| That gave them a chance and all they lacked was the ability to dominate less experienced opponents. |
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| Half of the class has a chance at passing the test, and that is a charitable estimate. |
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| Powers had no chance to evade it, and bailed out as his U-2 spun down to earth. |
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| I piped up my objection, but it was the canonical term and there was no chance I would succeed in changing it. |
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| I remember vividly getting the chance to meet Dr. buss and talk with him after arriving in Los Angeles as a rookie. |
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| This means that even women who are not employed in factories will get the chance to burnish career-building skills. |
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| Unlike Bond, constantly thwarting Soviet villains, Burlington never got a chance to flex its muscle. |
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| On the other hand, this prize does afford us a chance to broaden our horizons beyond the borders of whatever country we live in. |
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| But at least in Moscow, a bribe or a good connection stand you a fighting chance to get what you need. |
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| Lastly, the re-opening of diplomatic ties between Havana and Washington gives brazil a chance to push for changes in Cuba. |
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| The gosling's best chance at surviving the jump is to bounce off the cliff on its soft belly. |
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| Voters will have the chance to see the incumbent and her opponent in a series of three debates. |
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| Practitioners recommend that Botox should start as early as our 20s so that wrinkles do not have the chance to form. |
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| The only major difference between Trotsky and his fellow Bolshevik leaders was that he never got the chance to wield total power. |
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| Only then would a racer likely get a chance at a World Cup berth, from the very back of the start list. |
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| No, the only chance we have is for news outlets to recognize their awesome reality-creating power and wield it benevolently. |
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| King George VI begged him to consider what a blow it would be to England should the Belfast be hit by a chance bomb. |
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| But I remain in prison on these baseless allegations while waiting for the chance to prove my innocence. |
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| What happens if an automaker offers him the chance to reinvent an iconic marque? |
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| Clinic Director Pleiter thinks giving psychiatric patients a chance at assisted suicide is important. |
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| The 21 percent of students whose parents are immigrants will have less of a chance to assimilate. |
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| But here was the chance to save not just this painting, but tens of thousands of artworks. |
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| By the time the armistice was signed in 1918, a British woman aged 16-32 stood only a one-in-ten chance of marriage. |
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| The cameraman, Anton, had spent the night in a single cell without any chance to let his station know where he was. |
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| Malone first met Anderson by chance over a decade ago following the release of the cult hit Donnie Darko. |
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| Is it true that you also turned down the chance to audition for the Anastasia Steele role in the Fifty Shades of Grey movie? |
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| The firefighters did not want the ambulatory passengers to chance onto an electrified rail or encounter some other hazard. |
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| So students, and faculty and alumni, will now get a chance to tell those stories, to tell them in urgent and powerful ways. |
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| With 90 seconds left it, was 94-91, the building was aflame, and the Thunder were one stop away from having a chance to tie it. |
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| Carlos hit the ball so hard that gravity never had a chance to damp down the aerodynamic motion. |
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| This was a late request and by the time the Senate adjourned not all 100 senators had had a chance to sign off on it. |
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| An accession agreement with Europe represented a chance for this struggling, isolated nation to become part of the modern world. |
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| But even if you did have the chance to adapt them into films, would you even want to, especially after making two trilogies? |
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| Xenohistory and sociology was her passion and it was rare that she was given a chance to explore it. |
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| If you are free tonight, is there any chance you could join me for dinner? |
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| The lawyer advised me to drop the case, since there was no chance of winning. |
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| How many companies get the chance to flail around for 6 years and then get a second kick at the can? |
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| In the coming weeks, Albertans will get a chance to kick the tires of the party leaders, their platforms and local candidates. |
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| The man firing the gun turned his weapon on the larger target, giving Jenna the chance to pull out of the kill zone using the Suburban as cover. |
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| It is estimated that about 5,000 refugees are waiting in the harbour town Calais to find a chance to get to England. |
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| It is upon the ideas of 'repeated experimentation' and the law of averages that many of our notions of chance are founded. |
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| Gas was found by chance in a water well near Hamburg in 1910, leading to minor gas discoveries in Zechstein dolomites elsewhere in Germany. |
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| There is the opportunity for Apple to be level-handed and fair, and there is the chance for them not to be. |
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| As a student in 1954, Penrose was attending a conference in Amsterdam when by chance he came across an exhibition of Escher's work. |
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| Genetic drift may therefore eliminate some alleles from a population due to chance alone. |
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| Now we are to consider that our bright ideal of a literatus may chance to be maimed. |
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| The chance to participate in the economic success of technological inventions was a strong incentive to both inventors and investors. |
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| A chance cache of tablets from Vindolanda in Britain gives us a glimpse of some supply transactions. |
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| If by chance you notice the fine, almost sweet maltiness of the aroma, and the brisk, dry, mineral quality of the flavors, even better. |
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| For the lower classes, however, the anniversary was a chance to pit disorder against order, a pretext for violence and uncontrolled revelry. |
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| Interpreting the text in the light of humours reduces the amount of plot attributed to chance by modern audiences. |
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| Research is showing that scientists are taught various heuristics that tend to harness chance and the unexpected. |
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| The composition of Dido and Aeneas gave Purcell his first chance to write a sustained musical setting of a dramatic text. |
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| In 1918, as the war neared its end, Holst finally had the prospect of a job that offered him the chance to serve. |
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| In June 2001 John sold 20 of his cars at Christie's, saying he didn't get the chance to drive them because he was out of the country so often. |
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| A break point occurs if the receiver, not the server, has a chance to win the game with the next point. |
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| A mouth guard is important to protect the teeth and gums from injury, and to cushion the jaw, resulting in a decreased chance of knockout. |
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| Expert players can anticipate the opponent's shot a few tenths of a second before the average player, giving them a chance to react sooner. |
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| The best dartboards have the thinnest wire, so that the darts have less chance of hitting a wire and bouncing out. |
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| Others are designed to retract slightly on impact to lessen the chance of bouncing out. |
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| However, Katich had already twice flirted with dismissal, saved only by chance both times. |
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| Langer played some blistering strokes off Giles' bowling in particular, but survived a sharp chance to Marcus Trescothick at first slip. |
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| Nottingham was generally the better side and Sheffield sometimes played with more players to give them a greater chance of victory. |
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| Every two years the Olympics and its media exposure provide unknown athletes with the chance to attain national and sometimes international fame. |
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| In 2010, the Olympic Games were complemented by the Youth Games, which give athletes between the ages of 14 and 18 the chance to compete. |
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| Also the only time that lower division clubs got the chance to play Super League opposition was in the early rounds of the challenge cup. |
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| Most American experts gave Benn little chance against the hard punching challenger. |
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| Later that year he was given the chance to race a Lola T570 Formula 3 car at Silverstone. |
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| An important factor in his decision was the chance to work with David Richards, the BAR team principal. |
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| He lost the chance at winning a fourth race when his 350 AJS failed with a broken gudgeon pin whilst leading. |
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| However, Taylor allowed Hamilton only one chance to win the match when on a 60 finish. |
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| Seagoing adventure and a chance to see the world also appeal to many seafarers. |
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| We use persuasion and our powers under the law to give everyone an equal chance to live free from fear of discrimination, prejudice and racism. |
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| At the end of the clash, they were both given the chance to make a closing speech. |
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| Those who were still queuing when polls closed were not denied the chance to vote. |
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| While those held in slavery in their own region of Africa might hope to escape, those shipped away had little chance of returning to Africa. |
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| Despite this, communications problems and questionable command decisions cost Germany the chance of a more decisive outcome. |
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| He must never wait until attacked because he then loses the chance of acting. |
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| The chance that such a reshuffle occurs between two alleles is inversely related to the distance between them. |
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| If this was going to be MSTies' final chance to see their beloved show, the hope was that they would be able to go out with a bang. |
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| Tournier's Robinson chooses to remain on the island, rejecting civilization when offered the chance to escape 28 years after being shipwrecked. |
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| He did not meet Sylvia until a chance encounter at a dinner party in December. |
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| The album gave each member of the group a chance to write in his own way, as well as composing songs together. |
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| Daltrey spotted Entwistle by chance on the street carrying a bass and recruited him into the Detours. |
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| In addition, 2 people were asked to pay compensation and 1 person was offered the chance to pay a combination of fiscal fine and compensation. |
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| This update offers customers the chance to buy and rent films from the Sky Store. |
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| I shall plunge into the Thames where there is least chance of my being snatched from the death I seek. |
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| In 1922, he did his matura by way of a second chance education and finally joined the University as an ordinary student. |
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| The losing boats from each heat may be given a second chance to qualify through a repechage. |
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| An oligarchy is different from a true democracy because very few people are given the chance to change things. |
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| Another punishing round of chemo is a necessary evil if Lisa is to have a fighting chance against the cancer. |
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| No chance in hell, even if it was a Gurney Eagle engine. The only way you can get those sort of neddies out of a 302 Windsor would be boost. |
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| The chance of seeing remarkable wild animals while waiting quietly on the riverbank is a major part of why we do it. |
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| There's also a greater chance that the shot will miss the guard entirely because of the greater accuracy required to make the shot. |
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| To continue playing when a team has no realistic chance of winning can be seen as a breach of etiquette. |
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| Minutes from the War Cabinet meeting were not sent to the King until 28 February, so that he did not have a prior chance to object to the plan. |
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| Peeling from the nonstem end is actually a bit easier and reduces the chance that those annoying, stringy fibers will stick to the banana. |
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| Gold sovereigns, pistols, spectacles and other personal items have been found by scuba divers by chance over the years. |
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| A 1999 study on the decline of polecats in this region indicated the species has little chance of surviving there. |
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| In addition, it provided the only opportunity to view specific works of art, and possibly the only chance to hear certain music. |
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| She would probably jump at the chance to show everyone how to save an obscene amount of money with an obscene amount of coupons. |
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| Few gave the Swans, struggling for their lives at the bottom of Division Two, any chance of causing an upset against the league leaders. |
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| Two minutes after the break Peter Cormack took his chance to put Liverpool ahead. |
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| This gave Rush and his colleagues another chance of European football, this time in the shape of the Cup Winners' Cup. |
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| This proved to be so successful that Reardon was offered the chance to tour it again as a professional. |
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| This would be favourable in a situation where there was a high chance of a rope being cut. |
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| When the brick would otherwise break, the straw will redistribute the force throughout the brick, decreasing the chance of breakage. |
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| Furthermore, it is a common practice to forest used peat bogs instead of giving them a chance to renew. |
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| Cuttlefish are indeterminate growers, so smaller cuttlefish always have a chance at finding a mate the next year, when they are bigger. |
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| By surviving the rigors of a life on the wing, birds earn another chance to pass on their genes. |
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| These systems do have a chance of breakdown per unit of time, that increases from the moment they begin their existence. |
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| Avoiding fishing in spawning grounds may allow fish stocks to rebuild by giving adults a chance to reproduce. |
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| Possible reserves are attributed to known accumulations that have a less likely chance of being recovered than probable reserves. |
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| Prospective resources have both an associated chance of discovery and a chance of development. |
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| But Oquedo could not resist the chance to make battle with such favorable odds. |
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| John immediately threw England's weight behind Otto, and Philip now saw his chance to launch a successful invasion of England. |
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| The results of the final examination affected the seniority allotted to each cadet and his chance of future early promotion. |
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| In other words, a submarine had less chance of finding a single convoy than if it were scattered as single ships. |
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| The destruction of submarines required their discovery, an improbable occurrence on aggressive patrols, by chance alone. |
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| The great majority of military historians have opined that it had little chance of success. |
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| When it was finally released late in the day, its chance of success was greatly reduced. |
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| This eventually received the support of the Spanish Crown, which saw a chance to enter the spice trade with Asia through this new route. |
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| A controversy that has occupied scholars for more than a century concerns whether Cabral's discovery was by chance or intentional. |
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| Both are risky and dangerous, and gave an individual the chance to make many decisions of their own accord. |
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| The probability that these changes could have occurred by chance is virtually zero. |
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| Pickering reported a similar experiment in which they tested 36 subjects over 23, 384 trials which did not obtain above chance scores. |
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| A total of over 12,000 guesses were recorded but Garrett failed to produce above chance level. |
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| This is used to reduce the chance of confusion between ATC and the aircraft. |
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| This chance meeting between a pilot and the Chief Ambulance Officer for Cornwall was to prove fortuitous. |
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| Laura gets her chance in a dramatic storm and shipwreck, and helps save the island. |
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| In hindsight this was only a legalistic charade which had little chance of holding up in a court of law. |
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| The more traditional of these offer boys and girls the chance to learn and play many sports. |
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| Nipper Read then secretly interviewed each of the defendants, and offered each firm member one chance to come onto the side of law and order. |
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| He tried to claim the kingship, but with no support and no chance of a coronation in Pavia. |
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| The coalition's main chance came in 62 BC, when the Greek cities rebelled against Roman rule. |
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| They both got a chance to present and defend their points of view, face to face, with no filtering or interference from others. |
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| He took a hostile view of those historians who stress the workings of chance and contingency in the workings of history. |
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| Pepin had no chance to respond as he grew ill and died within a few weeks after Waifer's execution. |
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| They have suffered persecution under Joseph Stalin and after 1990 were offered a chance to get back to Norway. |
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| For example, a shared language gives people the chance to study and work internationally, not just being limited to the same cultural group. |
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| Ukraine's secession ended any realistic chance of the Soviet Union staying together even on a limited scale. |
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| The herald read the accusation out loud and gave the defendant one last chance to confess. |
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| In the German revolution of 1848, he was given a chance to make these views known when he was elected to the Frankfurt National Parliament. |
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| Of the three successor states, Epirus and Nicaea stood the best chance of reclaiming Constantinople. |
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| To add to this, a soldier did not have a good chance of surviving a wound that needed specific, specialized, or knowledgeable treatment. |
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| Both of these methods left the bone immobilized and gave it a chance to heal. |
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| Juan and Alfonso escaped abroad, Guillen was tried but given the chance to repent. |
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| He saw the chance for this much needed new friendship in Charles of Viana, John's elder son. |
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| But it's the rare chance for above-tree line skiing that draws backcountry powderhounds to the gulf again and again. |
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| They moved for jobs, better education for their children and the chance to vote and participate in society. |
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| Now the greater efficiency of Dutch shipping had a chance to be fully translated into shipping prices, and the competitors were left in the dust. |
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| On the other hand, epistemic mood describes the chance or possibility of something happening. |
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| If there was even the slightest chance that the army could hold out, Ebert intended to recommend against ratifying the treaty. |
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| Mame Diouf missed a chance to put the game to bed when he fired straight at Carson. |
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| With no chance of regaining his judicial posts, he instead returned to Parliament, where he swiftly became a leading member of the opposition. |
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| But if in dropping the brick, there is a good chance of injuring someone, the person who drops it will be reckless. |
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| Its opposition may give the lower chamber a chance to reconsider or even abandon a controversial measure. |
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| The 1924 election was Asquith's last Parliamentary campaign, and there was no realistic chance of a return to the Commons. |
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| Ironically, having been given his chance by the belief that Gladstone's bill had gone too far in 1866, Disraeli had now gone further. |
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| Repeated occupational exposure to sulfuric acid mists may increase the chance of lung cancer by up to 64 percent. |
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| But for many of these children the factory system meant quite literally the only chance for survival. |
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| His showrooms in London gave the public the chance to see his complete range of tableware. |
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| This effectively removed any chance of a Factories Regulation Act being passed before Parliament was dissolved. |
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| Nowadays some show mines exhibit a vintage pit railway and offer a chance to experience a mantrip into the mine. |
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| Despite this, moderation of consumption is still recommended to mitigate chance of throat and stomach cancers. |
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| A resupply gives you the chance to refill your fuel bottle as well as your food bag. |
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| Discovered by chance by his friends, De Quincey was brought home and finally allowed to go to Worcester College, Oxford, on a reduced income. |
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| A chance meeting at the Royal Academy in 1869 was one of the few occasions they came into personal contact thereafter. |
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| The battle denied him any chance to be a chieftain, and both he and his horse are headless in accounts of his haunting of the area. |
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| I'll have one chance to show them that's no longer true. One chance... and if I stumble, I'll not get a second. |
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| A lack of match sharpness was perhaps to blame for Rooney squandering England's best chance after 27 minutes. |
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| She missed on sixies, and then it was my turn, my last chance to beat her and claim the championship. I selected my spot, tossed the jacks. |
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| You men have had baths, while Aunt Hilda and I haven't had a chance to get clean for fear of waking you slugabeds. |
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| It's not my job to straighten out his every mess, especially since he seems to like playing the wise guy and smarting off every chance he gets. |
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| If the burning snuff happens to get out of the snuffers, you have a chance that it may fall into a dish of soup. |
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| This is a great outline. Fantastic. If yours doesn't stack up, you won't get a chance to look at it. |
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| The two brigades at either end of the Boer lines had lost no chance of pushing in, and now they had come within striking distance. |
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| England still have a chance of winning tomorrow if they can get India out before stumps today. |
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| Teams playing in those subregionals welcomed this news because it eliminated the chance of playing against a home team. |
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| There's only a teensy chance that I'll be able to make your party, as I'm up to my eyeballs in work. |
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| I never miss a chance to make an allusion to their similarity. |
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| If he does, there is a chance for a limited, and relatively undamaging, ruling that hews closely to the facts of this case. |
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| By mere chance in appearance, though underlined with a providence, they had a full light of the infanta. |
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| Access courses meet a very real need for a second chance to get into higher education. |
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| No, you are going to ruin any chance you have and give us a bad name. |
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| Despite taking the course as an extra-curricular addon, they did so well teachers decided to offer them the chance to celebrate in style. |
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| The match had been touted as a chance for utu after the 1999 and 2007 All Blacks World Cup defeats. |
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| If you don't do your warm-ups properly you have a greater chance of injury. |
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| We had no waterbags. We lived on the veldfoods that quite by chance I had learned to pick out by keeping an eye on the bearers. |
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| The chance to meet one's wombmate, possibly for the first time since the umbilical cords were cut, is irresistible. |
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| There's just a faint chance that the weather will improve by tomorrow. |
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| If Assemblywoman Loni Hancock gets her way, Golden State voters will have a chance to use any or all of those options at election time. |
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| The youngest should speak first, so if I chance In this case to speak youngly, pardon me. |
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| Certain professors see a chance to benefit from this associative taint. |
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| What's important is the chance to do something he loves, plunk away at his washtub bass. |
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| Today O'Meara is mob-handed in the Wokingham but I think easily his best chance is with Watchable, who has looked an improved horse this season. |
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| Grab a glimpse of the science behind Doctor Who, go back in time to see the dinosaurs and sign up for the chance to design your own water rocket. |
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| Weblogs there offer Iranians, for the first time, the chance to have their private opinions published in a public forum. |
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| If I have the chance to fight for the title again against Weidman or another fighter other than a Brazilian, I would fight for sure. |
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| They meet by chance at a cafe on the titular Parisian street, located in a well-heeled Right Bank neighborhood near the Arc de Triomphe. |
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| The tour also gives Wendi the chance to return to the Empire for the first time since she was a child. |
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| Westmeath looked to have blown a glorious chance when Ger Heavin drove a 45-metre free just wide with the last kick of the ball in normal time. |
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| To give them a taste of the action novice surfers also have the chance to hire a wetsuit and board for as little as PS20 a day. |
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| Don't whinge about any party that has not yet been given a chance to show how our country should be run. |
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| Then on to an aeroboat swamp ride, a popular weekend activity for locals and chance to scare some swamp creatures. |
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| It was combined with an aerodynamically advanced Sikkens coatings system to give the vehicle the best possible chance of finishing first. |
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| We had a chance to blur it, but you really need to feel the pain. |
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| All the same, it gives one a chance to survey the bookshelf of work. |
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| Readers have the chance to win one of 10 exclusive prize packs which include a Wild windbreaker jacket and baseball cap. |
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| During the airboat tour, veterans had a chance to see and learn about the wetlands of west-central Florida. |
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| What one did oneself was all chance and shallowness, and no profession seemed wispier and less needed than that of the poet. |
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| Nicotine replacement therapy can help with withdrawal symptoms, and may double your chance of success. |
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| But instead it squandered its chance with some dodgy CGI, even wobblier dialogue and that fat bloke off The Full Monty. |
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| It went up so fast, I didn't even have a chance to hold my flag up,'' said an astonished Alan Alegar, 47, of Granada Hills. |
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| How large must a word list be in order to have a reasonable chance of including words starting with every letter of the alphabet? |
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| Perhaps by chance that was the same year Nancy bought the bushmaster. |
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| The Hoops supporters went wild when Portuguese striker Amido Balde scored with their first chance of the game at a packed Aviva Stadium. |
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| Rommel believed that Germany's best chance was to stop the invasion at the shore. |
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| By chance Reece met the actor Laurence Olivier, who arranged lessons with the National Theatre's voice coach. |
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| Some other electoral systems can end up giving a greater chance of victory to a candidate perceived as having extreme views. |
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| Goethite as a mineral is a relatively soft iron based material, which increases the chance of physical damage to the structure. |
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| Almost all European cultivars were chance seedlings or selections originating in western Europe, mostly France. |
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| There is a chance a tropical cyclone could regenerate if it managed to get back over open warm water, such as with Hurricane Ivan. |
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| Most of the colleges she applied to were ones she thought she had a good chance of getting into. |
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| He had nothing better to do than to take chance for his guide, and to go at a venture through the streets of the city. |
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| The Baggies had offered little threat until the 28th minute, but when their first chance came it was a clear one. |
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| There's a chance this is just a viral blip, an intermittent spike of low-level virus that just happens in people on successful HIV treatment. |
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| Here's your chance to bone up on the segregating, or crediting, or whatever you call it. |
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| Instinctively, before they had a chance to open their mouths, she knew not only that they were bores but the quality of their boringness. |
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| Such a man had no chance whatever in this flowery and bowery little suburb. |
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| Before you have a chance to react, it's ricocheted from winger to centreman to net. |
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| The great thing was it gave him a little bit of freedom and me the chance to sneak a cheeky nap. |
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| It was only after Yakubu sliced another chance into the side netting, a bad miss by the former Everton striker, that Norwich came to life. |
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| Only well-known retailers have a chance to bypass the banks and issue their own commercial paper. |
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| The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter. |
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| You had better crack the books if you want to have any chance of graduating this year. |
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| She's cruel-hearted, Judith. Every chance she gets, she makes horrid remarks about the pain I'm going to have to endure. |
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| The problem is that no one can throw a die twice in precisely the same way, and this is why dice is a game of chance and not a skill. |
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| He is done, after three falls there is no chance he will be able to finish. |
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| Damn...did some lucky guy manage to donkeypunch her before I had a chance to fulfil my longtime fantasy? |
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| When I chance to be angry, it is in the earnestest manner that may be, but yet as briefly and as secretly, as is possible. |
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| If he was there, he got free coke and the chance to eye-fuck pretty teenage girls. |
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| But there's a right smart chance of middle-aged famblies and even a few toler'ble new famblies in this here community. |
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| This essential medicine will give him a fighting chance against the disease. |
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| Before Venita, who could chatter for England, had a chance to hand over too much more information, Marty jumped in defensively. |
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| He forfeited his last chance of an early release from jail by repeatedly attacking another inmate. |
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| Whether deserved or not, the free gave Cresswell the chance to cover himself in glory with a shot on goal after the siren. |
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| I realized that speaking up now might backfire on me later, but there was a slim chance it could frontfire, too. |
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| Like everyone else who lifts weights, I wanted to maximize my gains and give myself the best chance to succeed. |
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| It was garbage time, really, but it was a chance to get Corey some playing time, and Pedersen was out of pitchers anyway. |
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| He had glugged that glass of wine before she got a chance to introduce herself. |
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| At last the goblins had a chance to rid themselves of one of the troublesome defenders, and two goblin warriors snatched the opportunity. |
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| That Goliath is so big and strong, the little man will never stand a chance against him if he on his wrong side. |
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| In terms of risk to this group, heavy consumption of seafood generates a 1 in 18 million chance of causing cancer. |
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| Because he throws so many hellacious punches, he has the chance of knocking out any fighter on any given night. |
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| This gives Atlantic mosses, ferns, lichen, and liverworts the chance to grow. |
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| Crouch had earlier hopelessly miskicked an excellent volleyed chance from eight yards out after a delightful Pennant cross. |
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| According to Aristotle, spontaneity and chance are causes of some things, distinguishable from other types of cause. |
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| The students had the chance to hear the stories straight from the horses' mouths in the field interviews. |
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| And I hoped that in youth the good path may be chosen By each little man who may chance wear these hosen. |
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| Moreover, the Franks appreciated the chance to participate in mission that would extend their influence in Kent. |
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| The royal graves and many others were probably rediscovered by chance in 1788 when a prison was being constructed by convicts on the site. |
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| Montfort stood little chance against the superior royal forces, and after his defeat he was killed and mutilated on the field. |
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| With the chance for an annulment lost and England's place in Europe forfeit, Cardinal Wolsey bore the blame. |
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| The military protocol of the day was that a town or garrison that rejected the chance to surrender was not entitled to quarter. |
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| As with the other reforms, this helped ensure that Fellows had a chance to vet and properly consider candidates. |
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| This new parliament did not meet for thirteen months, because Charles wanted to give passions a chance to die down. |
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| However, with all the jingle mail going on, there is a good chance you can sway the mortgage company with the correct psychology. |
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| Napoleon saw his chance to recuperate the formerly wealthy colony when he signed the Treaty of Amiens. |
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| If a vigilant bomber crew could spot the fighter first, they had a decent chance at evading it. |
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| Although Bloomsbury agreed to publish the book, Cunningham says that he advised Rowling to get a day job, since she had little chance of making money in children's books. |
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| The hosts pulled back level, but when Will Barrett converted a chance created by attackman Jonathan Aspinall, the momentum swung back to the visitors. |
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| The tests give the market the chance to kick the tyres of some of Europe's weaker financial institutions, so you might expect the City to be enthusiastic about them. |
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| Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal. |
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| The zoological section features dozens of exotic hands-on displays including the chance to experience an ant colony and say hello to Spike the Woolly Rhino. |
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| The latter are thanks to the return to the practice of leaving the cutting of grass for hay or silage until wild plants have had a chance to seed. |
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| Philip saw his chance and broke the agreement with the Duke of Burgundy by having himself anointed at Reims in January 1317 as Philip V of France. |
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| Conflans' fleet became caught in a storm which slowed them down and allowed the pursuing British under Sir Edward Hawke a chance to catch up with them. |
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| From the measurements, coils were placed and coil currents determined to minimize the chance of detonation for any ship at any heading at any latitude. |
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| Chelsea began the second half in more determined fashion and soon after Malouda directed a weak shot at Hennessey, they wasted a glorious chance to get on the scoresheet. |
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| At the other end Elmutasem Abushnaf failed to keep his short low and on target after working his way to the edge of Ghanaian penalty box and the chance went abegging. |
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| Psychiatric medicines can increase the chance of developing diabetes. |
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| Once the tutor has had the chance to help the student, classmates get to switch roles in order to give both peers an opportunity to learn from each other. |
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| Their objections were ignored and Halder argued that, as Germany's strategic position seemed hopeless anyway, even the slightest chance of decisive victory should be grasped. |
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| In Donegal the fabrics are made up in the cottages, where also the garments are shaped with such skill and fancy as may by chance pertain to the untaught shapester. |
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| MacBain suggests that it is Lancelot who is ultimately identified with the tragedy of chance and human failing that is responsible for the downfall of the round table. |
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| Eventually, their gambling debts grow so big that they are cut off from making any more bets, eliminating the chance that they can make enough money to satisfy their shylocks. |
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| You confidently suspected that if you turned up at one of the meat markets in town there would be a canny chance you'd pull a warmish body with a pulse. |
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| While nearly as dangerous and deadly as becoming a pirate, colonialism in the Americas offered those who dared, a chance at changing their socioeconomic place. |
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| He believed that the incompetence of the masses could eventually be overcome if they were given a chance to take part in politics, especially at the local level. |
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| There's no chance to sleep on the matter, you have to decide now. |
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| Elgar took every chance to do so at the Crystal Palace concerts. |
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| In both small and large estates women were heavily involved in fieldwork, and the chance to be exempted in favor of domestic work was a privilege. |
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| With seating limited to under 500 per show, the chance to purchase tickets was determined by a postcard lottery, with each winner allowed two tickets. |
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| This festival is an excellent chance to see new talent aborning. |
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| They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work. |
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| A ballot now exists annually for the chance for individuals to purchase a maximum of two tickets from a special allocation of 100 stalls seats for the Last Night. |
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| Working backstage gave him a chance to study actors such as Paul Scofield. |
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| The subject was reported to have been successful in a series of 133 trials but the results dropped to chance level when performed before a group of scientists in Cambridge. |
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| Before she had a chance to deal with her hangover, he was on the phone snake-oiling her into the first of what would be many ill-fated fraud cases. |
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