Sentence examples for slim opportunity from inspiring English sources
Sanchez said some former players with good grades had intentionally botched their college admission tests, hoping to foil their already slim opportunity for an athletic scholarship.
Last week she took around 100 Congress politicians to the home of Mr Singh, supporting him after a special court ruled that he must appear next month, as an accused, over a massive coal scandal.The prosecution of the former prime minister (if it happens) could be a slim opportunity for Congress as well as a threat.
Paraguayans aren't like Americans, Marcos said, who abandon their families at the first slim opportunity.
This is why it's essential to think beyond these two paths off the same cliff: for all the nightmares it's created, the blank abstraction of a referendum result really does offer some slim opportunity to introduce something new.
Its proposal to buy half of Iusacell, a small mobile operator, was blocked by the CFC on the ground that the other half of the company is owned by TV Azteca, Televisa's main rival in television.New technology offers Mr Slim opportunities, too: it could allow him to invade Televisa's turf.
Though state officials and other experts express skepticism about the gas field, Delano officials sense opportunity in even the slim chance that the speculation will prove true.
The real damage he does lies not in the slim chance of his re-entering government but in the opportunity cost his presence imposes.
There are some upcoming states in which Gingrich might have a slim chance -- the May 22nd contests in Arkansas and Kentucky strike me as the ripest opportunities.
"The report shows that we only have the slimmest of opportunities remaining to avoid unthinkable damage to the climate system that supports life as we know it," explained Amjad Abdulla, an IPCC board member.
With The Lego Movie and recent Oscar-winner Frozen on the wan, there is a slim window of opportunity for Peabody to lay down deeper roots before Disney launches Muppets Most Wanted on 21 March.
