sporting chance
Example Sentences
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"We must get back to giving women a level playing field to compete. We need to give women a sporting chance."
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2024
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
It is, rather, to give juvenile offenders a sporting chance, perhaps after decades in prison, to make the case that they deserve to get out, he said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2013
It is thought that there is at least a sporting chance that some of them will be hoist with their own bacon.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-25 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
