For others, it is a chance to vent against New South Wales and Sydney.
It is a chance to examine what assumption or process or market reaction did not go as expected.
It is a chance for the public, and the Brownlees, to gain a glimpse of the Games a year ahead of time.
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But this is as much an opportunity for me to hear from you as it is a chance for me to speak.
And it is a chance to dispel some popular myths about Greeks.
For Democrats, it is a chance -- although slim -- to regain control of the Senate for the first time in three congresses.
It is a chance, too, to remember the city's remarkable history.
"It is a chance for banks and building societies to live up to their word and prove that the future of cheques is safe, " she said.
For the Liberal Democrats and their new leader, it is a chance to carve out an identity as the most forthright foe of what they hope is an unpopular reform.
There is a chance that the Senate will vote on it, and there is a chance it will pass, and there is a chance it will then be approved by the House.
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What the Olympics provides for marketers is a lesson on how to spark a movement vs. simply advertising, but more it is a chance to be part of something that has real meaning.
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For Republicans, who hold a 55 to 45 majority in the upper chamber, it is a chance to widen their majority if they are not stung too badly by any potential backlash from the impeachment proceedings.
More than that, it is a chance to frighten the BBC ahead of the publication of the Leveson report on the press in the wake of the phone hacking scandal, due in the next few weeks.
It is a chance Mr Fischer has spent much of his life working for, as environment minister in the state of Hesse and most recently as the Greens' parliamentary leader in Bonn, and he is desperately anxious it should not slip away.
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For these kids, suffering from diseases such as hemophilia, sickle cell anemia and cancer, it is a chance to see past the walls of the hospital to what the world might be like if a diagnosis didn't control their every move, if clinics and hospital rooms weren't like second homes.
It is a chance to stay in the country legally for six years, and then to apply for a green card in one of the categories that currently exist as a skilled or unskilled worker or family member, to get to the back of the line, to pay a fine, to learn English, to pay taxes.
But it is also a chance for China to show it can exercise its new influence responsibly.
It is also a chance to commune, as it were, with Crazy Horse.
It is also a chance to practice their field with resources absent at home.
If it is Swiss, there is a good chance it is only there because of Dr. Nicholas G.
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Or at least, it is a welcome chance to do so with the full blessing of the team hierarchy.
"It is a big chance for Africa to achieve, " he added.
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For the Tuareg and Wodaabe nomads of the Sahara desert it is a fleeting chance to enjoy the pleasures of communal living before leaving with their herds.
One of them laughed and mumbled, "But then we might catch a cold, it is not worth taking a chance like that".
European leaders have to wake up and realize they need to talk their rescue plan up if it is to have a chance of succeeding.
Video on demand might be a flop, but there is a chance that it will be a bonanza.
If - with a bit of help from Labour and its leader - he can persuade large numbers of people he really is in with a chance of winning then it is just possible he really could start a bandwagon.
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