Sentence examples for scant prospects from inspiring English sources

We had more in common with a remote-places-of-the-Empire parvenue such as Doris Lessing: born in Iran in 1919, growing up on a bush farm in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe); then, after two failed marriages, running away to England with scant prospects, which was where we colonials with scant prospects ran away to then.

Given the scant prospects that any attempt to restructure the opposition will succeed — the last such meeting in Cairo in June ended in shouting and fistfights — senior opposition figures tried to smooth over any differences in their initial remarks.

Under those circumstances, www.sexless.com would seem to have scant prospects.

People with scant prospects at home got on a boat or an airplane and flourished in the U.S. and helped America flourish, too.

Here was an old-time metal bender, with scant prospects for growth and no way to make big profits in the cost-plus world of defense contracting.

It would be nice if Mr Obama could do the same, but there is scant prospect of it.History has built up unrealistic expectations of the presidency.

Foreign diplomats close to the talks see scant prospect of progress.The roots of the conflict lie in a failure to build the basis of a functional state.

They will be the biggest victims if the talks cannot be revived, and there seems to be scant prospect of that.

There was scant prospect of any change in the order of Serie A's top three teams before the end of this campaign.

In Brussels this is seen as playing to the nationalist anti-immigration gallery in Britain since there is scant prospect of any new members joining the EU in this decade.

The influence of the hardline Bennett, whose political base is the rightwing national religious constituency, raises scant prospect of a return to peace negotiations with the Palestinians, even at a time when Israel is under mounting international pressure.