It would require a complaint in court, which would have little or no chance of making progress.
Customs and Excise would be out of pocket, with little or no chance of recovering the VAT to match the refund.
"We are going back to when I was a kid and you had little or no chance of going to university, " he said.
Another possibility is the creation of a new class of immigrants who have legal residency but little or no chance of becoming American citizens.
Experts told the court the car was still travelling at speed on impact and had little or no chance of stopping when the driver saw stationary traffic.
"In this highly-competitive graduate jobs market, new graduates who've not had any work experience during their time at university have little or no chance of landing a well-paid job with a leading employer, irrespective of the university they've attended or the academic results they achieve, " said Martin Birchall, managing director of High Fliers Research.
Contenders with narrow sectional, racial or ideological appeal thus have no chance of triumphing.
With little education and, often, poor English skills, they were stuck in limbo, a world of minimum wage jobs with no chance of security or bettering their lives.
It has cost us hundreds of thousands of pounds to pursue this judgement and we did so knowing that System 2 Security Limited was just a shell of a company with little or no assets so we had little chance of seeing any compensation from them.
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This, it believes, represents a truer picture of those who are so deprived that they no longer have the chance or choice to improve their lives.
Also, suppose that 15 years ago China had faced an outside world with closed commercial doors and no chance to trade much or get a lot of foreign investment.
Tuesday's Stormont session, which rubber-stamped the executive's agreement to extend the cross community compromise over the justice department, was rather more predictable than Tuesday's Dail sitting, when Enda Kenny confirmed that the Irish people would be given their chance to say yes or no to the European fiscal compact.
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Democrats dismissed the bills, which had no chance of clearing the Senate or surviving a presidential veto, as ideological showboating.
But most of seed fell in places where there was no chance they would grow, or was swept up and stolen.
She arrived so late that producers had no chance to chat to her, or assess her condition, he told BBC Radio 1.
But if he is a murderer or something along those lines whereby he has no possible chance of being released then that brings up a different scenario.
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With no chance of either team winning it all or being completely forced out, part of the incentive structure that motivates players in commercial markets would be eliminated.
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However, a study carried out by the University of Michigan Cancer Centre has concluded that women with the genes have no extra chance of either cancer recurrence, or these side-effects.
It was Rose who nurtured what was best and noble in me, and convinced me to take a chance on myself no matter the cost or what others might think.
The treaty has no chance of entering into force for a decade or more.
But there was no chance now of hearing music from the train or being able to make out a human being.
With the economy in complete free fall there were no private investors or companies out there willing to take a chance on the auto industry.
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Liberia travel to Bamako with a squad made up entirely of home-based players as the government refuses to give the team any financial backing saying the Lone Star have no chance of qualifying for either the World Cup or Nations Cup.
Since a Buffett tax has no chance of getting through a Republican controlled House (or, for that matter, the Senate, where the filibuster gives Republicans a veto), why sweat the details?
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So, we had no advance notice and no chance to discuss these articles, to respond to them or in any way to react.
And while no one in or out of government believes that these negotiations have any chance of leading to a peace deal, the fact is that Netanyahu is feverishly working to ensure that the talks continue.
No matter how the judge or jury rules, the case has as much chance of definitively settling the underlying questions as the Scopes Monkey Trial definitively settled issues about creation and evolution.
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Town Hall Investment Research analyst Jamie Townsend this morning took a close look at the potential buyers for all or parts of the BlackBerry handset maker, and concludes that there is almost no chance the company will be taken out before the BlackBerry 10 launch in early 2013.
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And there is no chance of anyone being allowed to head it, kick it, or play keepie-uppie with it.
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And unlike Mr Cook, he stands no chance at all of lowering his profile until some act of man or God thins out the traffic and makes the trains run on time.
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