sporting chance
Example Sentences
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Even a scoreless draw or 1-0 defeat would leave them a sporting chance before a second leg against a Peru side that could conceivably buckle under the potentially crippling weight of national expectation back home.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2017
The next two teams on the list, the 1968 Cardinals and 1968 Indians, pitched in a year so offensively anemic that baseball soon lowered the mound to give hitters a sporting chance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2016
With Affleck not nominated this time, and no star directors among the final five, Spielberg has a sporting chance, though the feeling here is that Ang Lee will be cited for Life of Pi.
From Time ● Feb. 22, 2013
It used to be that journalists had a sporting chance of protecting their sources.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2012
If I read this village cut-up right, and I think I do, he’ll take a sporting chance.
From Young Wallingford by George Randolph Chester
