Only chance ensured that the empire remained united under Louis I (the Pious), the last surviving son of Charlemagne.
His money helped: Miss Necker's marriage to the Baron de Staël, a spendthrift Swedish aristocrat with an eye on the main chance, ensured her position at court as the wife of the Swedish ambassador.
Macklon is looking for ways in which IVF patients can improve their chances by ensuring their health is as good as it can be and that their embryos are of the best possible quality.
But fewer journalists means fewer eyes open for stories and less chance of ensuring that people are informed.
David Elkington, who is writing a book about the lead "books", backs Jordan's claim, saying it offers the best chance of ensuring the artefacts are open to scholars.
And the White House needs to understand that the best chance of ensuring that this disaster is never repeated is to acknowledge and then confront what went wrong.
Clinicians experienced and skilled in this difficult field can provide knowledge, often counterintuitive, without which courts have less chance of ensuring that children's lives are not blighted by continued neglect and abuse.
Only NATO troops some 28,000 of them, in the blueprint would stand a chance of ensuring that the KLA would disarm and disband and that the bulk of Serbia's forces would leave.
After we talked to Nardelli for a story in our last issue (Jan . 8, we thought he had a decent chance of ensuring Home Depot's survival and, wrongly, his own as well.
Given the unsuccessful history of scientists' participation in the educational battles over evolution, it seems hopeful that a pluralistic position, promoting cultural tolerance and individual choice, has a better chance of ensuring that students at the very least learn what evolution is.
