"lower prospects" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to refer to a decrease in opportunities or chances for success. Example: Despite having graduated from a prestigious university, the current economic situation has resulted in lower prospects for finding a well-paying job in my field.
Regarding the effects of short stature on future expectations, 44.5% of the parents expected their child to have a lower prospect in the labor market as an adult (39% of boys, 48% of girls), and 39% expected their child to have a lower prospect of finding a spouse (77% of boys, 17% of girls).
In many ways, he's running a campaign that revives the old Southern strategy, practiced by Barry Goldwater and, more craftily, by Richard Nixon, of peeling disaffected white voters away from the Democratic Party with dog-whistle racism and a certain amount of sympathy for the lowered prospects of the working class.
The HIV/AIDS pandemic in Tanzania as elsewhere in the world remains a disease of great public health importance and a challenge to socio-economic development that among other things lowers prospects for attaining the millennium development goals (MDGs).
Even before the Sept. 11 terrorist onslaught shifted priorities to the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan, prospects for completion of the Lincoln Center project were overshadowed by rivalries between arts companies that share the center's campus.
Some have argued that the experiences of the last few months greatly lower the prospects of peace, that any attempt to deal comprehensively with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is misguided.
The moves are part of a strategy by the real estate investment trust to sell buildings with lower growth prospects and reinvest the proceeds in properties with higher rent growth or development potential.
Matrix said: We see lower growth prospects for Xchanging over the near to medium term relative to consensus and believe that investor concern about the group's expected poor cash performance in 2010 is likely to take some time to remedy.
While initial decisions occur within 3 or 4 months, rejected applicants who appeal decisions typically wait several years before a final decision is made, and evidence suggests that these delays lower reemployment prospects (Autor et al. 2011).
Lehman's leverage, he says, is still close to 30 to 1. Lehman's securities underwriting, trading and sales, and investment bank face sharply lower revenue prospects going into next year, just like every other major investment bank.
