Sentence examples for ordinary chances from inspiring English sources

John Stuart Mill endorses the idea of a procreational duty not to bring a person into existence unless the person will have "at least the ordinary chances of a desirable existence" (see Mill 1859, 301 304).

In Chester Arthur, the public had an homme moyen sensuel, a man ensnared by a more than ordinary chance to fulfill his ordinary appetites.

Even under ordinary circumstances, her chances of exoneration are slim.

These possible responses to Milne's argument make it reasonable to conclude that single-case chance is consistent and an integral part of our ordinary beliefs about chance.

Lots of cable networks offer ordinary people the chance to become famous.

Technology has afforded ordinary people a chance to glow in the cosmos of human achievement.

These included such gestures as opening up the prime minister's official residence to walk-in visitors and giving ordinary Pakistanis a chance to telephone the prime minister.

It was a precursor of reality television in giving ordinary people a chance to become famous for eccentric, often pointless, tasks.

BlackRock is putting together an investment fund that it says will give ordinary Americans a chance to profit from the financial bailouts that they are paying for.

It seemed to offer ordinary people a chance to get rich quick: one man, sifting through the dirt at the bottom of a stream, might conceivably find enough gold to retire on.

He returned from the Civil War believing "in a more humane socialism, in a more radical democracy, and in a revolution of some sort as necessary to give the ordinary people the chance to beat Fascism".