Sentence examples for opportunity roughly from inspiring English sources

So it is that college basketball finds itself with a center-stage opportunity, roughly five weeks before March Madness turns every workplace with a copying machine into a gambling den.

"He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face.

The new initiative would extend that opportunity to roughly one-third of all mortgages that aren't backed by federal entities and instead are owned by banks or were bundled by private firms that sold them off to investors as mortgage-backed securities.

The opportunities seemed roughly equal, so he let his wife, Ashley, decide which team he should sign with.

At the time incomes and opportunities were roughly similar across the small number of states who signed.

As prospective buyers, blacks were presented 17 percent fewer homes and Asians 15 percent fewer homes, but Hispanics were given the opportunity to see roughly the same number of homes as whites.

In their secondary round earlier this year, they gave all employees the opportunity to take roughly 16percentt of their stake in the company off the table.

According to an estimate produced by my office -- and referred to in a New York Times editorial last week -- New York City could lose the opportunity to bring roughly $155 million in federal funds into the city because of its refusal to accept this provision without conditions.

Title IX has helped bring about these changes by requiring educational institutions to provide girls and women with athletic opportunities that are roughly in proportion to their numbers on campus.

According to the Associated Press, former Apprentice star Omarosa Manigault left her gig at the White House Tuesday to "pursue other opportunities," after spending roughly a year doing a job that even she couldn't clearly explain.

With encouragement and opportunity, many of the roughly 424,000 children in America's foster system go on to lead successful lives.