Sentence examples for serious opportunities from inspiring English sources

But as one pundit put it, so far there are more meetings on investing in nanotechnology than there are serious opportunities to punt.

Watching Arab pundits criticize Arab governments, Israel or the United States — common fare on Arab satellite television — is great vicarious satisfaction for ordinary men and women who live in political cultures that deny them serious opportunities for free speech.

The fact is that state-regulated projects developed in association with the Empire State Development Corporation provide for no serious opportunities for citizens to become engaged in planning for their neighborhoods.

Schlumberger encounters a lot of resistance among female university students to the notion that they might want to work in science and engineering companies, so it has done a lot to get "women to believe that we have serious opportunities for them".

The second George Bush has a serious opportunity to be elected president only eight years after his father left office.

In Scotland, a serious opportunity to do just this has been lost because of next month's election.

Its additional debt has meant the loss of its investment-grade status; but cashflow is good and it now has a serious opportunity to grow in China.

But it was inspired by an idea floated at the FCC earlier this year by Cablevision, a second-tier cable-TV operator that had sniffed a serious opportunity.

"In the middle of the circus atmosphere of the recall is a serious opportunity for change, and we've got to go at it," she said.

"He's been here for 22 years, and becoming speaker is the first time he's had a real serious opportunity himself to lead an effort to do something big for this country in terms of getting spending under control.

It must take this as a serious opportunity to elect fresh young faces and address its issues – not as an opportunity to further polarise the party and consolidate power.