Sentence examples for granted chances from inspiring English sources

As Collins explained, many players the Mets would have granted chances to showcase their skills are already getting those opportunities.

Granted, chances are slim that a string of Y2K-related computer failures could do more than isolated damage to society's infrastructure.

This particular reexamination request was rejected once before in 2010, but once granted, chances were in its favor that some kind of rejection of the patent claims would come back.

Granted, chances are you'll never even be in the running for the job of Jeb Bush's CTO or, I dunno, the new host of The Daily Show, but old Facebook or Twitter posts can still make you look bad, either when you're looking for a new position or when you're about to start the new job.

Tapping into your social circles for an introduction to the right celebrity is certainly an ideal opportunity; granted, the chances your buddy knows the perfect candidate to endorse your brand aren't particularly high.

Various other discussions of chance for example in statistical mechanics (Loewer 2001; Frigg 2008) or "Humean chance" (Lewis 1986 , 1994—take for granted that chances should be precise and probabilistic (Dardashti et al. 2014 is an exception).

In an interview this week, Mr. Peskin acknowledged that he was concerned for his candidates, and said he "never took for granted" their chances.

Among some Indians, this quality, key to the stoic, sadly smiling faces so widespread in Bhuj after the quake, is itself partly to blame for the country's plight, since politicians and bureaucrats who fail in crisis are forever claiming, and being granted, second chances.

Now, this nation has been granted another chance - perhaps the last chance to arrest the decline before it becomes irreversible.

Of his challenge grant chances for success, Dr. Catenacci said, "I am not holding my breath or putting all my eggs in one basket.

The disobedient students in Arizona, and four others who walked to Washington from Florida this spring to press for the Dream Act, want the opportunity that others take for granted: the chance to earn college degrees, to forge better lives, to fulfill their potential in their home country.