(n.) A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.
(n.) The operation or activity of such agent.
(n.) The supposed effect of such an agent; something that befalls, as the result of unknown or unconsidered forces; the issue of uncertain conditions; an event not calculated upon; an unexpected occurrence; a happening; accident; fortuity; casualty.
(n.) A possibility; a likelihood; an opportunity; -- with reference to a doubtful result; as, a chance to escape; a chance for life; the chances are all against him.
(n.) Probability.
(v. i.) To happen, come, or arrive, without design or expectation.
(v. t.) To take the chances of; to venture upon; -- usually with it as object.
(v. t.) To befall; to happen to.
(a.) Happening by chance; casual.
(adv.) By chance; perchance.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the percentage of rabbit feed is very small compared to the bulk of animal feeds, there is a fair chance that rabbit feed will be contaminated with constituents (additives) of batches previously prepared for other animals.
(2) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
(3) It is a moment to be grateful for what remains of Labour's hard left: an amendment to scrap the cap was at least tabled by John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn but stood no chance.
(4) In this way they offer the doctor the chance of preventing genetic handicaps that cannot be obtained by natural reproduction, and that therefore should be used.
(5) The M&S Current Account, which has no monthly fee, is available from 15 May and is offering people the chance to bank and shop under one roof.
(6) The hosts had resisted through the early stages, emulating their rugged first-half displays against Manchester United and Arsenal here this season, and even mustered a flurry of half-chances just before the interval to offer a reminder they might glean greater reward thereafter.
(7) The visitors did have a chance to pull another back with three minutes remaining but Henry blazed a free-kick from within range on the left over the bar, summing up Wolves’ day out in the East Midlands.
(8) Lipoprotein(a) was discovered by chance by Berg in 1963; after twenty years of research, the chemical, physical and metabolic characteristics of Lp(a) are now known.
(9) There was a greater chance for the regeneration of a connective tissue attachment in nongrafted intrabony defects than in grafted defects; new cellular cementum formed equally well on old cementum, dentin, or both old cementum and dentin in the same defect.
(10) Don't we by chance come across this reciprocal spiral perspective when two people distrust one another without actually showing it?
(11) All 17 candidates are going to be participating in debate night and I think that’s a wonderful opportunity Reince Priebus Republican party officials have defended the decision to limit participation, pointing out that the chasing pack will get a chance to debate separately before the main event.
(12) The review will now be delayed for five years, leaving the next election to be fought on the existing constituency boundaries, and seriously damaging David Cameron's chances of winning an overall majority in 2015.
(13) Nevertheless, Richard Bacon MP, a member of the Public Accounts Committee, who has tirelessly tracked failings in NHS IT, said last night: "I think the chances that Lorenzo will be turned into a credible and popular product are vanishingly small.
(14) This may help in selecting drugs with good chances of being effective in patients with HIV-related disease.
(15) After all, as Albarella says: “There aren’t any second chances with water.
(16) Tottenham not interested in topping Arsenal, says Mauricio Pochettino Read more The second half was less frenetic, with the space much tighter and the chances fewer.
(17) The morning papers, like many papers last week, were full of stories about Brown's survival chances.
(18) Case 1: A 63-year-old woman, who had no urological symptoms, was pointed out of a cystic mass in the left kidney by chance.
(19) The patient with a cholesteatoma in an only hearing ear presents a management dilemma: how best to treat the patient to minimize the chances of developing a severe hearing loss in that ear.
(20) There was praise for existing programmes such as the Ferguson Youth Initiative, which gives young people the chance to earn a bike or a computer.
Suffrage
Definition:
(n.) A vote given in deciding a controverted question, or in the choice of a man for an office or trust; the formal expression of an opinion; assent; vote.
(n.) Testimony; attestation; witness; approval.
(n.) A short petition, as those after the creed in matins and evensong.
(n.) A prayer in general, as one offered for the faithful departed.
(n.) Aid; assistance.
(n.) The right to vote; franchise.
(v. t.) To vote for; to elect.
Example Sentences:
(1) Can the protests, which tried, ultimately without success, to wrestle genuine universal suffrage from Beijing, be called a failure?
(2) This included guaranteeing: independence of the judiciary, the rule of law and our rights and freedoms and, in particular, that we would move steadily towards genuine universal suffrage.
(3) Beijing has promised universal suffrage for elections for the chief executive in 2017 and for the legislature by 2020.
(4) In 1819, the area of Manchester then known as St Peter's Field was the scene of a watershed moment in the struggle for universal suffrage, when around 15 protesters were variously bayoneted, shot and trampled to death in the so-called Peterloo Massacre .
(5) The early suffrage movement wanted to protect women as well as give them a modicum of power.
(6) It also somehow knows that, when I’m at the office, I often listen to Vivaldi concertos on YouTube, that I was (until now) a secret fan of even terrible police procedurals and that I have an interest in – as they term it, but I never have – suffrage, though I’ve neither liked nor posted about any of those things.
(7) Beijing has promised universal suffrage for the election of its chief executive from 2017, but reformers are angry about restrictions that have been imposed on the process, including tight control of candidates by a nomination committee stacked with pro-Beijing loyalists.
(8) It was the first time in the period of mass suffrage that a government had actually increased its majority twice in succession.
(9) Beijing has said it will implement its promise of universal suffrage for the election of the next chief executive in 2017, but protesters say it is “fake” democracy because the candidates will be tightly controlled by a committee stacked with Beijing loyalists.
(10) Wells wasn’t just an African-American civil rights leader, member of the women’s suffrage movement and newspaper editor.
(11) While mainland authorities have promised Hong Kong universal suffrage by 2017 they will only allow a voting system in which they choose the candidates.
(12) The demand on the part of the occupiers when it comes to the constitutional development, especially universal suffrage to elect the chief executive in 2017, is also very clear, so I don’t see any point in resisting the court order.” Protesters have demanded the resignation of Leung and the introduction of civic nominations for elections of the next chief executive in 2017.
(13) Lau reiterated that the framework set out by Beijing for universal suffrage should be followed if Hong Kong wanted electoral reform, the South China Morning Post reported.
(14) Another promise was suffrage, and at the heart of the current movement – called the Umbrella Revolution or Occupy Central – is the demand that Hong Kong residents be allowed to choose Hong Kong’s leaders themselves, instead of having candidates pre-vetted by Beijing.
(15) So that means that our messages, more than ever, need to heard, because there is this delusional element to it all.” She’s right – despite suffrage for women being won almost a century ago, gender inequality remains stubbornly entrenched.
(16) Given the uniform hostility, in a context of recent noises by both senior Liberals and Tories, to the effect that AWSs may have to be introduced if local activists persist in discriminating against women, you can see this developing into a cross-party movement, rather like the old National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage, quoted earlier, dedicated to protecting Westminster from further female colonisation.
(17) Acceptance of the law would have meant that slavery remained legal, that homosexuality was a criminal offence and that women were wrong to campaign for universal suffrage.
(18) "But it does seem a shame to use someone who voted against female suffrage to erase the last woman from our currency."
(19) In terms of fostering debate about the nature of our democracy, well, the impact is limited – and yet an attitude of "politics belongs to the experts", a hangover from the days of restricted suffrage, still lingers.
(20) Gradually, I realised that since the 19th century, the labour movement had awakened interest in what earlier generations of workers had done and thought, and campaigns for women’s suffrage had resulted in both chronicles of emancipation and research into the lives of poor women.