Large numbers of young Mexican men have scant prospects for marriage or family in the United States.
If she stays she is trapped in a marriage and lifestyle which offers scant prospect of achieving personal happiness.
Most people are out of work with scant prospects.
Even the dissenters saw scant prospect for fundamental reforms.
Though termed a "preliminary" decision, there was scant prospect the foundation would reverse itself.
But the businesses have little relation to one another and scant prospects for synergy.
There are three other candidates with scant prospects.
With the terrible risks and scant prospects for payoffs, professional pugilists live on the edge.
Anything that even remotely appears to be a giveaway to the rich has scant prospects in a Congress controlled by Democrats during a political campaign.
Despite their efforts, the rebels have shown little capacity to attract new widespread support and there is scant prospect of a mass insurrection.