Sentence examples for opportunities the first from inspiring English sources

He emerged, aged 20, into a world of opportunities – the first being postwar government funding for GIs to train for a career.

Two years later, after George graduated, the couple relocated to Texas in search of better economic opportunities, the first of many moves connected to George's business and political career.

Near the end of the first half, the Jets blew two touchdown opportunities, the first when Testaverde put no zip on a pass to Fred Baxter, who sloppily stepped out of bounds for an incompletion that, had the ball been caught in bounds, would have been an easy touchdown.

Considering the mobile AR with distant and simple objects, the project objectives and the optimization opportunities, the first step was the analytical estimation of performances.

Chelsea carved out most of the limited scoring opportunities, the first of which came on 12 minutes when Leon Britton cleared a glancing Fernando Torres header off his own goal-line, providing a perfect example of the value of having a man guarding the far post.

As one can imagine, most don't want to go back because of lack of opportunities; the first reason they left in the first place.

Rafael Soriano has stepped in and converted 29 saves in 31 opportunities, the third-most saves in the league.

Converting only 2 of 11 break-point opportunities, the ninth-seeded Isner fell, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, to No. 19 seed Philipp Kohlschreiber.

I'd been running a multimillion-dollar business at Hasbro but sensed a very big opportunity the first time I met the founders of eBay.

The MetroStars had two decent opportunities in the first half.

I gave him very few opportunities after the first set.