Now the prospect of lower electric rates is keeping the company in place again.

Only the profoundly apologetic staff and the prospect of a classic pizza kept good humor intact.

Only the prospect of the Soviets' completing their Machine kept the American project going.

The prospect of that fight might keep them from planning any hostile move in the first place.

This prospect will keep prices depressed and tie up investment capital.

Better to wait until you have some solid prospects and a way to keep a wife.

Even after the company's expansion slowed in the early 90's, the prospect of overseas growth kept investors' hopes alive.

The prospect of escape was keeping his mind almost unnaturally clear, ready to note everything that might help him.

The new prospects for commerce and economic life may keep people in the peripheral regions.

The prospect of a new life ahead of them kept them going, energized.