Given me the opportunity to choose strength and victory.

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Chavez's victory gives him "the opportunity to consolidate his policies" and also reaffirms the approach his government has taken to international relations, said Miguel Tinker Salas, a Latin American history professor at Pomona College in California.

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However, Watford ended Rangers' unbeaten start to the campaign with an emphatic 3-1 victory at Loftus Road in December and they wasted no opportunity to try to pressurise a defensive unit that had lost keeper Paddy Kenny to injury during the warm-up.

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For his part, 27-year-old Simpson admitted he would not be taking Smith lightly, but added that he sees victory as an opportunity to step into the void in Scottish Boxing that was left by former World Champion Scott Harrison.

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Top of his mind, though, is this week's Lloyds TSB Tri-Series in Aberdeen against Ireland and New Zealand, one which the hosts are viewing as an opportunity to pick up their first-ever victory over a Test playing nation.

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As well as his personal victory, he also saw it as an opportunity to strike at the heart of Rupert Murdoch's News International, which owned the Sunday tabloid.

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Northampton missed the opportunity to open their account when fly-half Myler, whose four misses cost them the chance of an away victory over Wasps last Sunday, failed to find the target with a simple penalty attempt.

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