Employees with high potential can be assigned mentors where there are limited prospects of promotion but the organisation wants to retain their services.

With humble backgrounds and limited prospects, the diaosi face daily struggles in an ever more competitive society in which urban house prices stretch ever further out of reach.

With tuition fees of up to 9,000 a year, and living costs in addition, today's students are well aware of their debts when they graduate, perhaps still with limited prospects.

Flood's view of his role as a fiscal watchdog coincided with the city's limited prospects at the start of the 1970s.

Part of it was purely internal in nature: for instance, the soldiers challenged the promotion system, with its limited prospects for advancement.