Sentences with phrase «pass on the chance»

As for Ottawa, in 2010 it passed on the chance to fund Edmonton's World Expo 2017 bid.

Still, the president might be wary of passing on the chance to nominate the first female Fed chair — and Summers, in particular, has a bit of a reputation as a member of the old boys club.

When asked about it now, he repeats flatly that the incident just didn't happen and passes on the chance to walk back his remarks: I don't know if I would do anything differently.

Warren Buffett, who passed on the chance to buy $ 5 billion of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. shares at below - market prices, said he's taking a smaller stake in the bank as he focuses on his top holdings.

And despite Trump's claim that plenty of lawyers and «top law firms» want to work for him, a growing number have passed on a chance to represent a client who contradicts them in public, changes his story repeatedly, expects them to lie and has a history of stiffing his employees.

Of course it may not work out, but a core of Embiid / Simmons / Fultz may also never be good enough to win a title and then we would be kicking ourselves for passing on a chance at contending.

However, Goodell passed on the chance to respond to Trump's Muslim ban and previous comments about protesting players.

So when Dixon won his second championship in 2008, he passed on the chance to again run the No. 1 and maintained his No. 9 the following season.

The option available to Arsenal was therefore to pass on the chance to sign Alexis in order to get Fabregas.

But don't worry about the fact that distributor after distributor has passed on the chance to bring it to cinemas, that it's already opened and then promptly closed in Russia, Portugal and Serbia.

Arsenal passed on the chance to sign a proven world class star for # 25Million in the mould of ex Capitan Cesc Fabregas.

And let's not pass on another chance to possibly go top

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Donovan in 2008 passed on a chance to run for Congress, but the Republican source said that this year, after serving as D.A. for a decade - plus, he may be more open to the possibility.

U.S. Rep Joaquin Castro (D., Texas) and his twin brother Julian Castro, a former San Antonio mayor who was President Barack Obama's secretary of housing and urban development, both passed on the chance to run.

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Though he is content with a quiet life, will he pass on another chance at family glory when the chance to take on his long - time rival at a nationwide cooking competition designed to decide the rightful heir to the Royal Chef of the Chosun Dynasty presents itself?

Last Friday, Colyer passed on a chance to respond to Kobach's attacks at a Republican governor's candidate forum.

Hmmm... We pass on the chance to back out, put our faith — and lives — in the supposedly - stable Canadian canoes, and hop in.

Also, he never passes on the chance to indulge in an ecological pun.

A Masters also needs to be complemented by relevant work experience, so don't pass on the chance to mention any details of this.

Not exact matches

And that in itself is likely a show vote since it has little chance of passing in the House; rather, it may provide an avenue for keeping the legislative process going, buying time to iron out a new Senate - House deal on health care.

It was tough for him to pass up on a chance to be closer to home, and thought it was a good time for him to join a disruptive business model.

«California voters told us when they overwhelmingly passed Proposition 47 that people with nonviolent, low - level offenses must be given a chance to get back on their feet.

Harper says the Liberals passed up on a chance to renew the softwood lumber agreement in exchange for supporting the Trans - Pacific Partnership, and he says their subsidies to Bombardier set the stage for huge tariffs today.

I want as close to a 100 % chance that 100 % of my principal will still be there to pass on to others for as long as possible.

«Fundamentally I don't think this company [SurfStitch] stands a very good chance of being relisted, too much time has passed and it's too much on the nose,» Mr McGowan said.

• The War was distracting CEOs from hiring and spending; • Consumer confidence was negatively impacted; • Victory increases the chance a tax cut passes; • War limited visibility, keeping earnings expectations low; • The markets initial rally was «looking through» the war — and seeing an economic recovery on the other side.

If you're like many small to mid-size businesses, chances are your marketing team is passing leads directly on to the sales team.

If everyone around you is talking about a «hot stock,» or about how it's «time to get in the market,» there's a very good chance that the prime time for getting in on it has already passed.

Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him he passed by on the other side.

My money is on the camel, and not only because I am fond of both camels and outlandish metaphors; but it is a very old question what Jesus really said had a better chance of passing through a needle's eye than a rich man had of entering God's Kingdom.

Those organisms with the most useful traits for survival had the better chance of passing on those traits to offspring and so on and so on.

31Now by chance a priest was going down the road; and when he saw him he passed by on the other side.

If a bird found birdseed sprinkled on the snow only when a forest ranger passed its way and the ranger came only at night while the bird was asleep, the bird would doubtless attribute the seeds» appearance as «due to» chance.

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.»

As the years passed, and his sense of isolation deepened» even amid a loving family» he promised to strike out on his own the first chance he got.

It's nearly palpable, the sign makers» fear that we will pass by, at speed, focused on other things — worldly things that keep God far from our minds — and their conviction that only something exceptionally vivid has a chance of catching our attention.

Darwinian evolution, on the other hand, proceeded stepwise, in very small increments, each successive step conferring slightly more survival advantage and thus increasing the chances of survival and reproduction for the organism, ensuring that the advantage is passed on and further increased by future increments.

If I on my bicycle, following another independent trajectory, just «chance» to pass underneath such a natural occurrence at the relevant moment, perhaps the fervent uttering will take the form of an oath.

Eventually, we pass a sign on the right side of the road that says «Kitabi Tea Factory,» and I bolt upright in my seat — was this the Kitabi Tea Factory, an estate and tea processing facility that has been certified to the Rainforest Alliance's agriculture standard since 2011, and whose audit report I had, by chance, just included in a new analysis of tea farm improvements?

The start of a new season is always a chance to reflect on the one just passed - to try and rid yourself of any pesty bad habits and start integrating new routines which have the optimal effect on total wellness, inside and out.

Congress has about 50/50 chance of passing farm bill in 2013 The chances of the U.S. Congress passing a five - year farm bill by year's end are a little better than 50/50 given the gridlock over food stamps for the poor, a top farm policy expert said on Monday...

The Beer Institute is hoping a so - called «lame duck session» of Congress won't hurt the chances of finally passing the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act (CBMTRA), which would lower excise taxes, compliance burdens, and regulations on alcohol makers.

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Against Palace when teams sit in their own half, he can play the short passes and flicks to help create a chance for a shot, or can compete physically with defenders to try and get on the end of crosses.

There are games where we are playing badly but he is still creating chances or passing amazing balls on and nothing happens from his team mates.

His passing accuracy, chance creation, shooting and taking players on are all good enough to suggest he really is coming good.

i have been saying this for along time arsenal would be better surve with a defrent stile of play maker one who can shoot head the ball take on defender dribble into space.we all see it over on over again you don't need one killers pass to win game alot of team don't have ozil on create lots of chance against us.

The only way we had a chance of winning was threading short passes through the middle and catching them on the counter.