Bo Xilai, formerly a strong prospect for inclusion on China's all-powerful Politburo, has cast a shadow over events.
On those numbers, Roberts is a strong prospect to return to the Senate even without major party preferences.
There is a strong prospect that a backlash against German-driven austerity policies will fill the European Parliament next year with a bumper crop of euro-skeptics and political radicals.
With a protracted battle for Ivory Coast's commercial capital a strong prospect, the UN and French peacekeeping forces have become increasingly strident in their support of military efforts to oust Mr Gbagbo.
And although it will not fund a case unless its legal advisers think the claim has a strong prospect of success, the funder recognises that some of the cases it backs will fail.
Labor would appear to have a strong prospect of securing Senate support for a proposal to beef up reporting requirements and advocacy on behalf of children in offshore detention.
Among these, many in the Labor Party now say, was Mr. Brown's decision in October to call off months of behind-the-scenes planning for a fall election when polls showed he had a strong prospect of winning a parliamentary majority.
Among his team-mates will be veteran road captain Mathew Hayman, Callum Scotson – a strong prospect in the time trial – and Meyer, who will back up from his track efforts to ride the road race.
The statement from Mr. Kumar, who is seen by many as a strong prospect for the 2014 elections, follows recent remarks by Raj Thackeray, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena leader, who said he would not support Mr. Kumar for the top job unless he changed his attitude.
Between games the coaches would adjourn to the second floor of a clubhouse to review progress and perhaps negotiate a little with their peers on possible trades for draft picks - Toronto in particular might feel that they can leverage their number three pick for a team that wants a strong prospect like Walker Zimmerman, say.
These virus supporters, who are known as "retentionists", argue there is a strong prospect that smallpox samples may already have been obtained by terrorist groups and that the Vector and CDC stocks will therefore be needed to help defend the world from bio-terror attacks.
