Sentences with phrase «chance encounters do»

And, since they're addicted to speed, an organized tour suits their purposes much better than aimless wanderings and chance encounters do.

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So, there's a tremendous amount of standard business wisdom about how you need to have an elevator pitch, a small nugget that will encapsulate what it is you do with the amount of time it takes to pitch your business to a theoretical once - in - a-lifetime investor in a chance elevator encounter.

Find out how they treated the receptionist, find out what they did while they waited, ask about any chance encounters with other employers... occasionally you can identify a disconnect between what they show you and what they show the people they're not trying to impress.

more recently, a couple of people in different ways have challenged me to give people a chance, to make each encounter with them a clean slate, rather than holding on to the things that have hurt me... If I could really do this, imagine the potential for understanding and goodness.

Whether he has ever seen a devil, as Mantel did as a girl — «It has no edges, no mass, no dimension, no shape except the formless; it moves» — is ultimately unimportant; his novels are the work of a man who believes in devils, or at least in their possibility, and the possibility that one of his ordinary Americans could encounter one by chance.

While one chance of silverware has disappeared, they did record an encouraging 1 - 1 draw at Chelsea in the first leg of their League Cup semi-final, with the return game at the Emirates following the weekend's encounter with the Eagles.

They report that Simeone and Dybala did meet in the restaurant but that it was just a chat about football after a chance encounter.

With this, Michael Owen could boost his England chances with a rare start, although, the England hopeful did start United's previous Champions League encounter at home to CSKA, of which he had very little impact on the game.

If we're being honest, the 2 - 0 scoreline did flatter Liverpool in Sunday's Merseyside encounter with Everton, as the Toffees» dictated most of the play and had most of the clear cut chances.

As a youngster traditional swimming didn't quite cut it for Bradley - Smith but a chance encounter with the mesmerising hypnosis of synchronised swimming one Sunday was all that was needed to capture her imagination.

After the encounter, some journalists bemoaned the fact that they didn't get the chance to ask their questions.

When first asked about their encounter Cuomo rejected the notion that he had deliberately avoided Teachout but did not expressly deny seeing her, saying «I know she was at the parade but I didn't get a chance to talk to her.»

«I decided that a chance encounter in a Greek taverna didn't equip me well enough to form a judgement.»

Chronic or hard - to - assess ailments where the clinical encounter does not have an easily identifiable end point will all fall victim to the on - off logic of a private health service, as will operations involving high costs with low or medium chances of success.

Is there anything that could be learned from that apparently chance encounter, perhaps something you might do intentionally in the future... something you might be able to use to your advantage?

When you do achieve something big and surprising — the kind of shocking, foundation - rocking science that wins Nobel Prizes — there's a good chance you'll encounter resistance from those whose research you're overturning, says Daniel Shechtman, a materials science professor at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.

Their cultural attitudes and beliefs regarding elephants have traditionally limited the exploitation of elephants in terms of deliberate poaching for ivory or meat, but they do experience direct conflict with elephants, for example, at watering holes and during chance encounters in the bush, which sometime can be deadly [25], [26].

I certainly don't slather on the coral - destroying sunscreen in the off chance I might encounter a few stray rays of sunlight, and in fact, I welcome it!

No matter how many dating tips you master there is a chance you will encounter someone who doesn't write back or who doesn't wish to take things further.

In fact, lots of folks will tell you that the only real way to do it is to stop looking... Missed connection — Users can post stories of chance encounters with people they wish they... They... DateHookup.com presents.

You'll be unlikely to encounter anybody asking for your money on this site, and if you do they'll probably be deleted in a puff of smoke before you even have a chance to complain.

Of course they are a few individuals out of millions, and your chances of encountering one of them are extremely low, perhaps lower than being struck by lightning, but if you do you should know the signs to look for and the precautions to take.

This is a place for discreet encounters, which means you don't have to be afraid of sharing your information because it will always be kept safe, and there is nothing better than having the chance to meet new and interesting people in a safe environment.

For city - dwellers, the route to getting to know someone new too often relies on a chance encounter in by in a club or bar; but how often do these people really seem like long - term material?

Perhaps viewing a dating site or choosing to sit in a group lunch area at work where there is a chance of an encounter may be something you can do each...

Yet, against all expectations he ends up doing just that, when a chance encounter with his flaky neighbour Penny (Keira Knightley, A Dangerous Method) sparks an unlikely friendship, a cross-country road trip, and the connection of an all - too - short lifetime.

, 2001) including a chance encounter between Taiwanese actress Chen Shiang - chyi and French acting legend Jean - Pierre Léaud did not produce the expected sparks.

For Tony Stark, the development provides the chance for absolution: already guilty about his role in the Ultron incident, he has a chance encounter with a State Department employee, Mariah Dillard (Alfre Woodard), who doubles as a grieving mother (her son opted to do charity work in Sokovia, and paid for that decision with his life) and who helps to inadvertently convince him that being forced to be held accountable is the right step to take.

What is fair to divulge is that one of Norman's chance encounters turns out to be portentous — he does a small favor for a man who will one day become prime minister of Israel.

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Wilder's main cinematic inspiration here, besides Vidor, Ernst Lubitsch and some of Billy's fellow expatriate noir - masters, was David Lean's and Noel Coward's peerless 1945 extramarital romance «Brief Encounter,» starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson, who have a chance to rendezvous in a friend's pad but don't end up doing so.

Our assignments, the screenings we can or can't make, social commitments, chance encounters, making time to sleep and eat — finding a rhythm that best suits us and our preferences and our commitments is really difficult and it takes time and a few years of solid TIFFing before you really get comfortable doing this beat.

Unfortuntely, I never got a chance to share a conversation with Ebert, but we did have an encounter that I will remember forever.

One might view Mike's trajectory as a series of random occurrences or chance encounters; some might even go so far as to say he was foolish to rely always on a Plan A, instead of looking into alternatives if things did not go the way he planned.

In the end each does encounter a crisis, but the author leaves the reader on an unexpectedly moving and uplifting tone that suggests that even flawed people might have a chance at enlightenment.

I'm not saying you won't encounter those voices at all (every writer does, even J.K. Rolling), but your chances are considerably lessened when you you train your brain to write every day.

«Experience, however, indicates that the best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago... a business that constantly encounters major change also encounters many chances for major error.

«As our human population continues to rise, so do our chances of encountering wildlife.

Once you kill the flea infestation currently in your home, the chances are good that you won't encounter another one since you don't have pets who are constantly in and out of the house

However, if the encounter happens suddenly or you otherwise don't have a chance to avoid and it isn't breeding season, then you'll have to scare the coyote off.

If a puppy doesn't have a robust list of things they have encountered before they are a few months of age, the chance of them being afraid of people and different situations is very high.

Have a chance encounter with a yellow eyed penguin on Otago Peninsula outside Dunedin (also on our to - do list)

The mantas don't seem to mind swimmers so there's a good chance your encounter will be a lengthy one as they turn and glide in the waters beneath you, huge mouths open as they feed on the plankton.

If you are overnighting in the area, don't miss the chance to encounter glow worms on a night time walk in Melba Gully.

On my first trip I encountered some enemies I had no chance against and I was unceremoniously punished for daring to do what I was told to by losing five minutes of what we all know is a very short life when the age of the universe is taken in to account.

It's does a really good job of guiding you to where the story is, but it still feels like a sort of chance encounter out in the world when you come across somebody who has a role to move the story forward.»

If you encounter a captain and throw him into a fire believing he burned to death he has a chance to come back, and if he does he will have a unique piece of dialogue that shows he remembers that you burned him and left him for dead, he will also have burn marks on his body or arm.

It's the only time that the intricacies of the combat system get the chance to shine, showing off depth that you don't see in the regular encounters.

Chance encounters like this remind us that truly fantastic games don't just stop at solid gameplay experiences, and instead continue offering as much content as they can.

Don't miss your chance to encounter the beguiling poured paintings of Frank Bowling RA.