When a person in a position of trust and responsibility lets people down, and particularly if the faltering is due to a deficit of character (the usual suspicion and assumption), the person is almost always disgraced and branded for life, without prospect of ever regaining a position of trust (if, that its, he were so presumptuous as to seek one, which he would not be).
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On the other hand, it would be equally naive to expect the suburbs to lend a helping hand without some prospect of reward.
Without the prospect of earning a profit, all activity above bare subsistence would cease (or would never have occurred) and mankind might still be in the caves.
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Without the prospect of any recovery, their losses are known.
Without the prospect of war with Iraq, the Rebublicans would have found themselves on the defensive about other issues, such as corporate scandals and the economy, to a much greater degree than they have so far.
If the U.S. finds a place for its nuclear waste to go, some fuel assemblies will have to be removed from casks and transferred to transportation packs, a dangerous enough task without the prospect of fuel rods ruptured or crumbling.
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And I hope voters will take them at their word that many of their friends and many of their neighbors would have been out of work, without the prospect of a lot of new jobs coming to town, manufacturing has taken a beating.
Other futuristic prototypes attempt to bring couples closer without the unpleasant prospect of making out with your cell phone.
She knows that within Kadima there are many members, ex-Likud renegades, who view without pleasure the prospect of serving the country from the opposition benches while their erstwhile Likud comrades enjoy power.
After admitting ten new countries, most of them considerably poorer than the existing members, Eurocrats are now contemplating without much pleasure the prospect that Romania and Bulgaria will join in 2007.
The prospect of life without Mr Kohl, an unmatched campaigner who has snatched victory in four successive general elections, seemed to them too dreadful to contemplate.
They must posit the prospect of improvement - without engendering too much fear by the apocalyptic nature of their pronouncements about the current set-up.
However, Ms Greenacre faces the prospect of getting married without her two bridesmaids and her flower girl because they were not able to travel to Birkenhead.
But also real and tangible achievement and progress for many who otherwise would have been kept down, unable to realise their potential, without much hope and with little prospect of advance.
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In the future we will have to depend on immigrants to make up our numbers, for without them Singapore will face the prospect of a shrinking workforce and a stagnant economy.
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Without its lead, there was little prospect of anyone else pressing the issue.
Liverpool now face the prospect of finishing the campaign without a trophy for the fourth successive season, with any hopes of success hanging on their Europa League efforts.
And I'm not just talking about women without insurance, who face the terrifying prospect, as you've heard, of having to pay the full cost of their treatment on their own.
The administration therefore faces the prospect of going to Copenhagen without domestic legislation in place, and of either committing itself to a numerical target (acceptable to the foreigners but not the Senate) or failing to commit itself to one (more acceptable to the Senate but not to the foreigners).
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It is the prospect of Suharto staying in power without a visible succession strategy.
Without a drastic alteration to lifestyles, the prospect of another 200m Americans bodes ill for our suffering planet.
Without a new nomenclature, these discoveries raised the prospect that textbooks could soon be talking about 50 or more planets in the Solar System.
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But that time frame now seems unlikely, analysts say, opening up the prospect that a new president is elected without a clear constitutional framework by which to govern, or checks on his powers.
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That left the club without any proposed sites to move to, and the prospect of staying at the County Ground site.
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Tilmon, Wallace and Shook all raised the prospect of air turbulence, which airplanes can encounter without warning.
That is why Ford is still hoping (with some prospect of success) to get through the year without having to ask for a handout.
Letterman's deal gives his show a distinct advantage over the likes of Conan O'Brien, Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel, who face the prospect of presenting an hour-long nightly television show without scribes to pen their monologues, sketches and other written material.
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.
"Without this facility, we would not only be faced with the depressing prospect of piling millions of tonnes of waste into the ground over the coming years, but we would also pay through the nose to do it, " said Cllr Matheson.
For both sides of the Atlantic, but particularly for growth-starved Europe, the deal offers the prospect of spurring growth, at least in the longer term, without compromising fiscal discipline.
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