Sentence examples for the chance instead from inspiring English sources

Many pass up the chance, instead simply expressing gratitude.

Any other guy, to score a goal, make a good play, he has to get patience to wait for the chance instead of trying to do too much".

Because Obama doesn't relish confrontation, he often fails to pin his opponents on the mat the first time he gets the chance; instead, perversely, he pulls back and allows foes to gain oxygen.

In hindsight, I should've run away to the circus when I had the chance, instead of running down the street to my friend Muffy's house.

Maureen Dowd had it about right when she wrote that "Because Obama doesn't relish confrontation, he often fails to pin his opponents on the mat the first time he gets the chance; instead, perversely, he pulls back and allows foes to gain oxygen".

He declined to empower his brother Eli to deal with the Rosetti problem when he had the chance, instead choosing to rely on the dim-witted Mickey Doyle to make a crucial decision while he went off to indulge his newfound blood lust for thieves, and ended up stuck in a basement, nearly arrested, or worse, by federal prohibition agents loyal to his rival Waxy Gordon.

Harry Kane, coveted by Palace boss Neil Warnock during the summer, was having a quiet game with all the chances instead failing to Soldado, who again fired off target in the 63rd minute.

But he was denied that chance, instead being forced to adhere to the commercial wishes of the club's owners, the chicken meat processors Venky's, by flying his team 7,000 miles for a tour of India.

All the more reason to lament the military coup that kept Egyptians from having the same chance — instead, in Egypt and elsewhere, the allure of the Islamists will continue to go unchallenged until they win and then have to run again, as failed incumbents.

Use of the words "chance" instead of "risk" for having a deaf or hearing child and "deaf or hearing" instead of "affected or unaffected" can help in removing cultural bias.

Even if these pairings are the result of chance instead of selection, it is possible that given the right physiological circumstances (e.g. high expression of the miRNAs, lack of silencing suppressor in the virus) these miRNAs would efficiently silence the predicted targets.