• For indigenous communities around the world, climate change impacts are not a future prospect.

    UNESCO: Communication and Information

  • In the case of CalPERS, at least, such present problems -- and perhaps the future prospect of security-related sanctions being taken against select foreign firms -- is evidently beginning to translate into investors declining to subscribe to such offerings.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • In Virginia, his favorable rating is twenty-seven per cent, a fact that makes a statewide run for office in the near future a dim prospect.

    NEWYORKER: The House of Pain

  • The former Bury manager admits that he is balancing results against planning for the future with the prospect of taking on the job full-time in the summer.

    BBC: Walsh remains patient

  • Then again, it could be a stock with little prospect for future growth.

    FORBES: Is A Low P/E Ratio Always A Steal?

  • As one company after another turned in weak revenue results last week, analysts, investors and economists started raising concerns about the prospect for future profits.

    NPR: Earnings Report: Good Profits, Bad Revenues

  • Hence, the prospect of future compensation from retaining their positions is likely to be a significant influence on a majority of the board, quite possibly more significant than the lure of raising the value of their current holdings.

    FORBES: Zoltek Rebuffs Offers, But Quinn Isn't Going Away

  • For, while previously I saw time as a stretch of terrain that had to be covered, with the future as a distant prospect, hopefully a bright one, and never boring at any rate, now it is interwoven with our life here and in a totally different way.

    NEWYORKER: Total Recall

  • However, with the strong gains already clocked by investors this year, some stock strategists were moving in the opposite direction, raising warning flags about the prospect for future gains on a day when demand for Treasurys rose, nudging the yield on the benchmark 10-year note down to 1.95%.

    WSJ: Stocks Push Higher

  • The prospect of a future, real reduction in the conventional military threat facing Western Europe.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • He thinks that the realistic prospect for the future is a combination of nuclear and renewable energy as the best way to reduce carbon emissions quickly.

    CNN: Where to store wind-powered energy? Under water!

  • The prospect of a future powered by the sun and the wind is so appealing that it obscures a less charming fact: coal is going nowhere soon.

    NEWYORKER: Green Giant

  • This raises the worrying prospect of a future Indonesia that may remain largely intact politically, but is racked by unmanageable social unrest and shunned by foreign investors.

    ECONOMIST: Indonesia

  • For the rest of us who worry about the wisdom of America being the only nuclear power (actual or wannabe) that is systematically engaged in denuclearization, however, the prospect of a future strategic "Monad" is alarming.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Gates turns off the lights

  • "What we don't want is to create some vague prospect in the future that somehow comprehensive immigration reform that includes a pathway to citizenship will happen, you know, manana, " Mr Obama said, using the Spanish word for "tomorrow".

    BBC: Immigration reform: Obama sees deal within six months

  • "As we look towards the prospect of an independent future, we need to take action now to improve our profitability and cash generation, " said Suri.

    ENGADGET: Nokia Siemens to cut 17,000 jobs as part of global restructuring

  • There has to be at least the prospect in the near future of a programme of recapitalisation, of bringing these banks within a safe haven again.

    CNN: ECB issues ultimatum to Cyprus

  • "As we look towards the prospect of an independent future, we need to take action now to improve our profitability and cash generation, " Mr Suri said.

    BBC: Nokia Siemens to cut 17,000 jobs, 23% of its workforce

  • But the prospect of a near future in which scaffold-riding professionals are replaced by automatons doesn't appeal to everyone particularly window washers and the New Yorkers who romanticize them.

    WSJ: Window-Washing Robots Rise; Humans Balk

  • People I know are shell-shocked at the prospect of an unknown future in foriegn shores and with pain to endure for at least a decade, many envision never returning.

    BBC: Irish election: Enda Kenny claims opposition victory

  • But for those for whom prevention has not succeeded, the work of Dr Bolli and his collaborators and rivals brings hope that a heart attack will, in the future, not be quite the fearful prospect it is today.

    ECONOMIST: Stem cells and medicine: Repairing broken hearts | The

  • Significantly, strong reciprocators will behave this way even if doing so provides no prospect of material rewards in the future.

    ECONOMIST: Human behaviour

  • She says there is every prospect that the workforce of the future will be dominated by low pay and insecurity.

    FORBES: Six Ways to Embrace A Low Paid Future

  • First, privatisation in any form feels a fairly remote prospect at the moment, with the future structure of British banking yet to be decided by the Treasury, subject to final recommendations from the Independent Commission on Banking in September.

    BBC: Bank casino capitalism for all

  • Labour have also raised the prospect of some form of referendum in the future but, like Mr Cameron, the party's leadership oppose a direct vote on whether to stay or exit.

    BBC: MPs debate case for UK pulling out of European Union

  • It has no prospect of attracting private foreign capital in the near future.

    ECONOMIST: Let the people decide | The

  • But he said committing now to the prospect of an in-out referendum in the future would have "big costs" for the country.

    BBC: Vince Cable urges PM to avoid 'dangerous EU gamble'

  • Recent discoveries--and the prospect of new ones--sketch a bright future.

    FORBES: Really, Really Cheap Oil

  • "We apologise for those who are disappointed at not being able to visit the museum today but if we do not do this there there will be fewer exhibitions and galleries open to the public in the future, " said Alan Leighton, national officer of union Prospect.

    BBC: Strike closes British Museum

  • Second, in an effort to assuage American fears and reconcile it to the idea of the court, its allies have encouraged American officials to be full participants in the negotiations shaping the detailed rules that will govern the court's operations, despite the fact that it was clear there was little prospect of America ratifying the treaty in the foreseeable future.

    ECONOMIST: Tipping the scales of justice | The

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