Sentences with phrase «scant hope»

And although he enjoys running and trained hard this winter (mostly in the evening or during his lunch hour) he had scant hope of competing in the big indoor meets.

Women with few prospects for marriage in their own social circle had scant hope of financial security unless they found a way to make a match elsewhere.

But it offers scant hope of solving education problems on the scale that America needs.

Recognizing scant hope in this approach, the Faith and Order Commission meeting in Lund, in 1952, decided to appoint a new commission, «Christ and His Church in the Light of the Holy Spirit.»

Endorsed by Republicans four years ago, she'll continue on the Conservative line, though with scant hope of success.

But as there is no way to tell if caviar is farmed or «wild», the new rules offer scant hope for sturgeon in the Caspian Sea, where overfishing has reduced their numbers by 90 per cent in the past two decades.

Worse, a drop - off in the number of potential renters contacting leasing agents provided scant hope that occupancy would improve anytime soon at Arbor Mill, which is owned by Atlanta - based multifamily development and management firm Lane Co..

K2 is a more limited transit survey and has scant hope of finding a mirror Earth.

How Dennett lucidly explains the interplay between genetics and Darwinism lucidly may be seen in the summary that ends the chapter on the topic: «Ethical decision - making, examined from the perspective of Darwin's dangerous idea, holds out scant hope of our ever discovering a formula or an algorithm for doing right.

As researchers and policymakers turn attention and resources to boosting adolescent literacy, an analysis of students» performance on state and national tests holds out scant hope that schools will come close to meeting federal goals for reading achievement over the next decade.

However, a full value transformation will only be realised here with a necessary disposal of the electronic division — and no, there's still no sign of that yet — even if it's restored to profitability, there's scant hope of it ever delivering a comparable divisional return on capital.