Example sentences of "face the prospect " in BNC.
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| 1 | ATHENS ( AP ) — Greeks faced the prospect of new general elections next month after party leaders failed to form a government . |
| 2 | Britain faced the prospect of a winter without food and without energy , at the mercy of powerful unions and ineffective employers . |
| 3 | As a consequence of the difficulties of poverty in which many working-class children were raised , education did not often provide an escape route for them and many , particularly in towns like Jarrow , faced the prospect of juvenile unemployment . |
| 4 | The Mayor then faced the prospect of the defence arguing in open court that Ajdabiya was not autonomous , was indeed subject to the authority of Tripoli , while his prosecuting policemen argued that Ajdabiya was independent and sovereign . |
| 5 | Mr Logan and Mr Summerskill faced the prospect of financial ruin but would try to find resources to save the magazine . |
| 6 | Mr Logan and Mr Summerskill faced the prospect of financial ruin but would try to find resources to save the magazine . |
| 7 | They faced the prospect of an agonising premature death with anger and humour , stoicism and frustration , wisdom and stupidity . |
| 8 | Mathews , who otherwise faced the prospect of life imprisonment , had no option but to accept . |
| 9 | While such a policy may relieve the short-term burden of unemployment for the older men nearest retirement age , unfortunately our study showed that the majority of those in their mid- and late fifties , who did not have the option of becoming early retired , faced the prospect of very long-term unemployment , and found the experience very distressing ( Walker et al. |
| 10 | By the mid-1930s the Malthusian revival of the previous decade was over and opinion changed with the widely publicised discovery that the country faced the prospect of a declining population . |
| 11 | Furthermore , a battle was regarded by many as an invitation to God to intervene in human affairs , and God had the disconcerting habit of bringing defeat upon those who faced the prospect of victory with overconfidence . |
| 12 | In the years 1294–8 , therefore , Edward faced the prospect of warfare on four fronts : Gascony , Flanders , Wales and Scotland . |
| 13 | Saturated , and very cold , they faced the prospect of a night in the saddle amid inhospitable terrain . |
| 14 | Lorraine was in prison for 18 months , and when she was released she not only faced the prospect of rebuilding family life for her children , but also the pressure of having a husband still inside . |
| 15 | In Arkwright in my constituency , more than 200 people faced the prospect of an explosion because the coal board allowed the methane to escape . |
| 16 | In order to avoid automatic cuts , the summit negotiators faced the prospect of raising taxes and cutting expenditure , or of raising the Gramm-Rudman targets and thereby loosening the only form of discipline governing the budgetary process . |
| 17 | In the last week of October Moldavia faced the prospect of violence between the Moldavian ( Romanian ) majority and the small Gagauz minority living in the south of the republic . |
| 18 | Commentators warned that if the government 's absorbtion planning was inadequate or incorrect , then the country inevitably faced the prospect of spiralling inflation , high unemployment and housing shortages . |
| 19 | The surrender followed that of other Medellín drug cartel leaders [ see pp. 37957 ; 38001 ] who had accepted a government offer of immunity from extradition to the United States on drug and murder charges , and who faced the prospect of lighter prison sentences if they " confessed " to their crimes [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ] . |
| 20 | His ruling Nepali Congress party had come to power in May 1991 ( in the first free elections in 32 years — see p. 38193 ) promising to raise living standards , but now faced the prospect of defeat in local elections due in May and June . |
| 21 | John Major has been told by constitutional lawyers that he could ignore Parliament and use the royal prerogative to sign the treaty bill if he faced the prospect of defeat . |
| 22 | He warned that thousands of householders faced the prospect of years of planning blight . |
| 23 | York magistrates heard Dr Bromley , 48 , now faced the prospect of disciplinary proceedings by the General Medical Council , following the incident at his practice in York last September . |
| 24 | Investment criteria that are applied as a matter of course to every other company are in danger of being abandoned completely as the institutions face the prospect of being sucked in by the Government 's subtle propaganda . |
| 25 | ‘ It is important that mandatory repatriation is put in place before we face the prospect of another influx of boat people next year , ’ Sir David Ford , Hong Kong 's Chief Secretary , said . |
| 26 | There would be some opposition to American bases , he said , but most people face the prospect with equanimity . |
| 27 | We remember the pain and suffering of millions who have died throughout the ‘ Third World ’ , fighting for the most basic of human rights , and we reflect shamefully on the fact that it is only when the US and their allies face the prospect of their own children dying that this war is truly acknowledged . |
| 28 | The anticipated increase in the South 's population is the result of a high birth rate and , at present , a declining death rate ; thus despite some economic growth many poor LDCs face the prospect of static or declining per capita incomes . |
| 29 | They face the prospect of having to accept unskilled jobs at lower wages or of retraining , in either event , they may have to move to another part of the country . |
| 30 | Stuart Hall ( ‘ No new vision ’ , 17 April ) convincingly argues that we face the prospect of ‘ permanent ’ Conservative ascendancy rooted in the Thatcher ‘ revolution ’ . |