Chance Sentence Examples
You had your chance to solve it on your own.
What a chance those girls have missed!
All I want is a chance to speak my piece.
He hung up before I had a chance to end the call.
Well, we finally have the chance to be alone.
I mean, one you have a chance of winning.
I considered taking the chance of phoning from the comfort of my apartment but realized the foolishness of taking such a chance.
Dusty and Talon rose, Talon taking the chance to launch himself at Dusty.
Today, we discover things like "Wellbutrin helps people stop smoking" through chance and dumb luck.
You may not have another chance to ask me what you want to know.
AdvertisementI'll ask leave to go to the front, this may be my only chance of seeing the Emperor.
I never got the chance to pick up his.
Let's pick her while we have the chance, before the man with the star comes back.
Worst of all, she had probably ruined any chance she had with him.
There's a chance it might be the vehicle we're looking for.
AdvertisementThe evening was young and she had ruined his chance to spend it with Mary.
If only she could have one more chance.
I thought maybe you were giving me the chance to say no - giving me a chance to save my pride.
She would determine which case had the best chance of success.
It is as if I were glad of a chance to take advantage of his being alone and despondent!
AdvertisementIt's only two blocks, and it gives me a chance to wake up.
Any chance you have a contact number?
It seems worth while, however, to quote from some of her chance bits of writing, which are neither so informal as her letters nor so carefully composed as her story of her life.
He is perhaps the sanest man and has the fewest crotchets of any I chance to know; the same yesterday and tomorrow.
There's a good chance they'll spot him.
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Hated the hot and stickies of Norfolk weather and was always after me to transfer him back to Scranton—fat chance of that—or to some bread-basket state out west.
Had it not been for a chance remark, Katie wouldn't have been aware of her ignorance.
But his subordinate rank gave him no chance to impart a greater measure of energy to the naval operations.
It gives everyone a chance to make her case and be heard.
He leaned his elbows on the table with his pen in his hand and, evidently glad of a chance to say quicker in words what he wanted to write, told Rostov the contents of his letter.
There are many stories of his getting to know an officer in just such a chance way and attaching him to himself!
It was a unique chance to show his devotion to the Emperor and he had not made use of it....
And I said, "I should have known you had I met you by chance," and I thought to myself, "Am I telling the truth?"
I want to meet that man whom I despise, so as to give him a chance to kill and laugh at me!
It is natural for a man who does not understand the workings of a machine to imagine that a shaving that has fallen into it by chance and is interfering with its action and tossing about in it is its most important part.
That quiet walk home was her chance to relax - that and a good book.
There's no chance some of the memory is still there?
If Howie drops into ten or twenty minutes of anyone's life, chance are all he sees is them picking their nose, reading a book or working.
Any chance you could get his ear?
I didn't take a chance on you for the reason you think.
The demon would leave nothing to chance, especially not the claiming of his mate.
She'd broken the rules from the time-before-time for a chance with Gabriel.
She never thought she had a chance of losing this round.
Maybe, just maybe, it was okay to take a chance.
I took a chance, and it paid off.
It's time you gave someone else a chance, Cynthia said with a winning smile that offered him little room to maneuver.
You'll love the baby if you give yourself a chance.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.
A truce was Kutuzov's sole chance of gaining time, giving Bagration's exhausted troops some rest, and letting the transport and heavy convoys (whose movements were concealed from the French) advance if but one stage nearer Znaim.
The offer of a truce gave the only, and a quite unexpected, chance of saving the army.
Prince Andrew noticed, however, that though what happened was due to chance and was independent of the commander's will, owing to the tact Bagration showed, his presence was very valuable.
So you want to get out of here before I get the chance?
Does that mean you're giving me another chance?
The world's our atlas if we have the guts to flip a coin and take a chance.
He recognizes you can't physically stop him; otherwise you would have when you've had the chance.
We just had to do the most good possible while we had the chance.
My stomach knotted with the knowledge this might be our last chance.
At least then we'll stand half a chance if the vamp goes ape-shit crazy.
She couldn't help thinking her life had been wasted and hoped she still had a chance to make it up to the one person who mattered.
There's no chance of that now, is there?
We'll have one chance to rip his hideout open and… Sofia watched them walk away, alone and cold.
He'd said she had a chance not only to leave, but also to help save Gabriel's life, if she did exactly as Darkyn said.
You turn down a chance to kill the Dark One?
Gabriel had been, and she was furious at herself for not taking him more seriously and for choosing to accept Darkyn's deal instead of taking a chance with Gabriel.
Did it make her a bad person for wanting the best chance at life?
He was in love with a ghost and unwilling to take a chance on you.
I won't let you think there's a chance this isn't real or permanent.
You will never have a chance with Gabriel, even when you win your deal.
I can follow the threads, but no one else can, and there's always the chance that something unexpected gets caught up in them.
Those skills give me a small chance of leaving, he reminded her.
You weren't about to take a chance that you lose her, Gabriel said, sounding baffled.
You both have a chance to make it right.
You have that chance now.
But I'm the only one who has a chance to try.
You have a chance to save yourself.
If it does, wouldn't you rather take a chance to owe me than be in debt to Darkyn?
You were so close to the end, we couldn't take a chance.
You just have to give it a chance.
I'm just asking for the chance, from both of you, to make things right.
Deep down, I convinced myself we might have a chance for custody of Martha.
If someone tampered with the real bones, we don't want to give them a chance to clean up whatever they might have left behind.
She said she'd try and call when she got the chance.
The bones—there's a chance they belonged to a man who may have gotten a high school girl pregnant.
That's where the stream is directed, although there's a fair chance of getting soaked anywhere.
And you never had a chance to talk to Billy.
I think there's a good chance it was either her or Fitzgerald.
You never did get your chance to talk to him about it.
I gave you a chance, didn't I?
The chance of anyone believing the story was practically nil.
She answered her own question before he had a chance.
I'm going to take a chance and go.
There's less chance of some sort of set up if we're both there.
There's a chance the offer for the mine was completely innocent—simply someone who was legitimately interested in The Lucky Pup and then changed his mind.
I'm taking another chance telling you, you know.
He would have killed me if I'd given him half a chance.
Somewhat, but I had to take the chance that they would be accepted as props and leave it at that.
But then the little girl Martha came forward and changed everything before I had a chance.
Besides, there was a good chance Billy would never see what Fitzgerald retrieved.
Ralph warned me, but when I insisted, he figured if we stuck together Blackie wouldn't get away with doing anything—wouldn't have a chance before we left the next day.
Why go back into the mine after all these years and take the chance of swapping the bones and getting caught?
He didn't give her the reassurance she sought about whether or not they had a real future together, and she brokered a deal with the Dark One in a desperate attempt to ensure she had a chance with Gabriel.
Andre confirmed that her tumor was gone, which meant they had a chance at a healthy relationship.
I think it starts with us giving each other a chance.
Then, he'd stop throwing up barriers and give this Deidre a chance.
For taking a chance on me.
I cared about you and the humans enough to interfere and give you a second chance.
All I wanted was a chance with you.
Our path won't be easy, but we didn't spend thousands of years trying to be together not to take the chance we have now.
For the first time in their history, they stood a real chance of turning a sordid love story into a pure one.
He wasn't about to lose her or the chance to build a life with the woman he'd loved for tens of thousands of years.
I blew my chance and now I may have destroyed yours.
Well, Mrs. Barnett, here's your chance to talk to your father-in-law – if you can fit a word in edgewise.
She'd made a decision in front of him, one that warned him this might be his last chance to reveal his secret.
For example, before you ran into her in the mortal world, there was a ninety seven percent chance you would've killed her the first time you met.
You don't want to give yourself a second chance to think it over.
You now have a thirty five percent chance of succeeding.
She ran as fast as she could, knowing it was her only chance.
There's an eighty two percent chance he'll kill you, if you're not behind those walls, the man replied.
On paper, they had a ninety percent chance of surviving the operation.
Do you have a headache by chance?
She'd been freaked out by the in-between place and wanted him to wait until they reached their destination before he had a chance to panic.
Gabriel didn't like past-Deidre and wasn't willing to give her a chance.
The tumor is still growing, which means there is still a chance at cognitive deterioration.
Gabe gave him no chance to run or fight but snatched his neck.
You tear me away from the only stability I have in my life, expect me to change my view on the entire world overnight, reject me and now, you're asking me to take a chance on something you can't guarantee.
I notice that there's only a one percent chance I get to make the decisions.
What would it take for you to trust me enough to take a chance?
They had a journey to make together before they were in a functional relationship, but they'd never have that chance, if he didn't find a way to buy them all time.
Do you want me to take the one percent chance?
Even if … even if you don't want me, I want that chance.
There was no guarantee Gabriel wanted her, but she'd have a chance.
Deidre needed that chance with him.
She quickened her pace, not wanting to end up the dinner of some demon before she had a chance to try to plan an escape.
Do what the demon says and almost have a fifty percent chance of surviving.
Disobey him and I have like, a ten percent chance.
You might have a better chance if you tell him you're you.
He will know before you have a chance to kiss him, she said, her fury building.
I sacrificed everything for the chance you would bring us together!
He'd always hoped Rhyn would have another chance, that Hell was a place to stash the dangerous immortal until the world was ready for him.
But if I don't make him dead-dead, there's a good chance this is the fate of the human world.
Gabriel wondered if even a mate and a second chance could help him.
Rhyn was being given a second chance, and Gabriel hoped he killed Sasha before the sands in the hourglass were gone.
No offense, but I'm under the impression the others didn't have a chance to object.
Her only chance at safety was across a swath of broken glass.
She bathed in the unisex shower room, grateful for the lukewarm water and the chance to scrub herself down and assess the damage.
There really was no chance of it.
He felt dread knot in his stomach at the sign she wasn't going to give Rhyn yet another chance.
She relaxed and sank into the soft leather seats of the Town Car, telling herself she was being granted a chance to be normal.
She didn.t fit in; they made it clear every chance they could, just as their leader did.
But, if he could get some use out of him before it came time to kill him, he might have a better chance of protecting Katie.
A tremor of fear went through her, and Ully crept closer, as if she had half a chance of defending them.
Have you had a chance to test the immunity blood Sasha brought?
Her draw was not as consuming as Katie.s, which meant she.d have a much better chance of surviving if not every demon and Immortal was drawn to her.
Have you seen Ully by chance?
He had one chance to make a safe life for her and their … hatchling.
I think you have a better chance of being accepted by the Immortals if you.re not my mate.
By chance, have you seen—
Maybe there was a chance he could leave Hell and come back to Kris.
Given her first chance to rest in over two days, she sighed, exhausted and irritated at having to dig her own clothing out of a box.
That there was a better chance of her selling art if she painted something no one else on earth could imagine?
I've come to offer you the chance to escape, so long as you take me to a … to a spaceship.
The chance for physical harm was too great.
At least he gave her the chance to go down fighting.
You want me … to walk away from everything I know, my family … I knew it was possible, but I didn't think I'd have a chance to go home at all … but still, I couldn't leave a whole planet to die!
He'd begun to think he'd lost any chance he had at keeping her.
Ne'Rin didn't plan on giving her any chance to live.
Or would the fact that she never gave him an answer to stay or go make him unwilling to give her a second chance?
Besides, if you don't take a chance in life, all the best opportunities will pass you by.
The highway department would periodically close the road and, using explosive devices, create slides in a controlled condition, lessening the chance for a surprising and perhaps deadly run loosed by nature on the unsuspecting below.
With all the activity over the holidays, Dean hadn't had a chance to hit the beautiful slopes of nearby Telluride.
There goes any chance of Mr. and Mrs. Dean doing any hugging and squirming tonight, Dean thought.
I haven't seen my boy in over a year and I hardly got a chance to say more than 'hi' before she scooted him downstairs.
I haven't had a chance with Bird Song packed like a sardine can.
God has given me a second undeserved chance at happiness!
I suppose if she has a chance to get lucky, she should jump on him, so to speak.
Look, at least give it a chance.
He too was troubled to distraction by Shipton's presence, enough to pass up such an obvious chance to pull Fred's leg.
Fred didn't have a chance to bellyache at the compromise before the phone interrupted.
Maybe it was left up there to implicate you, but there's a good chance it was just plain dropped by accident.
It'll give you a chance to telephone to Cynthia, too.
Maybe that'll give us a chance to talk to her.
Dean wondered how Effie would accept the final chapter of Annie's diary, once he had a chance to share it with her as Cynthia had promised.
We don't get much chance to turn the old clock back.
There's a good chance Donnie is finally about to get some psychiatric help— help a long time coming.
There's a real good chance he'll be living with us!
The doctor thinks there's a good chance he may even get over the speech problem in time.
It looked like young Donnie had a chance at life, in a home where love was in residence, instead of hatred and desperation.
Don't be stupid and take the chance!
Granted, Shipton was taking a slight chance, but a mighty slim one.
Now there was a chance she didn't kill herself.
Jackson said, I think we should stay away from populated areas, the forest is our best chance to stay hidden.
It's not as if he had a chance of getting by her.
I am so sorry about that, but you never would have given me a chance if you knew from the beginning.
They were both quiet for a moment, and then Sarah said, "Will you please give me a chance to prove that this isn't as bad as you think."
Panic set in, and he wanted to beg right there, but knew he needed to get a grip to have any chance with her.
Jackson could not help but feel she had decided to let her guard down and give him a chance.
Elisabeth opened the door before Jackson had a chance to ring the bell.
Maybe Sarah was right and he should give Elisabeth a chance to explain why she let this happen.
Jackson decided to take a chance she might be there.
I went by your house and took a chance I might find you here.
I'm sure Sarah has something prepared on the off chance you'll be there.
I think your best chance of winning Miriam over is if I talk to her.
You won't be given another chance to find her.
He was terrified, yet knew he must hide his strength if they were to have any chance.
But every dime spent on the house meant that much less she could invest in the dairy - and the dairy was the one thing that stood a chance of stimulating her anemic savings account.
I cheated him out of his chance at a good education?
If you don't want him, why don't you throw him back so she can have a chance at catching him?
The excitement at the coop had cost Alex his chance to watch a birth, but he accepted the loss in good humor.
I thought we might have a chance to talk a little.
No, it was mere chance that he was looking at her while he spoke to Katie.
Sure. It kept you're mind so busy that you're hands didn't get a chance to write.
Was there a chance for them - if she was willing to wait?
But I wouldn't want to take a chance on losing you.
It would be encouraging him - indicating there was still a chance.
She screamed, racing for the tree and knowing she didn't have a chance of outrunning the dog.
Somewhere, somehow, everyone had to release themselves to chance.
No other regular army unit has a chance out here.
I was giving you a chance to reconsider.
She didn't know how he could take the chance of hitting her, though!
Even if she had one more chance to talk to him, she wasn't sure what she'd say.
She'd never taken a chance on a man or let herself wonder what she was missing.
At least we have a chance to start over.
Most people didn't get a second chance like we did.
She may never get the chance to tell him or to apologize for their last exchange being one of anger and frustration.
But maybe, just maybe, she'd have a second chance.
The sats would be on backup power right now, eliminating her chance of communicating without drawing the fire of the missiles.
Rhyn listened to his brother pad away in the soft sand. He'd spent thousands of years in Hell wishing to be dead-dead. Tomorrow, he'd have his chance.
And then I saw how good his heart is. He's a train wreck, but he's honorable and capable of such good. Kris pulled me into this world and assumed I'd do what I was told like a good little human. But when I told Rhyn I wanted to leave him, he asked for another chance. It's like he woke up then and realized he wasn't in Hell anymore or trapped by his brothers' expectations.
I almost believed we had half a chance.
Kiki didn't have a chance to answer before the wooden door to their prison creaked open. Rhyn's head spun as he was hauled up and dragged into a well-lit hallway. Light and shadows wreaked havoc on his sense of place and time until he hit the cool stone floor again.
Maybe we should give him a second chance.
No, but I don't think he's the same Rhyn we sent to Hell. I think he deserves a chance to make things right.
I chose to sacrifice my life so that you'd have the chance to do this, Rhyn.
I don't regret it, Rhyn. You've had the deck stacked against you. The least I could do was give you a second chance.
It has nothing to do with living in Andre's shadow your whole life and now having the chance to prove yourself, she said with a faint smile.
We wouldn't have a chance.
I think we have a better chance if we go to Death's fortress.
Since I'm here, I guess it's a good thing I didn't take a chance on him.
Everyone deserves a chance at happiness, Deidre. Even rich girls running empires.
It was who he was, if he gave himself the chance to realize it.
The old man opened the door with a barrage of questions, allowing Dean no chance to escape the interrogation.
There's not a chance in a million your boy was 50 miles from the drop so don't give Baratto any excuse to clam up on me.
Dean had no way of checking Byrne's mileage and if by chance he had detoured east on Interstate 84, probably 30 miles further, instead of taking the more direct south-easterly route between Scranton and Parkside.
Then he added, "There's not much chance he's the guy we're looking for."
There would be no chance of leaving Norfolk that evening.
It's not the Top of the Mark, but I may not get another chance.
If Cleary didn't want to be located, any chance of Dean doing so now he knew someone was looking for him would be next to impossible.
There's a chance Cleary is just a cheating husband and someone is chasing him down.
If it comes out later you weren't truthful with her there's a good chance you can kiss any future goodbye.
Not knowing who would show presented a chance he might be recognized but as the eavesdropper wouldn't expect him to be there, it gave him an advantage.
Then she said, "If you believe there's a chance Jeff's alive you'd have to consider I might be a part of it."
I can't blow the chance, no matter how slim it is.
Although it was decades since Dean's Boy Scout days and he didn't relish the thoughts of bedding his exhausted body on the ground, he felt, in addition to saving money, his chance of running into his quarry in a camp ground was better.
While Dean held out no illusions of leading the pack through the mountains, after turning out 73 miles of rolling hills on a humid Saturday, he felt more confident of his chance of least not embarrassing himself.
You gotta admit, it gives me a lot better chance of checking out the crowds for Byrne.
At least glancing at the passing riders gave him the chance to carefully look them over.
It wasn't a common name and there was little chance it was a coincidence.
If he was here, that means there's a good chance he's still in the tour.
If it comes down to it and we need an ID later in the week, I can locate the Greek god guy and show him the picture, but I didn't want to take the chance this early.
There's still a chance he'll think it's another Pat Corbin who sounded familiar.
You were taking a hell of a chance.
No chance of that—that was another life.
What is the pre-marriage speech about... the last chance to back out?
Tell Bill – but tell him not to talk to Alex about it before I get a chance to.
Alex had written the Game and Fish Commissions in several western states, hoping for a chance at a mountain goat or sheep.
The odds were slim, but because his purpose was educational, he might have a chance.
Growing old and waking up some day to realize you're alone because you were afraid to take a chance.
The animals were hungry and they were the only things that stood a chance of taking her mind off Alex.
She should have walked away and given him a chance to think about it, instead of slapping that awful word from his mouth?
It had been so long, and the absence of intimacy was ruining any chance of salvaging their relationship.
He's a good looking man with money, and there are a lot of women out there who would jump at the chance to take him away from you.
He was asking for a second chance, but could they ever reclaim the relationship they had once enjoyed?
If she had been alone, she might have taken a chance crossing the field, but not with Jonathan.
But don't you think you betray him by not giving him a chance?
It was a reminder of what they once shared and lost — a lesson that for some things, there is only one chance.
Is there any chance that Lori's baby is yours?
They had another chance to build a relationship, and this time they'd do it right.
I want us to have a chance.
I won't give them that chance.
However, if attacked by Others, he preferred to level everything around them than take the chance he was the only one killed.
I know if you all stay with us, we will have less of a chance than if we're separated.
If she told him more, he might influence the paths she saw in a way that would make their slim chance of survival even slimmer.
We are here because I saw this as the only chance we really had.
You had a chance to do it in Ireland.
At some point, he'd have to snatch Yully and Charles and drag them down to the immortal world and hope they had a chance to Travel before being blasted to pieces.
They gave me a second chance.
We have a second chance now to live as we should have before.
Whether or not Jonny would ever know that same sense of peace, there was always a chance he could.
He may never have the chance to hold his own child.
I wanted Sirian to be wrong, but the attack today…I can't take that chance, Taran.
She forced herself to remember why they died, what their deaths bought - -a chance for her to live.
She darted and danced away, focused on nothing but the two torches marking her chance at freedom.
I have one chance to save you, Rissa.
With Oceanan, they may have a chance.
She didn't doubt Taran's ability to defend her kingdom - -if he ever got the chance.
She admired his newfound air of command but couldn't help resenting him for having a second chance she'd never get.
But Sirian was free, which meant whatever his plan was, he would soon have a chance to act.
Old enough to defy me every chance he had.
That gave her a chance to work with the newest horse she had bought.
It will give you a chance to work with the horses and get to know them as well as the land.
It was a chance she had to take unless she wanted to spend the rest of her life being what everyone else wanted.
What she needed most was a chance to cry.
If anyone had a chance of getting Senor Medena to listen, it was Alex.
Maybe there was a chance the situation could be resolved.
Don't take his grandchild away without giving him a chance.
Would you throw that chance away?
Was there a chance to salvage their marriage?
Maybe she shouldn't have said it, but it was something he should know if they had a chance.
If it hadn't been for the way she looked at him when she thought he wasn't looking, he wouldn't have thought there was a chance to get her back.
Surely it wasn't chance that found them both in this tiny town.
She rose and opened the window, but a breeze didn't stand a chance with the forest surrounding the cabin.
Oh, he doesn't give me a chance to get lonely.
Anyway, I take a chance every time I drive it.
Justin was going to have his chance.
She was going to have her chance.
He wasn't going to give her the chance to explain.
Do you think they'd give you a chance to save that creature?
There's no chance of rabies, is there?
I still got a chance, as long as you keep renting a new girl every night.
He didn't believe in coincidences or chance.
Not giving him a chance to argue, she ducked through the ropes and leapt to the floor.
She'd play his little games – as long as he didn't bite her – if it meant she had a second chance to get her hands on that necklace.
She shifted, ready to run if she had the chance.
She sensed he was giving her the chance to reject him.
Any chance they want what Jessi wants?
Then again, when would she ever get a chance to spend a night with someone who looked like him?
Xander didn't give her a chance to reconsider.
I didn't kill you when I had the chance.
We figured out the girl can Travel, and I have a feeling I know where she's headed, if she gets the chance, Damian added.
There was a slim chance they might've succeeded in making him disappear as well, had he been there.
They'd have to hide forever and hope he never had the chance to snatch her cousins.
She wasn't so certain she and Xander had a chance, though, especially with Jonny waiting to pounce.
Did she want a chance with him?
You stay with us, you've got a chance.
I think he hacked into Ingrid's computer and has been waiting for his chance.
If the Original Other made it, there was a chance the Original Watcher did as well.
Xander didn't say what he wanted, that he took a chance on Jessi, but she hadn't yet decided to take one on him.
She wanted a chance with him.
The one time he took a chance on someone … "We're meeting D there," Jule said and held out one fist to Xander, the other to Darian.
She wanted a chance with him, especially after witnessing the intense emotion on his face.
It was too risky hoping she'd have a second chance with him.
He could not afford to leave anything to chance.
His course was disapproved; he was recalled and brought before the council of state, which blamed his conduct without giving him a chance to justify himself.
Watson now found that he possessed no influence with the minister, and that he had destroyed his chance of the great object of his ambition, promo - tion to a better diocese.
If by any chance wrong signals are printed or the instruments get out of phase, the sender is stopped by the receiver sending a few signals, after which both type-wheels are again set to zero and correspondence continued.
But Charles Charles Albert, who, whatever his faults, had a generous Albertre- nature, was determined that so long as be had an news the army in being he could not abandon the Lombards War, and the Venetians, whom he had encouraged in their resistance, without one more effort, though he knew full well that he was staking all on a desperate chance.
Any chance of safety that lay in the friendliness of a strong party in the council was more than nullified by the bitter personal enmity of the queen, who could not forgive his share in her mother's divorce and her own disgrace.
It finds its chance in the misadventures of empiricism.
From Australia, where we have the best chance of studying rudimentary religion in some bulk, comes a certain amount of evidence showing that in the two ways just mentioned some inchoate prayer is being evolved.
His remoter descendants have no advantage of any kind over other people, except their chance of succeeding to the peerage.
The remote descendant of a duke, even though he may chance to be heir presumptive to the dukedom, is in no way distinguished from any other gentleman; it is even possible that he may not hold the social rank of gentleman.
Professedly, Herbert's contention merely is that non-Christians feeling after the " supreme God " and the law of righteousness must have a chance of salvation.
In the college itself the voting - secret and by ballot throughout - is by majority; and since this majority consists, under the actual system, of very conservative elements (the landowners and urban delegates having 8ths of the votes), the progressive elements - however much they might preponderate in the country - would have no chance of representation at all save for the curious provision that one member at least in each government must be chosen from each of the five classes represented in the college.
Physiologus had been abandoned by scholars, and left to take its chance among the tales and traditions of the uneducated mass.
It awakened fresh possibilities - successful combination against a common foe, the sinking of petty rivalries, the chance of gaining favour by a neutrality which was scarcely benevolent.
In the council lay now, to judge from his words, the only chance of salvation; and, in view of the requirements of the case, he began to argue that, in case of schism, a council could be convoked by any one of the faithful, and would have the right to judge and even to depose the rival pontiffs.
This last pamphlet brought him into a controversy with Caron de Beaumarchais, who certainly did not get the best of it, but it lost him any chance of literary employment from the government.
But, though his De la monarchie prussienne sous Frederic le Grand (London, 1788) gave him a general reputation for historical learning, he had in the same year lost a chance of political employment.
This scheme got noised abroad, and was ruined by a decree of the Assembly of the 7th of November 1789, that no member of the Assembly could become a minister; this decree destroyed any chance of that necessary harmony between the ministry and the majority of the representatives of the nation which existed in England, and so at once overthrew Mirabeau's hopes.
If they could, by some happy chance, have been left for discovery by modern economists, they would without doubt have received different treatment, to the great advantage of economic science.
The death of his father in 1304 may have determined his course, and led him to prefer the chance of the Scottish crown to his English estates and the friendship of Edward.
The tsar saw his chance of improving on the terms arranged at Tilsit; and obviously Napoleon could not begin the conquest of Spain until he felt sure of the conduct of his nominal ally.
Thus it became possible for almost any diligent reader without much chance of error to refer to its proper place nearly every bird he was likely to meet with.
Again, in 1104, the Normans, while attempting to capture Harran, were badly defeated on the river Balikh, near Rakka; and this defeat may be said to have been fatal to the chance of a great Norman principality.'
In the event of the host escaping being killed and eaten it is believed that some of these larvae wander about or ultimately make their way to the exterior, possibly through the bronchi; nevertheless it seems to be certain that they can only reach sexual maturity in the nasal passages of some carnivorous animal, and the chance of attaining this environment is afforded when the viscera of the host are devoured by some flesh-eating mammal.
The year of waiting passed away without any chance of going to the Holy Land.
Antonius the orator was elected without opposition; the other government candidate, Gaius Memmius, who seemed to have the better chance of success, was beaten to death by the hired agents of Saturninus and Glaucia, while the voting was actually going on.
The more subtle examples are inexhaustible in variety and resource; and perhaps the climax of subtlety is the almost entire absence of Leitmotif in the first scene of the third act of Gotterddmmerung, when Siegfried throws away his last chance of averting his doom.
The Confederate States were never able to form a sea-going squadron, and Tattnall had no chance to do more than make a struggle with insufficient resources on its rivers.
It was discovered by chance in 1858, having been until then hermetically sealed by a mass of limestone breccia.
Nay more, the difficulties of all kinds against which Eugenius had to contend, the insurrection at Rome, which forced him to escape by the Tiber, lying in the bottom of a boat, left him at first little chance of resisting the enterprises of the council.
She had bought property in America and thought of moving thither, but chance or fatality made her determine to publish De l'Allemagne in Paris.
But there was little chance that any change in the rubric, even in the improbable event of its receiving the sanction of parliament, would produce any appreciable effect.
While the population of Brazil continued to increase, the moral and intellectual culture of its inhabitants was left in great measure to chance; they grew up with those robust and healthy sentiments which are engendered by the absence of false teachers, but with a repugnance to legal ordinances, and encouraged in their ascendancy over the Indians to habits of violence and oppression.
The twelve who replaced the council of nine (as these had previously replaced the council of the nobles) consisted - both as individuals and as a party - of ignorant, incapable, turbulent men, who could neither rule the state with firmness nor confer prosperity on the republic. They speedily broke with the nobles, for whose manoeuvres they had at first been useful tools, and then split into two factions, one siding with the Tolomei, the other, the more restless and violent, with the Salimbeni and the noveschi (partisans of the nine), who, having still some influence in the city, probably fomented these dissensions, and, as we shall see later on, skilfully availed themselves of every chance likely to restore them to power.
Commandant Jan Mocke of Winburg (who had helped to besiege Captain Smith at Durban) and others of the " war party " attempted to induce the volksraad not to submit, and a plan was formed to murder Pretorius, Boshof and other leaders, who were now convinced that the only chance of ending the state of complete anarchy into which the country had fallen was by accepting British sovereignty.
The Epicureans regarded fate as blind chance, while to the Stoics everything is subject to an absolute rational law.
Whether it was so, or merely chance or illusion, no one knows.
If we make the extreme suppositions of an infinitely small source and absolutely homogeneous light, there is no escape from the conclusion that the light in a definite direction is arbitrary, that is, dependent upon the chance distribution of apertures.
It seems best to believe that Darius made an incursion in order to secure the frontier of the Danube, suffered serious reverses and retired with loss, and that this offered too good a chance to be missed for a moral tale about the discomfiture of the Great King by a few poor savages.
The Boers, who had failed to fulfil the conditions under which they might have secured Kosi Bay, nevertheless resented this action, which took away from them all chance of obtaining a seaport.
Measures inaccurately taken, or wrongly read off, could seldom, if ever, be corrected, and these persistent errors defeated all chance of successful search.
The insurrection was crushed, but in one of the final skirmishes a chance bullet struck General Crespo, who was in command of the government troops, and he died from the effects of the wound.
A month later the renewal of active disturbances brought on the fighting of June, and Lamartine's influence was extinguished in favour of Cavaignac. Moreover, his chance of renewed political pre-eminence was gone.
The first recognition of a disease may be at a necropsy, but then usually by irresponsible pathologists; it is another matter when the physician himself comes under rebuke for failing to seize a way to cure, while the chance remained to him, by section of the abdomen during life.
But there his stay was equally short, for in 1872 he undertook the duties of engineering manager in the glass manufactories of Messrs Chance Brothers and Company at Birmingham.
Six years later he removed to London, and while continuing to act as scientific adviser to Messrs Chance, established a most successful practice as a consulting engineer.
The efficiency of such ventilating furnaces is low, and they cannot safely be used in mines producing fire-damp. They are sometimes the cause of underground fires, and they are always a source of danger when by any chance the ventilating current becomes reversed, in which case the products of combustion, containing large quantities of carbon dioxide, will be drawn into the mine to the serious danger of the men.
The only chance of the invaders achieving their object after the first week of land fighting depended on their being joined by very substantial additional forces in a region where a belligerent fighting on the defensive in home territory, as the Osmanlis were, enjoyed marked strategical and tactical advantages.
The chief harvest is of mother of pearl, which suffices to pay the working expenses; and there is over and above the chance of finding a pearl of price.
In 1848 Bontemps was obliged to leave France for political reasons and came to England, where he initiated the optical glass manufacture at Chance's glass works near Birmingham, and this firm ultimately attained a considerable reputation in the production of optical glass, especially of large disks for telescope objectives.
Hopkinson, working at Chance's glass works, subsequently made an attempt to produce a titanium silicate glass, but nothing further resulted.
The name " patent plate " arose from the fact that certain patented devices originated by James Chance of Birmingham first made it possible to polish comparatively thin glass in this way.
Crown and German sheet-glass were made by Messrs Chance & Hartley of Birmingham.
His chance came when the empress Elizabeth, immediately after her accession, summoned him back to court, and appointed him vicechancellor.
The Democratic party nominated the one available Democrat who had the smallest chance of beating him - Horatio Seymour, lately governor of New York, an excellent statesman, but at that time hopeless as a candidate because of his attitude during the war.
By extraordinary good chance it had been overlooked by the landlady, and Coventry Patmore was able to recover it.
In consequence of a chance circumstance he entered into relations with the dauphin Louis, at that time (1455) in arms against the king his father; he attached himself to the prince, and followed him on his retreat into Burgundy.
It is a singular conception, and the results obtained depend largely on chance.
It had little chance of doing more than make speeches; the country was in the hands of an armed mob of civilians and mutinous soldiers; and, meanwhile, the grand-duke of Baden had joined with Bavaria in requesting the armed intervention of Prussia, which was granted on the condition that Baden should join the League of the Three Kings.
The fall of Pitt's first ministry and the formation of the Addington cabinet, the peace of'Amiens, and the establishment of Napoleon as first consul with all the powers of a military despot, seemed to offer Fox a chance of resuming power in public life.
In fact, after some fruitless attempts to save his brother, variously related by his biographers, Joseph became aware that Andre's only chance of safety lay in being forgotten by the authorities, and that ill-advised intervention would only hasten the end.
Both Oxford and Bolingbroke warned James that he could have little chance of success unless he changed his religion, but the latter's refusal (March 13) does not appear to have stopped the communications.
His chance for securing the nomination, however, was materially lessened by persistent charges which were brought against him by the Democrats that as a member of Congress he had been guilty of corruption in his relations with the Little Rock & Fort Smith and the Northern Pacific railways.'
Even so, more by chance than intentionally, Buell's leading division was opposite the Landing, awaiting only a ferry, on the evening before the battle; Grant, however, declined to allow it to cross, as he thought that there would be no fighting for some days.
The number and proportion of successes was too high to admit of explanation by chance coincidence, but success was not invariable.
The writer is acquainted with no experiments in which it was attempted to discern the future (except in trivial cases as to events on the turf, when chance coincidence might explain the successes), and only with two or three cases in which there was an attempt to help historical science and discern the past by aid of psychical methods.
He bitterly resented the concession of independence to Scotland by the treaty of Northampton of 1328, and the death of Robert Bruce in 1329 gave him a chance of retrieving his position.
Besides, the Germans had long since become aware of the movement in progress, and all chance of surprise was past.
Cradock preferred to fight and take the chance of inflicting injury on the German squadron, which was far from any base of refitment and repair.
The area of the grant may have been enlarged by later interpolations; or it may have dealt with property rather than with sovereignty, and have only referred to estates claimed by the pope in the territories named; or it is possible that Charles may have actually intended to establish an extensive papal kingdom in Italy, but was released from his promise by Adrian when the pope saw no chance of its fulfilment.
But Louis saw in the Spanish question a chance of more than making up for this loss.
Where the whole of the coal is removed at once there is less chance of surface damage, when the mines are deep, than with pillar workings.
Scipio's arrival in Africa in 204 gave him another chance, and no sooner had he joined the Roman general than he crushed his old enemy Syphax, and captured his capital Cirta (Constantine).
The revolutionary movement throughout Italy was breaking down, but Charles Albert felt that while he possessed an army he could not abandon the Lombards and Venetians, and determined to stake all on a last chance.
Gustavus had now to choose between proceeding to Grimma and fighting VV i allenstein on the chance that Pappenheim had not rejoined.
It would appear, however, that the production of power alcohol within the British Empire from waste materials, which can be collected and treated at low cost, offers the best chance of the solution of the problem of the supply to the United Kingdom of an alternative liquid fuel for internal-combustion engines.
To gain the best chance of success he would have to concentrate his whole army almost within gunshot of the centre of the enemies' outposts without attracting their attention; otherwise he would find the allies concentrated and waiting for him.
If the Prussians now retired northwards, parallel to the direction which Wellington would follow perforce on the morrow, the chance of co-operating in a decisive battle would still remain to the allies; and Gneisenau's order issued by moonlight, directing the retreat on Tilly and Wavre, went far to ensuring the possibility of such combined action.
The last chance of bringing about a decisive French success was thus allowed to slip away.
The lateness of the hour at which the attack was delivered, and the emperor's determination to break Wellington's centre instead of outflanking the Anglo-Dutch left and further separating the allies, deprived him of whatever chance he still possessed of beating Wellington before Blucher could intervene.
Napoleon's chance of success was dangerously diminished, if not utterly destroyed, by the incompetence of the two marshals whom in an evil hour he selected for high commands.
But in 84 Sulla crossed over from Greece to Asia, made peace with Mithradates, and turned his arms against Fimbria, who, seeing that there was no chance of escape, committed suicide.
They judged, further, that should their attempt by any chance miscarry, the Great Powers, more particularly Russia, protector of the Slav peoples, would not allow them to be crushed, or their present territories to be diminished.
In 1863 the famous Alder Gulch in Madison county was discovered and in the next year, Last Chance Gulch in the south of Lewis and Clark county.
He had a chance, however, of obtaining the gift, or at least of eating the food and drinking the water which makes the gods ageless and immortal.
Locke's retirement in 1700 removed any chance of the board of ' trade advocating more enlightened opinions on commercial subjects than those generally held.
Under the guidance of his great chancellor Griffenfeldt, Denmark seemed for a brief period to have a chance of regaining her former position as a great power.
The surrounding country abounds in goldand silver-bearing quartz deposits, and it is estimated that from the famous Last Chance Gulch alone, which runs across the city, more than $40,000,000 in gold has been taken.
Helena was established as a placer mining camp in 1864 upon the discovery of gold in Last Chance Gulch.
Here he had once more a chance of settling peaceably.
The assault on the Turkish main camp was fixed for the 6th of May; but, unfortunately, a chance skirmish brought on an engagement the day before, in the course of which Karaiskakis was killed, an irreparable loss in view of his prestige with the wild arinatoli.
Historical scholars ridiculed his mistakes, and Freeman, the most violent of his critics, never let slip a chance of hitting at him in the Saturday Review.
The Ardennes are the holiday ground of the Belgian people, and much of this region is still unknown except to the few persons who by a happy chance have discovered its remoter and hitherto well-guarded charms. There is still an immense quantity of wild game to be found in the Ardennes, including red and roe deer, wild boar, &c. The shooting is preserved either by the few great landed proprietors left in the country, or by the communes, who let the right of shooting to individuals.
It never had a chance contedera- q tion of Bar.
He kept himself in reserve till events gave him a chance to upset the president of the day, Bustamente, whom he defeated at Casas Blancas on the 12th of November 1832.
Among his own productions are a treatise, De la morale des peres, a history of ancient treaties contained in the Supplement au grand corps diplomatique, and the curious Traite du jeu (1709), in which he defends the morality of games of chance.
In each case 6 is prefixed whenever there is any chance of ambiguity.
She alone could have given the Spanish Armada any real chance of success; and as the prospect of invasion loomed larger on the horizon, fiercer grew the popular determination to remove the only possible centre of a domestic rising, without which the external attack was bound to be a failure.
Being an intelligent man, he perceived the commercial value of his chance discovery, and began the manufacture of articles which, with all the appearance of silver, were both cheaper and stronger than those made of the pure metal.
Compared with the thoroughness of most other catechisms this one seems very scanty, but it has a better chance of being memorized, and its very simplicity has given it a firm hold on the inner life and conscience of devout members of the Anglican communion throughout the world.
In the valleys of some of these denuded slopes oak and pine are succeeding the tropical species where fires have given them a chance to get a good foothold.
Some horses, good performers over any description of fence, will not jump water under any circumstances; while the chance of a ducking deters many from riding at it; and, however bold the horse may be, he will soon refuse water if his rider be perpetually in two minds when approaching it.
Horses jump them on and off, and in taking them at a moderate pace there is a chance of stopping on the top and choosing a better place to jump from, or, if needs be, of returning and taking the fence at another place.
The swiftest current te,-ids, by reason of centrifugal force, to follow the outer side of every significant curve in the channel; hence the concave bank, against which the rapid current sweeps, is worn away; thus any chance irregularity is exaggerated, and in time a series of large serpentines or meanders is developed,, the most-symmetrical examples at present being those near Greenville, Miss.
The great importance of these nominating bodies lies not only in the fact that there are an enormous number of state, county and city offices (including judicial offices) filled by direct popular election, but also in the fact that in the United States a candidate has scarcely any chance of being elected unless he is regularly nominated by his party, that is to say, by the recognised primary or convention.
The Epacts Are Also Placed So As To Indicate The Full Moons Generally One Or Two Days After The True Full Moons; But This Was Done Purposely, To Avoid The Chance Of Concurring With The Jewish Passover, Which The Framers Of The Calendar Seem To Have Considered A Greater Evil Than That Of Celebrating Easter A Week Too Late.
But he began to wish for a wider shpere than papal negotiations, and, seeing that he had no chance of becoming a cardinal except by the aid of some great power, he accepted Richelieu's offer of entering the service of the king of France, and in 1639 became a naturalized Frenchman.
Not only the prestige of his victories, but the chance circumstances of the moment, now made Wellington the most influential personality in Europe.
In other spectra such " harmonic " ratios were also discovered, but their search was abandoned when it was found that their number did not exceed that calculated by the laws of probability on the supposition of a chance distribution.
When the spark gap is small, the sudden evaporation of the metal has a better chance of filling the interval between the poles, even without the introduction of a self-induction.
It is thus distinguished from arbitrary methods of appointment, either where the right of nominating rests in an individual, or where pure chance (such as selection by lot) dictates the result.
Its unity is not purely accidental in that individuals have been forced to act together under pressure of chance circumstances.
The Board of Trade was asked to supply full figures, and while its report was awaited the uncertainty of attitude on the part of the government afforded grateful opportunity for opposition mischief-making, since the Liberal party had now the chance of acting as the conservative champions of orthodox economics.
As far as the Empire was concerned, chance at first favoured Innocent.
But the continuance of the Republic in Paris was a condition precedent to the establishment of a republic in Rome, and the first had no chance of existence if the democracy in France did not remain in power.
In some of these cases, where the dream, &c., has been put on record before its "fulfilment" is known, chance is sufficient to explain the coincidence, as in the recorded cases of dreams foretelling the winner of the Derby or the death of a crowned head.
All the bright-hued examples we now see in captivity have been induced by carefully breeding from any chance varieties that have shown themselves; and not only the colour, but the build and stature of the bird have in this manner been greatly modified.
Generally met with in large droves of from fifty to a hundred, it is of a more pugnacious disposition than the former species, and a hunter who encounters a herd in a forest has often to climb a tree as his only chance of safety.
The soredia are the most successful method of reproduction in lichens, for not only are some forms nearly always without spore-formation and in others the spores laregly abortive, but in all cases the spore represents only the fungal component of the thallus, and its success in the development of a new lichen-thallus depends on the chance meeting, at the time of germination, with the appropriate algal component.
The second part of the statement of Herodotus - the reality of the prediction by Thales - has been frequently called in question, chiefly on the ground that, in order to predict a solar eclipse with any chance of success, one should have the command of certain astronomical facts which were not known until the 3rd century, B.C., and then merely approximately, and only employed with that object in the following century by Hipparchus.
She would have flung Scotland with England into the hell fire of Spanish Catholicism rather than forgo the faintest chance of personal revenge.
Standard fruit trees must be left to take their chance; and, indeed from the lateness of their flowering, they are generally more injured by blight, and by drenching rains, which wash away the pollen of the flowers, than by the direct effects of cold.
Slag or Cinder, a characteristic component of wrought iron, which usually contains from 0.20 to 2.00% of it, is essentially a silicate of iron (ferrous silicate), and is present in wrought iron simply because this product is made by welding together pasty granules of iron in a molten bath of such slag, without ever melting the resultant mass or otherwise giving the envelopes of slag thus imprisoned a chance to escape completely.
In the former case there is no later chance to remove sulphur, a minute quantity of which does great harm by leading to the formation of cementite instead of graphite and ferrite, and thus making the cast-iron castings too hard to be cut to exact shape with steel tools; in the latter case the converting or purifying processes, which are essentially oxidizing ones, though they remove the other impurities, carbon, silicon, phosphorus and manganese, are not well adapted to desulphurizing, which needs rather deoxidizing conditions, so as to cause the formation of calcium sulphide, than oxidizing ones.
While the metal lies tranquilly on the bottom of the furnace, any slag mechanically suspended in it has a chance to rise to the surface and unite with the slag layer above.
During the period just mentioned the tailors' methods of scientific pattern cutting have been adopted by the leading furriers in place of the old chance methods of fur cutters, so that to-day a fur garment may be as accurately and gracefully fitted as plush or velvet, and with all good houses a material pattern is fitted and approved before the skins are cut.
The advantage of this arrangement was that it left all hands free to fight, a barrier could be formed with the oars and yards, and the enemy's chance of making use of his superior numbers to attack on both sides would be, as far as possible, limited - a great point when all fighting was with the sword, or with such feeble missile weapons as bows and javelins.
The other saga, which by chance came to be looked upon as the chief repository of facts concerning the Vinland voyages, is found in a large Icelandic work known as the Flatey Book, as it was once owned by a man who lived on Flat Island (Flatey), on the north-western coast of Iceland.
Such a contention, however, clearly defeats its own object by reducing all action to chance.
The mathematical theory of probability and the allied theory of the combinatorial analysis were in effect created by the correspondence between Pascal and Fermat, concerning certain questions as to the division of stakes in games of chance, which had been propounded to the former by the gaming philosopher De Mere.
If by any chance he missed a post, he would go back a hundred yards and repair the omission.
Chase, however, had little chance, and the contest was virtually between Seward and Lincoln, who by many was considered more "available," because it was thought that he could (and Seward could not) secure the vote of certain doubtful states.
Although the pope forgave him, the German princes, resolved not to miss the chance which-fortune had given them, met in March 1077, and deposed him, electing Rudolph, duke of Swabia, as his successor.
This most inconclusive report, and the baseless idea that the adoption of the Nile route would involve rio chance of bloodshed, which the government was anxious to avoid, seem to Wolseley have decided the question.
Then, if ever, Denmark had the chance of playing once more a leading part in international politics.
He early studied at Bologna, where the bishop, Nicholas Albergati, was so much struck with his ardour for learning that he gave him the chance to pursue his studies further, by sending him on a tour through Germany, France and England.
Finally chance gave him an opportunity to show his talents, and at the Porte Saint Martin he became the popular interpreter of romantic drama of the Alexandre Dumas type.
Napoleon saw his chance and seized it.
The Principia mathematica of Sir Isaac Newton, which chance threw in his way, caused him to prosecute his studies with vigour, and he soon became distinguished among first-rate mathematicians.
A Technical Schools Act, passed in 1887, was applied by a few local authorities; but in 1890 funds were by chance made available from an unexpected source, and devoted to the purposes of technical and secondary education.
The struggle would be most acute between individuals and varieties of the same species, with the result that "any being, if it vary however slightly, in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and somewhat varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected."
Darwin was careful to insist that we did not know the laws of variation, and that when variation was attributed to "chance" no more should be read into the statement than an expression of our ignorance of the causation.
The series into which we can arrange the results of observing phenomena of complex causation, whether exhibited by living organisms or not, have certain properties in common, which are dealt with by the theory of chance.
The theory of chance was applied to the study of human variation by Quetelet; but the most important applications of this theory to biological problems are due in the first instance to Francis Galton, who used the theory of correlation in describing the relation between the deviation of one character in an animal body from the mean proper to its race and that of a second character in the same body (correlation as commonly understood), or between deviation of a parent from the mean of its generation and deviation of offspring from the mean of the following generation (inheritance).
The conceptions indicated by Galton have been extended and added to by Karl Pearson, who has also developed the theory of chance so as to provide a means of describing many series of complex results in a simpler and more accurate way than was hitherto possible.
Both sides concur in the position assumed by Darwin, that the word "chance" in such a phrase as "chance variation" does not mean that the occurrences are independent of natural causation and so far undetermined, but covers in the first place our ignorance of the exact causation.
At every stage some individuals are prevented from contributing to the next generation, and if the continual process of elimination affects individuals possessing any one character more strongly than it affects others, so that a relation is established between individual character and the chance of producing a certain number of young, selection is said to occur.
And it is a most fortunate chance that this - the oldest, the most complete, and the most authentic collection of folklore extant - has thus been preserved intact to the present day.
A youth was considered to be in his minority until he was tattooed, and in former times be would have no chance of marrying until he had, by submitting to this process, proved himself to be a man.
Edhem Bey (1904), and by chance discoveries, fine-art products have come to light on the site.
Owing to a prevailing confusion between tests of memory and tests of capacity, the allowance for chance fairly applied to the former is apt to be unduly extended to the latter.
Edgeworth, in two papers on " The Statistics of Examinations " and the " Element of Chance in Competitive Examinations " (Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 1888 and 1890), has dealt with the subject, although on somewhat limited lines.
His investigations show clearly that with candidates near the border-line of failure, which must necessarily be fixed at a given point (subject to certain allowances, where more than one subject is considered), the element of chance necessarily enters largely into the question of pass and failure.
The element of chance, which prevails in the region on either side of the border between pass and failure, obviously prevails equally on either side of the border between " classes," where candidates are classified; it has been suggested by Dr Schuster that numerical order should accompany classification so as to avoid the creation of an artificial gap between the last candidate in one class and the highest in the next.
It may perhaps be no mere chance that with the dynasties of Omri and Jehu the historical continuity is more firm, that older forms of prophetical narrative are preserved (the times from Ahab to Jehu), and that to the reign of the great Jeroboam (first half of the 8th century), the canonical writers have ascribed the earliest of the extant prophetical writings (Amos and Hosea).
By throwing in her lot with the Peloponnesian democracies and Athens, Argos seriously endangered Sparta's supremacy, but the defeat of Mantineia (418) and a successful rising of the Argive oligarchs spoilt this chance.
It can be grown in the tropics from the level of the sea to a height equal to that of the Pyrenees and in the south and middle of Europe, but it cannot be grown in England with any chance of profit, except perhaps as fodder.
The victory of Panipat, won by Ahmad Shah Durani over the united Mahratta confederacy in 1761, gave the Mahommedans one more chance of rule.