Sentence examples for ignored opportunity from inspiring English sources

(Where is she now?) Bin Laden not being armed is relevant less in a legalistic sense — as Carney said, "resistance does not require a firearm" — than because it suggests a missed, or rather ignored, opportunity.

Because of you I ignored opportunity and pushed myself into marriage when I was a beginner at love.

In any event, watch out for the direct methanol fuel cell, for this virtually ignored opportunity could well either someday replace vehicles powered by batteries or in parallel maybe develop even faster.

Yet the crown repeatedly ignored opportunities that might have avoided violent revolution -- Spain certainly could have loosened connections with its overseas dominions and granted Mexico some degree of independence.

With its almost exclusive focus on labor and delivery, the current approach as implemented has largely ignored opportunities to achieve better outcomes arising during pregnancy (only paying attention to whether the requisite antenatal contacts occur).

True, if you ignore opportunity cost.

Fidelity's calculations are numbers before taxes are taken out, while Strong's numbers totally ignore opportunity lost dollars, so the totals are misleading.

19 In the process of assessing the cost-effectiveness, we will highlight the potential opportunity costs involved because recommendations that ignore opportunity costs will either not be relevant to decision makers or, if blindly followed, may result in inappropriate adoptions or rejections of treatments.

Does it ignore opportunities for the advancement of knowledge and the betterment of humankind?

None of which is to say we should become complacent and ignore opportunities to make additional safety gains.

Mr. Wahid brushed aside the moves against him, ignoring opportunities to mend fences and further alienating the legislature.