Sentence examples for fair prospects from inspiring English sources

Bollin Ace (4.10) also has fair prospects on the same card.

The World Bridge Federation is making a strong effort, with fair prospects of success, for the game to be included in the Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, in 2006.

Despite efforts to repair the damage and a crash course in lip-reading, by Easter 1968 he had decided to quit: "I was an MP with a safe seat and fair prospects.

Equipped with a serious and gifted intelligence in the English tradition of nature writing, he invested every subject he chose with that aura, even when the setting was Greek politics under the Colonels – his second wife, Roya, was from Athens – or Blackpool's transvestite demi-monde (in the books Fair Prospects and The Antique Collector respectively).

There was a "fair prospect," Chief Justice Roberts went on, that the Supreme Court will ultimately reverse the Maryland decision.

Frémont's declaration would, he wrote, "alarm our Southern Union friends, and then turn them against us perhaps ruin our rather fair prospect for Kentucky".

If the case is dismissed for lack of standing, there is a fair prospect that the Supreme Court will never rule on the constitutionality of the law, a 2008 measure that broadened the government's power to eavesdrop on international communications.

He said there was a "fair prospect" that the Supreme Court would reverse the Maryland decision, which conflicts with rulings of the Virginia Supreme Court and of the United States Courts of Appeals for the Third and the Ninth Circuits on similar statutes in other states.

Snorting at a colonial governor's promise that "the fair Prospect of the security of your country [was now] being settled upon the most sure and lasting foundation," Adams nailed the hapless blowhard for double tautology ("the security, being secured upon secure foundations"), a classic instance of words being used "mearly for sound".

In July, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. wrote that there was "a reasonable probability" that the Supreme Court would address the issue this term in a Maryland case and that there was "a fair prospect" that it would rule as the appeals court panel had in the California case.

A flash of ill-temper when he was a teenager saw him ditched by Arsenal but there is now a fair prospect, 10 years on from the expulsion, that he will win his first England cap at some stage in the friendly with France.