Sentence examples for shape the chances from inspiring English sources

It is also true that Roberts and O'Driscoll's bodies are not in prime shape; the chances of both lasting 80 minutes may well have been too slim for the head coach's liking.

Essentially, employers' expectations of an employee based on status, gender, or role shape the chances of that employee's opportunity to take on greater and "valuable" responsibility (Correll and Ridgeway 2008).

Ultimately, it is the multiplicity of socioeconomic factors at both the individual and community levels that shape the survival chances of children in urban environments.

The pace of childbearing, parity and maternal age have similarly been listed among important factors that shape the survival chance of children in developing countries (Hossain and Islam 2008; Kembo and Van Ginneken 2009; Manda 1999; Mturi and Curtis 1995).

The company admits some culpability; that some of its staff misinterpreted readings regarding the pressure in the well, and that BP workers only used six centralisers – which keep the well bore hole in shape and reduce the chances of a leak – when BP had intended them to use 21.

"We stayed on the front foot, we kept working on our shape and believed the chances would come.

— Faded Youth "I've come to learn that if Palin is involved in anything in any way, shape, or form, then the chance of batshit insane things happening increases exponentially.

It is a body shape so unattainable that the chances of a woman naturally having her proportions are fewer than one in 100,000.

They think that by taking care over the timing and manner of its departure America may still be able to shape events and diminish the chances of leaving mayhem behind.

Creating this rectangular shape helps to decrease the chances of the wrapper rolling shut prematurely.

Juries have systematically been shaped — rigged — to heighten the chances of conviction, and thus imposition of the ultimate punishment.