Yet Syria offered them no prospect of earning a living: few Iraqis could get work permits.
Mr Clegg himself had said that there was "absolutely no prospect" of achieving a real-terms cut.
It was decided there was no prospect of tracking down suspects or getting sufficiently concrete evidence.
There really is no prospect of Mr Blair's government turning sharply to the left.
"There is no prospect that the DTA proceedings will be conducted with alacrity or certainty, " Waxman replied.
Mr Clegg said Labour was well aware there was "absolutely no prospect" of achieving a real-terms cut.
It has no prospect of attracting private foreign capital in the near future.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said Labour was well aware there was "absolutely no prospect" of achieving a real-terms cut.
The only way to motivate convicts with no prospect of early release was to feed well those who worked hard.
There is no prospect of the federal government riding to the rescue of Detroit by taking over its legacy costs.
Significantly, strong reciprocators will behave this way even if doing so provides no prospect of material rewards in the future.
Horrifying as these punishments might be to modern sensibilities, there is no prospect of their exercise in any Western country.
But Justice Minister Michael Wills dismissed the idea, claiming it would signal that there was no prospect of more fundamental reform.
Since they had not yet identified a suspect, they said there was no prospect of a prosecution within the time limit.
There is "no prospect" construction of a planned new nuclear power plant in Somerset will begin this year, union leaders have warned.
The government wants workers sacked for economic reasons to get up to 27 months' pay, but no prospect of regaining their jobs.
For as long as government suppliers continue to be unpaid and banks undercapitalised, the cash-starved economy has no prospect of moving again.
But Mr Kabbah came back with almost no money and, without control of the country's diamond fields, there was no prospect of getting any.
But after the meeting, President Hosni Mubarak said flatly that there was no prospect of peace so long as Mr Sharon remained in power.
Nick Clegg may have got his proposal for mass shareholding in this bank wrong, and I think there is almost no prospect of it happening.
We see no prospect of a speedy return to credible numbers.
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Of course, people asked such questions tend to exaggerate their willingness to pay more tax when they know there is no prospect of having to do so.
There is almost no prospect of the quotas being extended.
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Lenders have limited patience with funding such operating losses, and if there is no prospect for reducing them, then the company would be worth more to creditors dead than alive.
And my soundings this morning suggest there is no prospect of the Conservatives corralling enough votes from minority parties to outvote the combined forces of Labour and the Lib Dems.
With no prospect of credit to enable them to stay in business, and no one prepared to accept their letters of credit, many companies have nothing to repay their loans with.
"Until the base rate starts to increase, there is no prospect of savers seeing any meaningful increases on the paltry interest returns they are currently receiving, " said Andrew Hagger, of Moneynet.
So there is a reason to let them off the hook, if there's no prospect of winning the vote - hence if the Welsh Conservatives are there, it's going to be tight.
The GMC has now dropped the case, saying there was no prospect of proving dishonesty, and questioned why it was "silent for well over two years" before a formal complaint was made.
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