By any conceivable measure, including the ultimate prospect of achieving the goals exemplified by a single-payer plan, passing health reform in 2009 would be a huge victory for progressive values.
The effect was observed mainly among those with Universalistic values, which limits the ultimate prospects of transparency as a policy tool.
Although the ultimate prospect was of arriving safe and sound in paradise, the way there, so the Egyptians believed, was arduous and primed with any number of booby-traps.
Stunned into a state of fawning idolatry after Rita agrees to marry him, Gordon rationalizes away the glaring intellectual divide that separates them, lavishing upon his unlikely bride a lifetime of deferred adoration, a $25,000 checking account and — the ultimate prize — the prospect of a green card.
Then came the global financial crash, the impact of which we are still experiencing – with the ultimate irony that the prospect of a massive fine on Deutsche Bank is even being talked about as a last straw that might precipitate the next financial crisis!
Details of the proposed agreement were disclosed bit by bit, in a series of events that left the ultimate prospects for enactment of Medicare drug benefits uncertain.
Fellow comedian Bill Bailey is among those fans excited by the news, writing in the Guardian that it's "like the prospect of a great band getting back together; they're the ultimate comic supergroup.
Thus looms the prospect of a "neverendum".
Consider the prospect of a terrorist attack.
The prospect of a Convention Blvd.
