"It used to be a knee-jerk policy that kids were deferred even if their chances for gaining an acceptance were slim to none," he says.
But no details are yet available on what kind of facilities are in the two sites inspectors have been unable to visit or the chances for gaining access to them, raising the prospect that Syria will miss some deadlines.
What this means is that your chances for gaining acceptance are higher the earlier you turn in your application.
We'll sacrifice the quality of your existence now — by performing surgery, providing chemotherapy, putting you in intensive care — for the chance of gaining time later.
Many members of his party harshly criticized his decision to abandon the long-held unionist "no guns, no government" disarmament demand, and he would have little chance of gaining support for continued Ulster Unionist participation now in the absence of any matching I.R.A. move on arms.
I prefer a narrower maxim: namely that complex, over-nuanced political messages stand little chance of gaining traction, for the simple reason that most people have lives and do not agonise over the details that so absorb politicians and the commentariat.
From 1920 to 1932 the parties held power alternately, but no government had any chance of gaining firm support for its policy in the Riksdag.
LONDON — The smoldering issue of Scottish independence has ignited again, this time in a political context that appears to give Scottish nationalists at least an outside chance of gaining popular support for the end of Scotland's constitutional ties with Britain in a referendum among Scottish voters within the next two or three years.
With a week before Election Day, Mr. Perry, who is thought to have the best chance of gaining a seat for Republicans in the state, is struggling to fend off accusations that he witnessed and covered up the illegal strip search of a teenage girl in 1991, when he was a police sergeant in Wareham, Mass.
