But he and New York City detective Stephen Louis Carella soldier on despite unpromising leads.
It would be folly for Washington to try to impose terms under such unpromising circumstances.
He began well, with plans to dispose of unpromising divisions and reorganise what was left.
And so, after its unpromising beginning, this ends as a rather beautiful book about Africans.
That showed how unpromising were Mr Bouchard's chances of ever becoming father of an independent Quebec.
She may, perhaps, find a less unpromising vein to explore in the long-dormant Israel-Syria negotiating track.
The plan deserves a chance if only because the alternatives of military action and inaction are so unpromising.
It is as much the Children Act as fashion that encourages social workers to keep unpromising families together.
Faced with such unpromising conditions, military contractors have little choice but to retrench.
If all else fails, and redefining an unpromising area seems impossible, simple use of the epithet "up-and-coming" should satisfy.
Mr Berlusconi, then, is setting off on the comeback trail from a lower and more unpromising point than ever before.
Given that reading is a fairly complex activity, MRI-Crit seems fairly unpromising.
FORBES: Neuroscience And Literary Theory: A Match Made In Nonsense
But the success of New Labour in traditionally unpromising territory suggests that the Exeter effect may spread beyond the city's medieval walls.
Life for this cartoon character, though, got off to an unpromising start.
Mr Graham has preached to congregations numbered in the tens and hundreds of thousands, in every continent and in the most unpromising places.
The 1983 novel, by Graham Swift, from which the picture has been adapted is a determinedly inward-looking work: unpromising material for a film.
Killing off unpromising trials and then burying the results, while publicising the data from more successful experiments, is, however, a much more dubious practice.
Under these extremely unpromising conditions, Ford achieved a successful presidency, one that enabled the country to survive the blunders of both his predecessor and successor.
But despite all that, this industry also brought its communities the hard gifts of solidarity, resilience, and creativity even in the most unpromising of circumstances.
It is hard to fathom now what a discouraging, dismal decade the 1970s were, how unpromising and cramped the outlook was for liberty and democratic capitalism.
Both the Broadway and the off-Broadway production try to substantiate an unpromising bit of literary fluff, highlighting the poem's stale stereotypes and its lack of plotting.
Somehow, out of the unpromising material of small, disturbed lives, Suleiman has made a bone-dry comedy dedicated to the precarious border between the hapless and the hopeless.
However, the long-term prospects for growth in chip-making look unpromising.
Under Mr. Obama we are not to embrace the Iraqis, and claim the victory we won there and the decent democratic example we implanted on so unpromising a soil.
Sending goods round to the east coast, where a different longshore union has long since accepted many of the technologies that are at issue in the west, is also unpromising.
ECONOMIST: A battle on the docks would be bad news for American business
Successful men with learning difficulties such as dyslexia, autism and attention deficit disorders, including some she met as children, explain how an unpromising start can sometimes act as a springboard.
But prodigies have a way of surviving unpromising beginnings.
Not content to take a stake in a company and push for management change or asset realization strategies, Carl Icahn is increasingly submitting tender offers for companies, with recent deals showing unpromising results.
There are unpromising precedents on this score: in countries such as Rwanda and Bosnia (remember Srebrenica?), timid forces of international peacekeepers have been rendered helpless, or even clobbered, by sides determined to fight on.
Although such realignments are fairly common in Sri Lanka, the current epidemic of political manoeuvring renders the immediate prospects for stability, or for progress towards a negotiated solution to the civil conflict, unpromising in the extreme.
应用推荐