Sentence examples for off prospect from inspiring English sources

A hundred days after the horsemeat scandal broke, a détente in the battle between those with competing visions of our global food system would appear to be a far off prospect.

Retrenchment, in effect, becomes a noose, choking off prospects for growth.

Many Israeli analysts say that the regional turmoil precludes peace moves and territorial concessions in the near future, putting off prospects of a deal with the Palestinians.

The Obama administration has also squeezed off prospects for future coal projects, overhauling the system of fossil fuel leases on public lands.

Every time the economy has appeared to be on the verge of taking off, prospects have been thwarted by troubles at home (like housing) and abroad (like the European debt crises last year).

President Bill Clinton seemed to cut off prospects of a major tax cut by declaring that the surpluses should go toward saving Social Security first -- leaving very little room for anything else.

The Beatty period led to Ishtar, a disaster that killed off prospects of a Hollywood career, but a previous English-language film was Walter Hill's The Driver – a noir so obscure it is sometimes called a cult movie.

From Stewart Hosie, the SNP Treasury spokesman The last thing Scotland needs is a lecture from a Tory Chancellor whose talk of achieving a budget surplus is fatally undermined by his own failed austerity agenda that is choking off prospects for sustained growth.

So he sold off prospects in Oman, Egypt, Brazil and the Congo to focus on work in Qatar, Algeria and closer to home.

You might be working your buns off prospecting and thinking: I'm using all these power words, why are their eyes glazing over?

That is still a far-off prospect.