Sentence examples for main chance in from inspiring English sources

Walther saw his main chance in 1995, a few years after Germany eased restrictions on its public equity markets.

The pompous and paunchy "Duce" saw the main chance in the chaos of post-World War I Italy and grabbed it.

"He's a jolly monk, an Arab from the Lebanon straight out of Chaucer all the same and with a clear eye fixed on the main chance; very learned in his own tongue, he speaks and writes French like a Frenchman," Bell wrote of Anastase, in a letter to her father on November 9 , 1917

And then, with an eye for the main chance, organised a photoshoot in which players and singers posed uncomfortably together.

They were called Maine Chance, not Main Chance.

In reality their main chance had vanished with Vialli.

In an article titled "The Brand Called You," Peters argued that "the main chance is becoming a free agent in an economy of free agents..

Eye for the main chance Thai me up American beauty In breathtaking Umbrian countryside, a grand family estate is being turned into a millionaires' hideaway.

The second task was tougher: to convince those workers, in the face of double-digit unemployment and thirty-three-per-cent poverty rates, that this economic equivalent of an axe blow was in fact a main chance.

It was Mr. Villepin's first and main chance to try to fend off charges of complicity in slander and forgery that could jeopardize his political career.

It is everywhere and nowhere: the main chance, the best shot, the big leagues, the only game in town.