Sentences with phrase «chance of a life time»

This was the money making chance of a life time.

As the 39th Ordinary Congress of the Confederation of African football, CAF, in Addis Ababa, the chance of a life time beckons on Madagascar's Ahmad to beat the gangling Camerounian whose long stay in office coupled with his iron grip on CAF has thrown up a group of fiery younger generation who for the first time will present a serious challenge to Hayatou.

Not exact matches

And be realistic about the chances of not receiving that money: a long stay in a private retirement home, a re-marriage, investment losses, or the relative simply living a really long time can cut into the amount you end up receiving.

The year after a baby is born is, also «a unique time,» and a chance to take care of yourself and your family during a period of a mind - bending life changes.

When we really focus and listen to what coworkers, clients, and our bosses are telling us in real life, we have a better chance of executing correctly the first time and encouraging all of these people around us to trust us.

To drive engagement, the company enlisted Likeable to launch a #purebarrelife campaign, a contest which asked clients to share personal stories about integrating Pure Barre into their daily lives through text, photos and videos on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest for a chance to win prizes.The company enlisted the agency's help because Likeable has the expertise to navigate the challenges involved in running a national social - media contest, such as time demands, possible legal issues, and the unique rules and guidelines of each individual platform.

Since that time, he has written a long - form essay broken into three books: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, and Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder.

Gerecht was essentially with (see his 2012 essay «Living with Islam») certain voices in the Obama State Dept., or among the academic supporters of the Revolution at a site like The Arabist, which for a time held that the Revolution presented a chance to split the broad Islamic constituency represented by the Brotherhood, to separate the Brothers ready to meet democratic secularists half - way, from the rest, and to let the latter earn the scorn of the populace through their own policies, actions, etc..

Those that believe in the origin of life in that way just believe that after such a long time the chance actually happened.

Similarly, if you and I are not willing to take the time and expense and build up our spiritual reserves while we have the chance, a time may come when a crisis happens in our life — a sickness, a death, a loss of finances or a job, or persecution — and we will find that we do not have the spiritual reserves to get through.

The chances of life forming after all that time, were actually quite good.

The chance of life evolving to what is it today was indeed small, but given enough time, anything can happen as long as the probability isn't 0.

The mentally healthy person is the productive and unalienated person; the person who relates himself to the world lovingly, and who uses his reason to grasp reality objectively; who experiences himself as a unique individual entity, and at the same time feels one with his fellowman; who is not subject to irrational authority, and who accepts willingly the rational authority of conscience and reason; who is in the process of being born as long as he is alive, and considers the gift of life the most precious chance he has.

I say this because no matter how successful, in an obvious way, such preaching may be, its principal value is that «the old - time religion» (thus conceived and proclaimed) provides for insecure and uncertain men and women an authority to which they may bow and thus be delivered, as they think, from too much victimization by the «changes and chances of this mortal life».

Not all but most sermons miss the chance to strike a blow for the kingdom that do not at some point hold up for general laughter some quality of the familiar common life of our time and place.

So this actually proves what Quran gives the message to the mankind that God Almighty is so mercyful that we can think of... if you know that either one of correct, so the other should be rejected / punished and it is not happening, meaning everyone is being given chances to correct oneself as long as life time is there... and on that day all will be asked for the actions and then will be only two paths... one to good one and the other to somewhere no one would be willing to...

(Cf. the phenomenon of the «runners» at first connected with the mother plant and then separated from it; the fluid transition between various plants and animals which appear to be one; the germ - cell inside and outside the parent organism, etc.) Living forms which present what are apparently very great differences in space and time can ontologically have the same morphological principle, so that enormous differences of external form can derive from the material substratum and chance patterns of circumstance without change of substantial form (caterpillar - chrysalis butterfly).

He explains, «My T cell level is at an all - time high giving me a zero per cent chance of passing on the virus... miracles have been persistent in my life, therefore faith has been persistent in my life.»

One time I was driving very slowly with my oldest living brother Through an arboretum he loves, where there are ponds and foxes And owls and kingfishers, and all sorts of other holy amazements, And I asked him what was up with his wicked cancers, how much Pain was he in and what were his chances and what new medicine Could he take a stab at; questions with hooks and bristles on them.

Here is my evil plan — Create a fictional character, have him born into poverty in a part of the world full of strife with no recorded history, cast some doubts on his conception (that will keep them guessing), leave a decade or so gap in his life story, re-introduce him in the middle of nowhere and tell everyone he has all these amazing powers, he confounds and confuses all his followers and tells them not to tell anyone about what he does or where he is going and Oh yeah, they are all prostiitutes and tax cheats and lepers and the really lowlifes of society, deny them the chance to follow him, set him at odds with both the government and the church powers of his time, cast doubts on his seexuality and intelligence, make it so he refuses anyone to come to his aid and kill him in the most horrible way imaginable, then hide his body, make it so nothing he does can be historically proven.

And same old same old: lack of finishing, discipline, mental toughness, not living up to expectation & dodgy defending, injuries that once again has derailed to a degree the balance of the team... If Wenger doesn't go some of those things will have to change... Some players are for sure heading out this summer a prime chance to make some smart moves & promote players for more playing time (like Iwobi).

The easing of these rules might not have a major effect on the Gunners and our chances of winning the Premier League title this time, although it could make life harder for the boss in his transfer dealings, but in the long term it is likely to mean that Arsenal are once again unable to compete with the real big hitters.

I'm lucky not living in London, because there's chance (BIG time one), of Spuds celebrate their first «St Arse Day (or whatever the name is)» after twenty years.

There's so much wrong with Arsenal if we were given chances to write about them it would take a year.What kind of mentality is this.Forgive me for the way I come out but what has to be said has to be said and the truth hurts.I do nt know if you guys are happy with what's going on but am not.We live in a world where those who speak the truth are hated very much and a world full of incomprehensible things.Its just sad.Things have to change from this year especially the mentality of this club.I just wan na see my club succeed and its bothering me a lot we just can not seem to do what is right.It's time average players are taken out of the club and what I mean by that is players who do nt want to improve.You already them lot.

Truth is many Arsenal fans are living in denial, that's why you get so many thumbs down for telling it as it is.Apart from the 2 goals we scored, yesterday's performance was poor considering that we were playing a hull B team at home.We kept them in the game for long periods of time instead of being incisive and finishing them off early when we had the chances.

We can loan him out for a couple of seasons so yes we can blame him, we gave him a great chance in life, worked with people who put allot of time into him and who gave him second to none type facilities.

I would quit my job just to carry his bags and live from the tips he'd give me So AKB - er is not something I am really proud of it because I am actually blowing up his ar se every time I got the chance.

i agree andy but its not just the 4 years of hard work that should be taken into account, firstly the fai hav missed out on millions at a time where money is already tight, and more importantly the fact that given, kilbane, o shea, dunne, duff, whelan and keane may be too old when the next one comes around and for a professional footballer to hav a chance to represent his country on the biggest stage of all taken away in this manner is cruel, there can be no argument against technology when there is so much at stake as for henry being labelled a cheat i do not agree as it came at him so quick and although he in fact handled it twice i do not believe it was pre-meditated like maradonnas effort or that disgusting dive by anelka at 0 - 1... can any1 who watched the game live please tell me how lass diarra stayed on the pitch let alone avoided a yellow??

At this free - to - attend event, fans will get the chance to meet some of the Premier League's former stars, including Premier League champion and all - time top scorer Alan Shearer, and enjoy live music from top local artists and DJs.

Elsewhere, Pierre - Emile Højbjerg discusses life out of the team, and how he stayed motivated to seize his chance with a man - of - the - match display last time out at St Mary's against Everton.

If your child has special needs, chances are you've spent an unreasonable amount of time agonizing over whether you somehow caused her problems, whether you've chosen the right medical or therapeutic options, whether you're doing enough (or too much) to improve her chances in life.

If you live in a part of the country where winter weather shuts stuff down, chances are school will be called on account of snow at least a few times between Thanksgiving and Easter.

However, by breastfeeding frequently (at least 8 to 10 times a day) in the first 3 days of life, you can greatly reduce the chances that your baby will require higher intervention, such as phototherapy (going under bilirubin lights.)

Using frozen eggs from an earlier time in a woman's life can give her a greater chance of becoming a mother.

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Still, while the theory behind his philosophy «that the more time babies spend in their mothers» arms, the better the chances they will turn out to be well - adjusted children» and that «every baby's whimper is a plea for help and that no infant should ever be left to cry» sound reasonable, they can also lead to inferences of guilt and anxiety for moms who fear that spending any time away from their child could fuck him or her up for life.

When this 20 % risk of death is compared to the 0.02 % rate of cord prolapse during labor at homebirth that might have a better outcome if it happened in hospital, this means that a low risk woman has a 1000 times higher chance of having a life threatening complication either to her life or her fetus / newborns life at planned hospital birth, than if she plans to have an attended homebirth with a well - trained practitioner.

If you know me in real life, there is a pretty darn good chance you have seen at least one of my girls being worn in one kind of carrier or another at some point, some time...

By the time you hold your new baby in your arms for the first time, chances are you've already chosen one of the most important people in your little one's early life — a doctor.

What I did want was to give my body the chance to do exactly what God made it to do — grow a little life over the course of nine months and give birth in its own time.

Although I think homebirth takes on a set of risks a hospital is in many cases equipped to handle in a time frame that provides the best chance for life, I don't deny a woman's right to choose either for her family.

We realized that he slept most of the time in the wrap, which gave us the chance for an actual social life.

Indeed, there are many communities where ill - timed retrenchment may cause serious harm to the most vulnerable, and weaken the life - chances of children and young people in the most disadvantaged households.

But in times of coalition, not all members get the chance to specialise, and while parliamentarians don't drink with quite the same enthusiam of previous eras a trip to the bar still plays a part in Westminster life.

Says Paterson of the marriage equality bill: «People who've lived together for 10, 20, 30 years are waiting, hoping that this legislation will pass while they still have the breath to elicit an «I do» on the altar, and I think it's time that it happens, and if I have to see legislation fail so I can identify who voted against it to better persuade them, then I'll take that chance.»

Although Proxima Centauri's dimness provides the planet with a balmy climate, the star is prone to outbursts of harsh X-ray and ultraviolet radiation, which could damage any chance of life on the planet — X-rays hit the surface 400 times more often than those from the sun pummel Earth.

If you need a liver and live in Boston, your chance of getting one in time is about 53 percent.

And this life - tracking craze has produced something that many clinical researchers covet: a deluge of intimate data about individuals» moment - to - moment behavior, and the chance to influence that behavior in real time, through activities built into an app or strategically timed alerts and messages.

People with the altered form of the gene have at least a 70 per cent chance of developing colon cancer at some time in their lives, and women with the gene also have at least a 50 per cent chance of developing cancer of the uterus.

The photographs and illustrations in three of this year's best books offer the chance to get a good, close look at distant times, far - off places, and exotic modes of life.