Example sentences for: prospect

How can you use “prospect” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • James K. Galbraith, a constant critic of the profession (and a frequent contributor to the American Prospect ), urges economists to emulate "vibrant humanities faculties" in which "departments develop viciously opinionated, inbred, sometimes bitter and tyrannical but definitely exciting intellectual climates."

  • Pan-Arabism dates back to the collapse of the Ottoman Turks in World War I, which paved the way for what the Greek Orthodox writer George Antonius in 1938 famously called the "Arab Awakening"--the prospect of Arab self-rule.

  • The prospect of e-voting is enthralling journalists (including Slate writers and ), causing governments to fret about digital signatures, and inspiring endless speculation about how online ballots will eventually revolutionize politics.

  • "[S]o extravagant is the American concept of 'freedom,' and so deep-rooted is the pollution of firearms of all kinds throughout the country, that there is little prospect that even this latest monstrosity will provoke a meaningful shift in public attitudes," the paper said.

  • With the introduction of the birth-control pill, the province’s birthrate dropped from the highest to lowest in the nation, causing conservatives to worry at the waning influence of the Catholic Church and the prospect that French-Canadians would drown in a sea of Anglos.


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