Sentence examples for sudden opportunities from inspiring English sources

Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and past president of the Council on Foreign Relations, persuasively argues that the most effective presidents try to fashion a coherent strategy, explain it forthrightly to the public and resist the temptation to be distracted by sudden opportunities and crises.

Science is based on authorities, fixed rules, and theory, not on sudden opportunities, strategic chances, and a pragmatic view of the customer and the market.

Kim is shown working patiently to achieve this goal until a sudden opportunity knocks.

"This is kind of sooner than I thought," he said of his sudden opportunity.

Beck's attention has given her a sudden opportunity to air her political views.

But the snowstorm also created a sudden opportunity for those in the business of cleaning up nature's mess.

Karjakin's sudden opportunity will appeal to Moscow officials who in Soviet times regarded the world crown as their private fief.

Watford's players were confronted by sudden opportunity when they were still in the sanctuary of the dressing room as Cardiff took the lead at the KC Stadium, but hope appeared to die when Hull scored twice in five minutes.

A sudden opportunity to dispose of this pet sets in motion a pitch-black comic plot in which a janitor with a taste for dog soup and a spacey bookkeeper with a hero complex also figure prominently.

This is fatal for the maturing of any medium, as the fundamental need to tell a story, or to conjure a subtlety of mood, is trounced and swept aside by the sudden opportunity to show off.

Unlike on "Mad Men," where Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce and Cutler Gleason & Chaough were brought together by a sudden opportunity to land a plum assignment from Chevrolet, the catalyst for Allen & Gerritsen and Neiman's joining forces was conversations among the principals of the two agencies over several years while attending meetings of the American Association of Advertising Agencies.