Sentence examples for back on opportunities from inspiring English sources

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Gaurav Gaur, for example, an Indian who earned his M.B.A. from Cornell in 2004, said he seized the chance to leave New York last year for London to work for Barclays, though it meant turning his back on opportunities at Bloomberg L.P. and other American companies.

Ever since the G.O.P. landslides in the midterm elections of 2010, Republicans have worked to restrict the right to vote in a variety of ways — by cutting back on opportunities for early voting, making absentee voting more difficult, and imposing photo-I.D. requirements at the polls, to name only the best known methods.

"So we will look back on opportunities lost, perhaps our catching wasn't quite as accurate as we would expect.

And some of those presented with the opportunity to give Southgate a nudge will look back on opportunities missed.

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He said: "Labour have now turned their back on opportunity and aspiration – we're going to build the share-owning democracy this party has always believed in.

Setting out his view of how the Tories should direct their fire at the Labour party led by Jeremy Corbyn, he said: "Labour have now turned their back on opportunity and aspiration – we're going to build the share-owning democracy this party has always believed in.

True leadership never turns its back on opportunity.

Of course, there are plenty of reasons for employers to want to go the route of remote hiring, from cutting back on opportunity costs to having more productive employees, but with the inevitable handover of the job market from Gen X and baby boomers to tech-savvy millennials, shifting to a remote business structure is proving to be a necessity for companies wanting to stay afloat.

From introverts who find it challenging to put themselves out there in a bigger way, to those who are scared to meet new people either online or in person, to individuals who don't yet grasp the power of personal branding, thousands of professionals are turning their backs on opportunities that could change the course of their careers simply because of their reluctance to network.

This leads Barenboim on to a diatribe against governments cutting back on the opportunities for young people to experience music.

I wasn't ready to turn my back on these opportunities.

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