Sentence examples for string of opportunities from inspiring English sources

Poland were not at their best and Ukraine can rue a string of opportunities untaken.

He has passed up a string of opportunities to embarrass the government, thereby helping to boost Mr Berlusconi's popularity, which has risen since the election.

The letter appears to have been the last in a string of opportunities for Mr. Thompson, while director general, to have gotten a fuller picture of Mr. Savile and the "Newsnight" program.

This libretto provided him with a string of opportunities to convey, through music of almost classical restraint and elegance, states of longing, anguish, fury and, a Rossini specialty, confusion.

DES MOINES, Aug. 19 — In this presidential election season, there have been debates piled upon debates, a string of opportunities for candidates to be sized up alongside one another.

Second, fuelling this argument right now is a boon for the FN: Whatever gratification other s may find in the endless accusations that "a leopard doesn't change its spots" – the fact is that this leopard is getting an awful lot of airtime and a neverending string of opportunities to appear shocked in unison, renewed in its sense of collective condemnation.

It was one of a string of missed opportunities the designer now fondly, somewhat wistfully, recalls.

Along the way, I noticed that while I was carrying the sign, Sorenstam missed a string of birdie opportunities.

His story is a moving account of loneliness: "It seems to me sometimes that life is little more than a long string of missed opportunities and connections".

But when the professors and pundits sit down to write the history of Campaign 2000, they will find a string of missed opportunities and blunders by both candidates.

It was one of a string of lost opportunities, the administration official said, that may be the only thing in common between Mr. Clinton's White House and Mr. Bush's.