Projects worth some $1.2 billion, including a new home for the Parliament after decades in a refurbished waterworks, were under way when unity suddenly became a concrete prospect.
White America, too, has a vested interest in seeing him as black it's certainly a more exciting, more romantic and more concrete prospect than the "first biracial president".
Over the years, however, my childish dream became a solid, concrete prospect for the future.
Like Sobhani, the returnees came of age in a post-Taliban era that dangled visions of change and freedom but offered few concrete prospects for the future.
Since no one knows the answers, American industries cannot see concrete prospects for gains, and so few are ready to help push the fast-track idea through Congress.
The imminent defeat of M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the result of shifting military and political dynamics that are presenting the most concrete prospects of peace in the vast, unstable central African nation for many years.
Because advanced prostate cancer is heterogeneous (Taylor et al, 2010), targeting so-called 'nodal' cancer genes (Lamb et al, 2006) overseeing multiple downstream pathways of tumour maintenance (Butcher, 2005) may offer concrete therapeutic prospects.
Those close to the original inquiry, led by Andy Hayman, a former assistant commissioner of the Met, say there was a lot of hearsay but little concrete evidence and little prospect of securing a conviction.
But they seem chiefly chosen for the extent to which they play up the US's howling cultural divisions – while the hourly blasts on Twitter compound the sense of an administration running on rhetoric and symbolism rather than any prospect of concrete achievement.
The lack of orchestration — despite pledges to the contrary from European Union officials Monday and a plea from the head of the International Monetary Fund to step forward with concrete plans — raised the prospect that the European Central Bank would need to help mop up the mess by cutting interest rates, a move hinted at by the E.C.B.'s president, Jean-Claude Trichet, last week.
What are the real prospects for concrete results coming from this treaty?
