Opportunities

Examples

• Before leaving this period of his career, it is to be noted that it gave Edison many favorable opportunities. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A little too much, indeed, to have the opportunities opened to me by Mr and Mrs Boffin, appropriated by a mere Secretary and Pa's lodger! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• My dears, though still young, I have had many opportunities of observing young men. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The opportunities for study which the Commissioners had must have made these empty spaces evident. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Surely Mrs. Fisher could no longer charge Miss Bart with neglecting her opportunities! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• This was quite human, very clannish and Corsican, and it helps us to understand just how he valued his position and the opportunities before him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If you should think our views and opportunities at all likely to coincide, perhaps you will let him know my available position. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I am afraid we present opportunities to people to do wrong, that never ought to be presented. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Well, you will have opportunities enough of endeavouring to recommend yourself, for we are a great deal together. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Equally momentous were the times in Europe, where the attempt to secure opportunities of expansion as well as larger liberty for the individual took quite different form. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But they indicate the possibilities--greater to-day than ever before--of using active occupations as opportunities for scientific study. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He wanted wider opportunities for the exploitation of Syria, north Africa, and so forth by Parisian financial groups. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• So I shall have time gradually to make her familiar with my hopes, as opportunities offer. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It is impossible to say what violent measures he may take next, unless we make the most of our opportunities while we have them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• On the contrary, men engaged in other professions find, as a rule, that they improve and advance with experience, and that age brings larger rewards and opportunities. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Now that they were swept away it became apparent how unprepared men were for the creative opportunities this clearance gave them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is but a question of time, of skilful propagandism, and of opinion-making men seizing historic opportunities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Especially as I should have many opportunities, afterwards, of treating that woman, his mother, in her own style. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I took one of these opportunities of mentioning my doubts of Mr. Skimpole as a good adviser for Richard. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The other effects are perhaps obvious, and the field and opportunities are absolutely unlimited. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To furnish these opportunities is to add to the resources of life, and only a doctrinaire adherence to a misunderstood ideal will raise any objection to them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But intellectually and morally their successors at the Lateran and the Vatican[354] were not equal to their opportunities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Even if this country were comfortably well-off, healthy, prosperous, and educated, men would go on inventing and creating opportunities to amplify the possibilities of life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Regard must be had to their traditions, their opportunities, and their limitations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He may find opportunities of hearing the living voice of a great teacher. Plato. The Republic.
• But the vision of the new statecraft in centering politics upon human interests becomes a creator of opportunities instead of a censor of morals, and deserves a fresh and heightened regard. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It places the heritage from the past in its right connection with the demands and opportunities of the present. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The task of civilizing our impulses by creating fine opportunities for their expression cannot be accomplished through the City Hall alone. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• So much for those who now have the poorer economic opportunities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• She appreciates me better than any one else here; but then she has more intimate opportunities of knowing me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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