• But somebody gave us a chance -- just like these folks up here are looking for a chance.

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  • Amo Houghton had a rare second chance--the chance to correct his own mistakes.

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  • If you do enough tests, one will be high just by chance-- causing unnecessary anxiety and yet more tests.

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  • We also anticipate he'll have some chance -- some opportunities to have meetings on the margins of the summit.

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  • He added: "We were devastated and didn't think there was any chance - mentally - of restoring it, " he said.

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  • For Democrats, it is a chance -- although slim -- to regain control of the Senate for the first time in three congresses.

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  • Even if it had been statistically significant--that is, not due to chance--the heart risk with naproxen was only about 50%, according to the NIH.

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  • And circumstances, he emphasized, are a matter of chance--not of gift.

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  • For more information about retirement and IRAs and to read Ed's latest book, Your Complete Retirement Planning Road Map: The Leave-Nothing-to-Chance, Worry-Free, All-Systems-Go Guide, Click Here.

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  • Not a chance -- it's time to pull out your coaster-sized Epiphany One Puck, set a cold brew upon it, and connect your phone for some juice.

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  • El Pais, Spain's most widely circulated newspaper, cited unnamed anti-terror sources Wednesday as saying they believe there is a chance -- albeit small -- that Islamic terrorists would strike in Spain.

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  • They were written in the simple, sometimes awkward, sometimes grammatically incorrect, unmistakably hopeful voice of somebody who is just desperate for a chance -- just desperate to live his unlikely dream.

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  • On an out-of-town trip Carlsbad state senator Joseph Gant Jr. read a wire- service story -- by chance -- about the Lyons fiasco and got on the telephone to other Carlsbad influentials.

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  • For Mathers, the move to the Halliwell Jones Stadium - on a two-and-a-half-year deal - offers the chance to kickstart a career that has been interrupted by injury and loss of form.

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  • Wallace suggests you not base your bets on "card odds" (the 1-in-50 chance of being dealt, for example, three of a kind versus the 1-in-4, 000 chance of being dealt four of a kind).

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  • Every single decision that I make is focused on giving them that chance -- because if we want to keep moving this country forward, these are the folks who are going to get us there.

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  • Azarenka's withdrawal allowed 19-year-old Lauren Davis into the main draw, and she took her chance -- saving three match points against Madison Keys before beating her fellow American 6-1 5-7 7-6 (9-7) in the second-round match.

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  • It did seem to extend survival in a clinical trial, but there was an 18% risk that the results were simply due to chance--a statistical measure that usually causes scientists to believe results are not necessarily true.

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  • When it comes to community colleges, we are setting up programs, including with Nassau Community College, to retrain workers, including young people who may have dropped out of school, but now are getting another chance -- training them for the jobs that exist right now.

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  • When McPherson wasn't answering questions about Katie Holmes' guest turn on sophomore drama Eli Stone, he focused on the fall's two newcomers: Life on Mars, a British remake about a modern-day police detective who wakes up 35 years in the past, and Opportunity Knocks, a chance-of-a-lifetime game show from star Ashton Kutcher.

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  • But when people foul up in a spectacular fashion, especially when it involves a personal matter, Americans will give them a break and a second chance -- as long as they stand up like a man or a woman, admit they screwed up, say they're sorry and look like they damn well mean it.

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  • While critics have argued that Simeon's programme is long on promises and short on details of how he plans to implement them, many Bulgarians seem ready to give him a chance -- if for no other reason then because he seems like a fresh face on the political scene after 10 years of economic difficulties and tales of corruption.

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  • Among, say, people from either country who are studying outside their homeland (and have a better-than-average chance of becoming decision-makers), the share of trans-Aegean links would be far higher.

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  • The Red Storm matched Syracuse with 30 rebounds and 32 points in the paint, outscored the Orange 13-12 off turnovers and 14-7 on second-chance points, and even edged them 10-8 on the fast break.

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  • For urban areas like New York or Los Angeles, there will be a unique--perhaps once in a generation--chance to induce middle-class people to settle down in big-city homes or condominiums.

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  • "2012 is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to change the habits of a nation, " said the 47-year-old former rower.

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  • The jury was told that there was less than a billion-to-one-chance that the DNA was not that of Stephen Lawrence.

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  • "It's an unhelpful message to say, 'It's your one-and-only-chance, '" she said.

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  • Radwanska broke back for 3-3, and Baltacha failed to convert a break-point chance for 5-5.

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  • The Secretary of State will do his best - given the chance - to calm the UVF's nerves.

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