Sentence examples for destroy the chances from inspiring English sources

He maintains that notching would destroy the chances of ever completing the dam something that the corps denies.

A rocking chair center stage provides a formidable perch for Mag Folan (Rosaleen Linehan), the septuagenarian scold who does everything within her gleaming-eyed power to destroy the chances for happiness grabbed at by her daughter, Maureen Susan Lynchh).

Knowing that only one person will become President, every candidate claims that he is the only well-suited candidate to the presidency, and tries to destroy the chances of the other candidates - women and men.

An improperly trained staff member can destroy the chances of booking a several hundred dollar corporate event or a $150 birthday party.

That provision alone may be enough to destroy the chance of many such combinations.

We must not allow terror to destroy the chance of peace in the Middle East.

He promised not to interfere with pre-election peace efforts, pledging that neither he nor Agnew "will destroy the chance of peace".

Sales and looting destroy the chance to reconstruct cultural history and thereby robs humankind of the ability to learn from its past.

"Rescuing Education Reform" (editorial, March 2) is partly right: we must not allow partisan positioning to destroy the chance offered by the No Child Left Behind Act to end substandard education for poor and minority children.

Municipalities need to not only contribute to renewable energy but also contribute to everybody profiting from them and if necessary reject projects with unbalanced outcomes, because one negative project may destroy the chance for many other positive projects.

The inauguration of the Alexander statue is expected on independence day, Sept. 8. "This attempt to rebuild the Macedonian nation is definitely destroying the chances for compromise" with Greece, said Vladimir Milcin, executive director of the Open Society Foundation Macedonia.