining investment restrictions), with little prospect of any valuable concessions from the United States.

The theological enterprise of criticizing scientific formulations would have little prospect for success if it were not that scientists themselves have come to recognize the limits of the concepts they have employed during the past three centuries.

Today there is very little prospect that any of our oldline denominations are in position to engage in such reform.

Many, both liberals and others, are convinced that the impulse itself is enervated and has little prospect of making further contributions to our religious and cultural life.

Their future lives, to say the least, had little prospect of worldly success or respectability; yet many already had responsibilities to wives, girlfriends and small children.

The temptation for young, ambitious, and educated Christians to convert to Islam for social and economic reasons is powerful, as Christians have little prospect of obtaining coveted positions in government and education, regardless of their credentials.

In our culture racial identity and attitudes based on it are so central that there is little prospect of becoming altogether free of them.

Pineapple and her classmates are likely to become literate, but they have little prospect of developing the skills to participate fully in American society.

They have little prospect of seeing their graph lines go up radically in a time of decline in the rate of population growth and in the face of numbers of other contrary societal forces.