prospect of success

collocation in English

meaningsofprospectandsuccess

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prospect
noun
uk
/ˈprɒs.pekt/us
/ˈprɑː.spekt/
the possibility that something good might happen in ...
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success
noun
uk
/səkˈses/us
/səkˈses/
the achieving of the results wanted or ...
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(Definition ofprospectandsuccessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprospect of success

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But religiously driven behavior is often motivated independently of itsprospectofsuccess.
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It is precisely with such people that a mutually satisfactory reconciliation must be negotiated if long-term accommodation has anyprospectofsuccess.
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After all, they could have pursued a different strategy with someprospectofsuccess.
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Only massive enforcement as opposed to interpositionary peacekeeping could have had anyprospectofsuccessthere (and then, probably, a slim one).
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How, then, has it been brought forward with anyprospectofsuccess?
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Moreover, there was everyprospectofsuccess.
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What would have been theprospectofsuccessin a struggle waged under those conditions?
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The best chance of assessing theprospectofsuccessis to "have a go".
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However, it is realistic to say that, as matters stand at present, there is littleprospectofsuccess.
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Although they are irritating, they hold out the onlyprospectofsuccessin the longer term.
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It serves no one's interests if cases are brought with littleprospectofsuccess—least of all the victims of the alleged negligence.
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I come to the question of certifying those cases which have a highprospectofsuccessfor the purposes of legal aid.
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He must get down to the problem as a physical problem, one in which good mining practice offers the onlyprospectofsuccess.
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In my judgment there was no suchprospectofsuccessin an appeal against this judgment as would warrant proceeding with the appeal.
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So long as there was someprospectofsuccess, he clung to the possibility of striking back.
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In order that it may be done with theprospectofsuccess, it is to be modified after the holding of a constitutional conference.
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Of those seven, four had a reasonableprospectofsuccess.
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In modern conditions, a cause, however just, has scantprospectofsuccessunless it is backed by modern armaments.
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If the widow was a constituent of mine, she certainly would, and in that case he could make an application with everyprospectofsuccess.
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