As she crossed the room, she saw a brunette at the bar who looked like a hopeful prospect.

More than three years into the American occupation, the new government is the most hopeful prospect on an otherwise gloomy horizon.

Many believe that one of the most hopeful prospects is an evolutionary process of change similar to that in Taiwan.

But that hopeful prospect is not reflected in the Bush Administration's initial reaction.

That in itself offers a hopeful prospect for American public life.

Yet it offers more hopeful economic prospects and less systematic repression.

And human missions to Mars would provide hopeful prospects, rich in adventure, for the wanderers among us, especially the young.

This seemed to offer some hopeful prospects.

Of the several jumbled close behind him, Coniston Water looked a hopeful prospect.

You gave us a very hopeful prospect.