Sentence examples for the mere chance from inspiring English sources

The mere chance that the French might vote again is enough to give Brussels the vapours.Or consider the position of Britain's Tony Blair.

In all cases, there are a multitude of gadgets that promise to alleviate our woe and a lot of us are prepared to risk sizeable chunks of our cash for the mere chance of a magic fix.

In the mid-1980s, theough the mere chance of misrouted Park Service mail, the Davis report reached the desk of another service historian (and previous Disunion contributor), Dwight Pitcaithley, in the Service's Boston office.

But it seems that the mere chance that one of them might subsequently be revealed to have used PEDs was enough to keep them out.Needless to say, the voters have shown no consistency over the years regarding which sins disqualify a player from consideration for the Hall.

But as these plucky children struggle for the mere chance to get an education, which the daft aunt is stubbornly impeding, young kids in the audience will no doubt find they have learned something about the relative ease of their own lives.

In exchange for the mere chance to be invited to test the service, chief executive T.A. McCann got from users behavioral data, feature ideas and marketing leads all for free.

It was by the merest chance, that I breakfasted with her at all, as I do not know her well... View Article By John Cassidy By Alan Burdick By Atul Gawande By Lidija Haas.

It was only by the merest chance that a visiting medic had been up on a balcony that day and recorded a fuzzy minute of the action on his mobile phone.

The alliance system had never been designed to cope with the growing instability of the region, and when by the merest chance a Bosnian terrorist, Gavrilo Princip, was standing in the right place on the pavement in Sarajevo to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand on that fateful day in June 1914, a confrontation was triggered between Austria and Serbia for which no one had a prepared script.

Through their correspondence, Bentley learned that from Newton's point of view, the positions of the planets relative to one another and especially to the sun indicate that mere chance, or the ordinary physical interactions of the planetary bodies, could not have placed each planet in precisely the right orbit to maintain a solar system like ours for an extended period of time.

However, the intervention area and several of the control areas are small geographical areas, which increase the risk that mere chance affects the estimates.