poor prospect

Example Sentences

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The neighbor sounds like a poor prospect, so Miss Manners suggests directing the instruction to your son.

From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2020

And if war was a poor prospect, peace talks weren’t a great option either.

From Time • Jan. 11, 2013

But over-indebted Britain is a poor prospect in this regard.

From Economist • Jan. 27, 2011

To Salvadora's father, Dr. Luis Henri Debayle, Nicaragua's top surgeon, the grandnephew of a celebrated bandit seemed a poor prospect for a son-in-law.

From Time Magazine Archive

Putnam wrote a labored article to the effect that it was both feasible and desirable to hold the West, but the character of his arguments shows that there was then a poor prospect of success.

From Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall of federalism by Ford, Henry Jones