Sentence examples for claimed opportunity from inspiring English sources

We are a nation that has seen promise amid peril, and claimed opportunity from ordeal.

We are a nation that has seen promise amid peril and claimed opportunity from ordeal.

Marcel Desailly was also approached but, having only recently started his Uefa coaching licence, claimed the opportunity had arrived too soon.

Regarding the latter, to have claimed that opportunity is a cause of crime would have gone quite contrary to the criminology of the day, which was heavily dispositional (it still is).

With a school-record-tying five field goals from kicker Jeff Budzien, and a late touchdown from running back Mike Trumpy, Northwestern claimed that opportunity, leaving Ryan Field with a 22-13 victoverover Boston College.

In the years leading up to the bursting of the dot-com bubble, Americans were encouraged to train in the fields of computers and the Internet, where, it was claimed, the opportunities were virtually unlimited.

Despite its importance, no attempt was made to resolve this question in Crime as Opportunity, but twenty-two years later Felson and I felt able to claim that opportunity is a cause of crime (see Opportunity Makes the Thief, Felson and Clarke, 1998).

A further deterrent was that to claim that opportunity caused crime would require us to define opportunity.

The convoluted procedure allows the majority leader to claim all opportunity for offering changes to a bill, effectively preventing any other senator from proposing an amendment intended to slow down legislation or force a politically embarrassing vote.

What has happened since claiming that opportunity causes crime?   4.

What has happened since claiming that opportunity causes crime?