To survive the libel action also demanded sheer determination, significant expenses (tens of thousands of pounds) prior to securing "no win, no fee" agreements and the stomach to face up to the bleak and enduring prospect of losing my home and livelihood.
We had great careers, plenty of short-lived relationships, but no enduring romantic prospects and no children.
"Wanda" isn't about some upper-middle-class suburbanite or hairy hippie hero; it's about a woman with no prospects, enduring abuse while trying to find a reasonable facsimile of freedom.
But the prospects of enduring political change through renewal are probably much greater than through liberalization.
A dark cloud has lifted, and though tensions and challenges clearly remain, prospects for enduring stability in the Balkans have greatly improved.
Death haunts the movie from the start, when a partner in crime expires in Santiago's arms; the existential race against time and the enduring despair at meagre prospects conflict with the prudent cares of family life, and Ulmer's hectic images combine with the bitter plot to leave the moral issues angrily in doubt.
People there have survived the monsoon living in tin shacks, but now face the prospect of enduring a freezing winter in their temporary shelters.
By the time the great snowstorm of October 2011 finally ended early Sunday, more than three million customers would find themselves without power and with the prospect of enduring several more days without it.
The explicitly stated purpose of the "zero tolerance" policy is to produce more family separations precisely because the prospect of enduring them — and, by extension, the extreme fear, anxiety and suffering they threaten to induce — might dissuade more people from trying to cross the border, including people fleeing other horrors at home.
Could just one number, performed weedily by Keira Knightley at the beginning of this romcom, cause your body to self-combust at the prospect of enduring 90-odd minutes of a movie obsessed with authenticity but as phoney as a Miley Cyrus dance routine?
Across 8,000 quake-ravaged square miles, which include some of Asia's most majestic and forbidding terrain, victims are facing the prospect of enduring a second consecutive summer monsoon in flimsy sheds, flood-prone and inviting to mosquitoes.
