"Also, I think the chance of even having some small influence that helps, that is multiplied by 1.2 billion lives, it's such an immense opportunity".
It's an immense privilege, a chance to make a difference.
Is there by any chance an immense wooden box carved with ancient runes?
In both cases, however, the true subject is chance: "the immense strokes of luck, good or bad, that are calibrated by an infinity that escapes us".
Gambling, with its allure, its lore, its cosmology of numbers and chance, the immense skill it demands, the wild hope and dizzying despair it summons, remains powerfully attractive — and lucrative — to Walsh.
The damage to my reputation and career has been immense, which means the chances of me getting a senior job are that much less.
But the potential costs of mishandling it — to the governor's stature, to his political authority and even to his election chances — were immense.
"The damage to my reputation and career has been immense, which means the chances of me getting a senior job are that much less," he added.
Iranian-Americans like myself voted for all of those Iranians who wish their country could be given a chance to realize its immense possibilities.
And for the undisputed frontrunner, fewer public appearances meant fewer chances to blow his immense lead.
So long as the markets continued to deliver the immense gains of recent decades, the chances of regulating the markets' effect on the democratic system were slim indeed.
