Sentence examples for virtually no prospect from inspiring English sources

She had by then served almost 25 years of an indeterminate sentence with virtually no prospect of release.

The Republicans have only fifty-two votes, and there is virtually no prospect of them getting another eight.

When Mr. Obama came to office, three successive sets of international sanctions against Iran had had little effect, and there was virtually no prospect of getting a fourth.

Professor Xia, 53, must now find new work, with virtually no prospect that another Chinese university will dare to employ him.

Professor Xia must now fend for himself with "virtually no prospect that another Chinese university will dare to employ him," as you reported (news article, Oct. 20).

But despite this agreement on principles, there appears to be virtually no prospect that the 14 commissioners will get together to recommend applying sales taxes to the Internet.

North and South Korea appear to have virtually no prospects of production, but China has a number of oil-producing fields in the provinces of Sichuan, Gansu, and Xinjiang and in the Northeast.

With the 2002 Winter Olympics only 13 months away, Eldredge faces the prospect that he has virtually no chance of winning a medal in Salt Lake City unless he can consistently negotiate a jump of four rotations in both the short and long programs.

Chrebet had virtually no other National Football League prospects, but Weiss persuaded the Jets with some imaginative descriptions of other teams' interest in his client.

And, most of all, deregulation of European Union skies in 1997 opened up a virtually limitless prospect of flights, especially to provincial airports hungry for connections as prosperity spread to regional cities across Europe.

Cardinal Dolan did not mention speculation about his own prospects of becoming pope, and virtually no one asked him about it — even though there were at least 17 television cameras and 15 reporters at the Mass.