Sentence examples for bad opportunity from inspiring English sources

9. Over-exposed teen moms will take pretty much every bad opportunity they are offered.

Murray argues that America is coming apart, dividing into two nations — one with high education levels, stable families and good opportunities and the other with low education levels, unstable families and bad opportunities.

The darn shame with chasing bad opportunities is that occasionally, circumstances change and you end up winning a deal in spite of yourself.

Below are a just a few (good and bad) opportunities for paid online advertising: Pop-up ads - Notoriously annoying, pop-up ads (and related variants) are just what they sound like - windows that "pop up" as a user views a website and display an ad.

Too bad the opportunity was forgone.

Victor Matheson of the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts finds that organisers of big sporting events tend to overestimate the benefits and underestimate the costs.They are particularly bad on opportunity costs, counting every penny that sports-mad tourists spend while forgetting that others will cancel trips to avoid the crush.

Too bad, the opportunity was lost for doing the job better.

I don't know the back story in Delaware about why this new legislation was pushed as a gay-only second-best measure, rather than as an alternative to marriage for both gay and straight couples, but it's too bad an opportunity was lost here.

Economics long ago established that common-access resources make for bad business opportunities.

"It was not a bad result, opportunities still exist and everything is still possible, but I didn't understand some of the referee's decisions.

It is difficult these days to confess to being moved by something as simple as the shape of a mountain, but too bad: the opportunities for being overwhelmed by the majesty of our habitat are few and far between.