Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

However painful the process of leaving home for parents and for children the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

The prospect of going home is very appealing.

If history is a guide a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.

To get nostalgic about other people's music or even about your own makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.

Clearly some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country.

The prospects for a coherent hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year as the poor waterlogged gassy corpse called 'Evan Almighty' proved when it floated ashore recently. So there's a temptation to think too highly of Robin Williams's uneven but occasionally funny 'License to Wed.'