Sentence examples for vital chances from inspiring English sources

Blues turned down early kickable penalties, but a misfiring set-piece cost them vital chances and it took 27 minutes to break the deadlock as scrum-half Williams jinked his way over at close quarters for Anscombe to convert.

But for Israel, the visit also offered a vital chance to shore up the budding friendship with China.

Here are two perspectives: Switching off offers a vital chance to realign your priorities and regain some perspective.

The conference is a vital chance to renew political commitment for sustainable development at a time when urgent action must be taken to divert humanity from disaster.

Paradoxically, as a profit-driven organisation that must reflect the values of our sexist society, Facebook offers gender activists a vital chance to confront, contest and change permissive attitudes to violence against women.

For conservatives, it is a vital chance to rein in what they see as Obama's imperial overreach: an undemocratic power grab that ignored the wishes of elected representatives in Congress who have refused to take up reform legislation.

The kidnapping of the president of a leading football club and, later, his wife within the past two months has highlighted the authorities' seeming helplessness over organised crime.What scandalises ordinary Bulgarians is that their country, the poorest in the EU, is missing a vital chance to modernise.

Baroness Morgan said: "Ultimately, [the Government] has a responsibility to explore all avenues that could reduce barriers to drug access; by not engaging more seriously with the issues raised in the Bill and by letting this vital chance go to waste, they are letting patients down".

The sense of a vital chance missed was emphasised five minutes later as McCabe showed Australia's clinical side to end Wales' resistance.

Though she knows her fate pales in comparison to wider changes afoot, she lost valuable training time and a vital chance to compete on home soil.

The region has large numbers of not only war veterans but also union members and conservative Democrats whose support is seen as vital to his chances of winning Pennsylvania's 23 electoral votes.