Sentences with phrase «than a fighting chance»

«How great would it be for a Staten Islander to sit in a seat of power and give us better than a fighting chance at some of our longstanding battles?

Produced by Keiji Inafune whose previous work has included the Onimusha, Lost Planet and Dead Rising series, he is joined by key members of the team behind the Metroid Prime series, which gives ReCore more than a fighting chance at being in the running for a Game of the Year award in twelve months time.

While I'm not convinced direction from hit - or - miss Antoine Fuqua equates to an Oscar win for Gyllenhaal (Fuqua directed Denzel Washington to Oscar glory as another kind of beast in 2001's Training Day), I am convinced the actor has more than a fighting chance thanks to a screenplay written by the guy who created TV's Sons of Anarchy, Kurt Sutter.

Let's make sure we give them, and their students, more than a fighting chance.

On paper at least, the Jaguar XE has been developed with everything necessary to give it more than a fighting chance to succeed.

The new Land Rover Discovery Vision Concept will be revealed in a couple of weeks at the New York Auto Show, but there's more than a fighting chance we'll have far more before then.

Even though I keep bringing up how great things are for skilled players, UFC amateurs stand more than a fighting chance this time around.

As a visual spectacle it's unsurpassed, on console at least; here's one area in which Guerrilla can go toe - to - toe with The Witcher 3 with more than a fighting chance.

With our representation, you'll have more than a fighting chance at obtaining maximum recovery for your losses.

Not exact matches

I am more than willing to give a second chance to Mark in this fight's critical hour.»

«I am more than willing to give a second chance to Mark in this fight's critical hour,» says Andrew Lee, cofounder and chairman of London Trust Media, who also briefly ran Mt. Gox's U.S. operations.

The litigation was still ongoing, so Kobayashi was tasked with the challenge of when to sell the coins to protect creditors from losing their full principal, while also giving them a chance to fight for the rightful ownership of the coins rather than cash at bankruptcy valuations.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.»

It was a close fought contest with both teams creating chances on a terrible pitch, but I think we more than thoroughly deserved the victory and our class showed towards the end, snatching all three points.»

I expect that ultimately his own issues with the UFC, and a possible ambivalence to fighting, are more likely to derail his chances at another title shot than anything else.

I would give Campbell another chance at the club, he has more fighting spirit than Walcott, Ramsey & Ozil combined.

Ozil needs to fight for his place and if given a chance show that he can do better than Cazorla at the moment, and that is the way it should be in Arsenal.

unfortunately there is a bigger chance Nate Diaz fight some contenders for free than Conor ever fighting Khabib in Russia.

Ma point is, d fact that they way better than us, does not mean they will beat us blue and black, we hav fighting chance just as they have too.

«I expect them to be fewer than five or six points off the Premier League winners, and I think they've got a fighting chance to win it.»

Not saying 100 % that he'll win this fight, but I give him a much better chance than it seems most do.

I think it is fair enough for wenger to fight and give more chances to these players than buying a player who left us for his «boyhood» club at our most fragile time when he was holding the honourable, mighty captain's arm band..

We as the Arsenal need to do our part in becoming a place where the highest dreams of players are realized, even if we don't always win trophies, we need to at least always have a «Genuine» fighting chance, Real Madrid went a number of seasons chasing La Decima, spent loads of cash, played second fiddle to Barca for a few seasons even but still players still dreamed of playing for them in that period, we as fans need to grow up too and stop bitching and whining especially about our players, we create a toxic atmosphere for these guys when we do so and it doesn't help nobody, little wonder our players perform better away than they do at home.

It only makes business sense because Vanes probably costs less than others boxers, and fighting someone that you have a 95 % or greater chance of beating is better business than fighting someone you don't.

Giulliani insisted that the polling doesn't show a major difference between the chances of Lazio and Levy, and added, «Rick has as good or better chance of beating (Andrew) Cuomo as Steve does... there's nothing that immediately says, gee, he's going to be a much better candidate than Rick, who's been out there fighting for it, pushing for it.»

Gibson's position on testing puts him closer to the union (which is fighting to keep testing - based evaluations of its members) than many Democrats — including Cuomo — and NYSUT president Karen Magee told the New York Times that Gibson would have a «good chance» at winning it in a statewide run.

While de Blasio has been a harsh critic of former mayor Michael Bloomberg's policy of closing long - struggling schools, he has sought to differentiate his school closure policy from his predecessor's by arguing that schools be given a fighting chance before they are closed, and that the administration closes schools quickly rather than dragging out the process via phase out.

Few MPs will have greeted the snap election with less enthusiasm than Catherine West, who knows her chances of holding on to this Labour - Lib Dem semi-marginal depend on fighting a hard Brexit.

Rather than placing ourselves in a «fight» against climate change, or lament a lost Eden, we should take the chance to rethink how we live, says Mike Hulme

So there's a fighting chance that the LHC will be much more than a $ 10 billion validator: It won't destroy the world, but it certainly could turn the physics world upside - down.

But if the younger ant was 2 days old, with its outer layers beginning to harden, it had a 14 % chance of winning, and in 43 % of these fights, both ants perished, rather than just the youngster.

Harvard Medical School suggests boosting your energy throughout the day — and giving your fitness goals a fighting chance — by grabbing a piece of fruit or a few nuts rather than a snack with added sugar.

Though antibiotics are sometimes necessary in order to fight off serious infections and help people recover, it's also the case that taking antibiotics, creates the chance that the number of good bacteria in your body becomes significantly lower than the bad bacteria (30).

If you make a conscious effort to at least make better than 50 % of your diet healthy when you're young, you'll have a fighting chance of not getting overweight in later years and have a tough time losing it.

I'm not saying only the most attractive individuals will find love, but those who take care of their physical appearance have more of a fighting chance than those who don't.

Now's your chance to join more than 160 people watching a currently empty room that will soon play host to today's Capcom Fight Club in New York.

Fate gives Chuck a chance to fight his way back to civilization in a daring escape, only to face an unexpected emotional challenge that, in many ways, is more demanding than the physical ones he survived.

There's a chance Negasonic will be able to hold her own in a fight (even more so than before) going forward, and maybe Colossus will worry less about his protégé.

«Godzilla» was also divisive, but was significantly more artful than most blockbuster this year, and, while it won't figure in at year's end, would have a fighting chance at this point.

Four conditions that create engaged people as adapted from Glasser's choice theory are: 1) some component of fun, 2) the ability for the participants to choose and exercise an appropriate amount of personal power, 3) the sense of belonging to something greater than themselves, and 4) a sense that, although not yet able, they have a fighting chance at gaining competence at a given task.

Yet, more often than not these days, a sport utility vehicle is a unibody crossover rather than a truck, which gives the Honda Pilot a fighting chance in this segment.

If you want your book to have a fighting chance among the more than 700,000 new books published each year, your cover must trigger an instant response.

Sharp's decision comes less than a month after HP decided to axe its Touchpad tablet, which some believe still has a fighting chance in the market.

This makes the American Pitbull Terrier seem like a statistically vicious dog — but it's no more human aggressive than others; a lineage of dog fighting could increase this breeds chances of being aggressive to dogs, however.

The latest research estimates that in order to stand a fighting chance against this poison, treatment must begin no later than 3 hours post consumption for cats and a maximum of 8 hours for dogs.

Regardless, until the skin is cleared up, chances are good your dog will fight fleas worse than most dogs.

A chihuahua may be more aggressive but an adult and most children have a better chance of fighting one off than defending themselves or others from a dog that can weigh up to 130 lbs and which was bred for muscle production.

Most notably, the players will get a chance to fight in a zero gravity environment and that is sure expected to be more than thrilling.

Having more than one game will at least give it a fighting chance to survive and be a success with family's or it'll end up like another Sony product the PS Vita, great tech but lacking the sales to back it up.

Rather than knock people off stages by beating the crap out of them, you fight people in the chances to build up points that are used for special abilities to rake in kills.