When prospects are dark and hopes are dim,

The future is very uncertain.

They're pretty hopeless.

They now added up to exactly zero.

Frankly, no. Not a chance in the world.

Hardly likely to happen, is it?

Yes, a very slim one.

It's hopeless, Pinocchio.

It's a desperate chance, but it's worth taking.

is dying right in front of us.

Crazy odds, but what can we lose?

Is it, perhaps, that this cause is too hopeless?

We'll search out their weaknesses. A forlorn hope.

Anchor He offers no hope of cleaning it up.

The rest of us decided to take our chances in the sunlight... small as those chances might be.

Anyway, the chances of it being granted are very slight.

A solution to this decades old conflict has proved elusive.

Mr Mayhew described you as champion of the hopeless cause.

Obviously, if the application for World Heritage is viewed from the economic perspective, a heritage will be taken as a golden bowl , while its future will look grim no matter how good it is now.

However, it was also noted that items continually held in abeyance had little prospect of serious consideration.

Prospects for sustainable development appeared farther away, as a massive corporate land grab accelerated daily.

It is felt that passage of the new Law on Religious Communities and Religious Groups makes resolution of this issue even less likely.

Because it's 100to1 shot because it's much more than line of duty because there's so little chance of us coming out of it I felt I ought to put up to you.

You know, of course, that your chances to herd me into your little flock were limited, because I'm not exactly sheeplike.

Even though the Governments make efforts in this field, estimates are that the prospects of quickly solving the problems of accommodation are weak.

Difficulties being encountered in reintegration of the Region s judiciary make chances of an early resolution of this situation unlikely.

However, the outlook remains elusive, as that sector is expected to be the one most affected by the federal tax changes mentioned earlier (see para.

Almost all the countries of that region are off track, and the prospects of achieving most let alone all of the Goals by 2015 are remote.

Making matters worse, concessions on either side appear to leave no impression on the other. On the contrary, they are usually met with lethal provocations that push any agreement even further away.

Unanswered questions abound. Of course, even in the face of this misery, we should not lose hope in agreements reached by diplomatic means but, realistically, the chances are dwindling every day.

Protracted displacement with little hope of solutions in sight remains the situation of millions of displaced persons worldwide.

The presence of approximately 44,000 former combatants in Monrovia, in an environment that affords little hope of finding a job, is a source of concern for stability and security in the capital in the short to medium term.

in the middle of the ocean.

You will see them in the crowd.

While statistically that may be the case, the possibility of such noble intentions being realized will continue to remain elusive, if current regional group voting practices are anything to go by.

Painstaking sifting and searching... until O'Brien began to wonder if the trail were cold... or too faint to follow.

If this opportunity to rebuild trust is squandered, it will be difficult, if not impossible, for Europe to address its fiscal, economic, and institutional deficits.

So pervasive has been the role of ICTs that there would be little hope of achieving the MDGs without significant upgrading of ICTs in developing countries.

Space, all alone.

Love like mist, covers blemishes

The situation in the territory, characterized by poverty, unemployment and violence, was deteriorating steadily, making slimmer any hopes placed by the Palestinian people in the road map.

However, there could be little hope of establishing an agreement to create a regional nuclear weapon free zone unless the nations of that region implemented and upheld existing agreements to which they were parties.

There were a lot of drifters in those days Of all the people

Suddenly, a ship appeared through the fog.

We'll have to.