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fair chance

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fair chance, sporting chancenoun

    a reasonable probability of success

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fair chance in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fair chance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of fair chance in a Sentence

  1. Michael Underhill:

    There remains a fair chance that all of Vale's dams (which exceed 100 in count) will also be coming under great scrutiny going forward.

  2. Gregory Gleaves:

    I felt like we had to give it a fair chance, I think we did. We've given it a four-year chance, they feel as if it's been imposed upon them from Washington.

  3. Eli Manning:

    I was not involved in any of that process in any way, so I don’t know the details, i know the Giants organization. I know they do everything possible to give everybody a fair chance. They don’t care — minority or not — they are looking for the best possible candidate. They are going to do everything properly to look for that perfect candidate. So, I don’t think there was any wrongdoing there.

  4. Ulysses S. Grant:

    Social equality is not a subject to be legislated upon, nor shall I ask that anything be done to advance the social status of the colored man, except to give him a fair chance to develop what there is good in him, give him access to the schools, and when he travels let him feel assured that his conduct will regulate the treatment and fare he will receive.

  5. John Hickenlooper:

    I was against it from the beginning because we were worried about a spike in teenage consumption, so we had to put in a system, even though I opposed it, to make sure that we gave it a fair chance to work -- states are the laboratories of democracy.


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