Sentence examples for insufficient prospects from inspiring English sources

Lastly, there is a more amorphous reason that might explain why banks are not lending, particularly to businesses: low productivity, or what Mr. de la Torre calls insufficient prospects.

But on Tuesday John Lawler, chief executive of the Australian Crime Commission, said in a statement quoted by The A.P. that the inquiry was being dropped for several reasons including "insufficient prospects of securing convictions".

A British Transport Commission report of 1955 included the canal in its list of "Waterways having insufficient commercial prospects to justify their retention for navigation".

Mercifully, the attack in Pathankot turned out to be a minor event, insufficient to heighten the prospect of war, though it dissipated any goodwill generated by the Modi-Sharif meeting.

Perhaps the most effective crackdown on extremism has been the one in Dresden, a city of 500,000 that shares many of the social problems afflicting the rest of eastern Germany, including high unemployment, insufficient housing and limited prospects for economic growth in the short and medium term.

But these concerns pale next to the prospect of insufficient funding.

Even if the chances of "strategic blackmail or nuclear attack" appear slim today, there is "insufficient certainty surrounding the prospect that it would be imprudent" to abandon Trident, argue the authors of the report.

A year later, charges against him of murdering two police officers, David Johnston and John Graham, were dropped after the director of public prosecutions said the evidence was insufficient to afford the prospect of a conviction.

The sale was considered a success by the Brazilian government, which had expressed disappointment after foreign banks -- Citibank, FleetBoston, HSBC and Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria of Spain -- pulled out of the auction last week, citing the prospect of insufficient returns.

"We have therefore concluded that there is insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction.

He added there was "insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction".