Sentence examples for chance of talking from inspiring English sources

Steve didn't have a cat in hell's chance of talking either player into staying with the contracts they'd been offered elsewhere.

Riley, of course, would have as much chance of talking James into a seat with the streak alive as he would of making his players publicly admit that they have his old Lakers in their sights.

She strikes up an ironic, strategic alliance with Matt, and, as both are aware, he is just the kind of sensitive, fat loser-nerd who wouldn't stand a chance of talking to her when they were in high school.

Also, if I can find a user's full name and photo just by entering a phone number, and maybe even more info depending on how much they share on their Facebook profile, I might stand a better chance of talking them into something not in their best interest on the phone.

I was at Best Buy one day, and a gentleman said, "Miss Cleo, aren't you supposed to be on the phone?" I said, "Honey, do you really think that I do that while I'm travelling and doing press?" I said, "You have a better chance of talking to me right here than you do if you called".

I was at Best Buy one day, and a gentleman said, "Miss Cleo, aren't you supposed to be on the phone?" I said, "Honey, do you really think that I do that while I'm traveling and doing press?" I said, "You have a better chance of talking to me right here than you do if you called".

And one should not let slip any chances of "talking" to the Americans, of doing something to bridge this abyss which divides us, and it really is an abyss: this is a different world, as far from Europe and our problems as the Moon.

Kissinger similarly agreed, though he had fears that the use of US-made arms in the invasion would be exposed to public scrutiny, talking of their desire to "influence the reaction in America" so that "there would be less chance of people talking in an unauthorised way".

Under pressure to restore a chance of talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, last week stunned the Hamas-led government with an ultimatum.

Israeli officials say that if the unity deal goes through, it would end any chance of talks and that they feel confident that Washington will back them on that decision.

The position of Turkey, which is becoming a little too fond of spanner-throwing (see article), and Brazil is at first sight more solid: they say that the resolution has sunk both the chance of talks with Iran and their own plan to remove uranium.