The driver finally gave up, leaving Mr. Yassin with virtually no raw materials for production and an almost certain prospect of a shutdown.
The certain prospect of spending a few days behind bars straight away made most of the probationers behave.Mr Kleiman suggests several other promising, non-macho approaches to curbing crime.
The oddity, however, is how little impact higher rates (with the certain prospect of more to come) have had on the financial markets, which would normally be expected to anticipate any economic slowdown.
Because of the promoter disclosure provisions, companies that do not come forward face an almost certain prospect of being found out and then being forced to pay the 20percentt penalty on top of the taxes owed and the interest.
However, assured by his tutor of his certain prospect of a first, the Foreign Office pressed for him to join in 1948, so that he never took his degree (his non-graduate status remaining a source of family amusement ever after).
With first semester just getting under way at most colleges, bringing with it the certain prospect of both academic and social pressure, The Times decided to undertake an experiment in quality control of the current offerings.
For hedge fund investors, many of whom will have negative returns this year, the almost certain prospect of having to take additional write-downs from unrecoverable assets at Lehman brings an extra level of concern.
In many ways, the protagonist's situation is worse here than in the Italian original, because any false move could put him in the hands of the immigration department, with the almost certain prospect of deportation.
DETROIT — General Motors, facing the almost certain prospect of a bankruptcy filing, said Friday that it had drawn another $4 billion from the Treasury Department, raising its total from the government to $19.4 billion.
Yesterday, undeterred by Mr. Bush's decision and a near certain prospect of failure, Mr. Boehlert and a bipartisan group of colleagues introduced House and Senate bills calling for exactly what the president rejected -- adding carbon dioxide to the list of power plant emissions to be cut.
Sketching in the outline of an aggressive new American foreign policy, the Bush administration today gave the nations of the world a stark choice: stand with us against terrorism, deny safe havens to terrorists or face the certain prospect of death and destruction.
