fighting chance

The universal service obligation is currently under review, with Royal Mail suggesting to the regulator Ofcom that reducing second-class deliveries to every other weekday would save up to £300m a year and give the business "a fighting chance".

Perhaps it’s smart politics to play within the system, to give the policies you care about a fighting chance, to not alienate the guy in charge before he’s even taken office.

England came into the deciding ODI with their confidence boosted after a thrilling win in the second game in Antigua and they gave themselves a fighting chance at the halfway point after an excellent recovery with the bat.

Dan Schnur, a political science professor at Pepperdine, UC Berkeley and USC who previously ran statewide campaigns, said that Garvey would have been a competitive candidate in a state where Republicans have a fighting chance.

“There are not that many rivers that are going to be able to sustain salmon through time with climate change, and I think that this really gives us a fighting chance.”