The sequence is determined by chance, and Mr. Cunningham makes use of any one of several chance devices.

The `` approximate '' is important, because even after the order of the work has been established by the chance method, the result is not inviolable.

However, there is always the possibility that chance will make demands the dancers find impossible to execute.

It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in.

The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess.

It is not my intention in this narrative to picture myself as a helpless victim moored to the rock of experience and left to the buffetings of chance.

All chance of fulfilling my destiny is over.

The old ideal of the independent entrepreneur is extant -- but so is the recognition that the main chance may be in a corporate bureaucracy.

The football opponent on homecoming is, of course, selected with the view that said opponent will have little more chance than did a Christian when thrown to one of the emperor's lions.

Secondly, the VA physician knows that when the patient leaves the hospital, he is no longer going to have a chance to visit his patient.

It is visible throughout the city, and men from Madison Ave. would jump at the chance.

The trouble with all these doctrinal quarrels is that we hear only one side of the story: what, in the secret councils of the Kremlin, Molotov had really proposed, we just don't know, and he has had no chance to reply.

This Class can be just as successful in the dog world if it is given a chance.

Follow pool-care instructions to the letter, and be sure that one person ( in the family or not ) is regularly responsible for each aspect of the job, with no chance for claiming, `` It wasn't my turn ''.

There is a well-known relationship between probability and entropy which states that Af, where **zq is the probability that state ( i.e., volume for an ideal gas ) could be reached by chance alone.

The best chance, of course, is offered by gently sloping terrain where the water remains close to the surface and where the air is dry, so that a high evaporation leaves salty deposits which permit only sparse plant growth.

He recognized that whatever transformation may be effected in the first stage of an R-stage process, the remaining stages must use an optimal Af-stage policy with respect to the state resulting from the first stage, if there is to be any chance of optimizing the complete process.

There is a difference in theological belief where there seems little chance of agreement.

There is much to be said for a college that, while happily attuned to the sophisticated Ivies, still gives its students a chance to get up early in the morning and drive along back roads where a glimpse of small game, deer, or even bear is not uncommon.

In duplicate bridge, the cards held by each player in each deal are preserved so that each partnership plays the same set of hands as their East-West or North-South counterparts at other tables and with the scoring based upon relative performance, thus emphasizing skill over chance.

Although the Nebel stream lay between Fugger's and Marsin's squadrons, the French were forced to change front to meet this new threat, thus forestalling the chance for Marsin to strike at Marlborough's infantry.

Those against the Wild Card see it as diminishing the importance of the pennant race and the regular season, with the true race often being for second rather than first place, while those in favor of it view it as an opportunity for teams to have a shot at the playoffs even when they have no chance of a first-place finish in their division, thus maintaining fan interest later in the season.

In any case, Flynn and Blake were perceived to be poor hitters ; thus, the crowd believed that Casey had little chance for a potential game-winning at bat.

Because she was not considered physically beautiful, and thus not thought to have much chance of marriage, and because of her intelligence, her father invested in an education not often afforded women.

There is a 5 % chance that no more trees will fall, a 4. 75 % chance that exactly one more tree will fall ( and thus a 9. 75 % chance of 1 or fewer additional trees falling ), and so on.

The Giants ' catcher, Hank Gowdy, dropped his protective mask to field the ball but, failing to toss the mask aside, stumbled over it and dropped the ball, thus giving Ruel another chance to bat.

Neither recombines, and thus Y-DNA and mtDNA change only by chance mutation at each generation with no intermixture between parents ' genetic material.

He thus has 9 outs for a flush out of 47 cards yet to be drawn, giving him a 9 / 47 chance to fill his flush on the turn.

That level is the employee's " level of incompetence " where the employee has no chance of further promotion, thus reaching their career's ceiling in an organization.

Because cells and more importantly the DNA can be damaged, this ionization can result in an increased chance of cancer, and thus " ionizing radiation " is somewhat artificially separated out of particle and electromagnetic radiation, simply due to its larger potential for biological damage per unit of energy.

The strike denied Matt Williams a chance to beat Roger Maris's single season home run record — he had 43 HR in 115 team games, and was thus on pace for 60 when the strike hit with 47 games left to play ( Bonds had 37, on pace for 52 ).

As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive ; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected.

Whippets are quiet and thus well suited to apartment life, but require regular exercise and the chance to run free.

Fans booed Manning for driving in the winning run and thus depriving Molitor of one last chance to reach 40 games.

This is simply because electrons ( ejected from the air by gamma rays ) are stopped quickly in normal air for bursts below roughly 10 km ( about 6 miles ), so they do not get a chance to be significantly deflected by the Earth's magnetic field ( the deflection causes the powerful EMP seen in high altitude bursts ), thus the limited use of smaller burst altitudes for widespread EMP.

By bonding ( interconnecting ) all exposed non-current carrying metal objects together, they should remain near the same potential thus reducing the chance of a shock.

Therefore, when moving in a favorable direction, the concentration of the chemical attractant increases and " tumbles " are continually suppressed ; however, when the cell's direction of motion is unfavorable ( e. g., away from a chemical attractant ), tumbles are no longer suppressed and occur much more often, with the chance that the cell will be thus reoriented in the correct direction.

A response to this ethical dilemma states that felons who have a history of violent crime, who have violated others ’ basic rights, have lost the right to receive an organ transplant, though it is noted that it would be necessary " to reform our justice system to minimize the chance of an innocent person being wrongly convicted of a violent crime and thus being denied an organ transplant "

Having led his men out from the castle to meet the enemy, Edward gained early success, but unwisely pursued a retreating force to the north, thus sacrificing the chance of overall victory.

Due to discontent towards the proposal of political reform made by the Hong Kong government, the Civic Party and the League of Social Democrats joined together to carry out " Five Constituencies Referendum " in early 2010, by having one Legislative Councillors ( from either one of the parties ) in each constituency resigned, forcing the government to carry out a by-election, thus giving a chance for all voters to show their will towards universal suffrage and the abolishment of functional constituencies. Quite often, it is refereed as " De facto referendum ".

Second, the time between feedings is long due to the distance from the nest site that adults forage, thus a chick that had a higher growth rate would stand a better chance of starving to death.

These low altitudes decrease the time aloft for paratroopers ; thus decreasing the chance of being observed, and possibly taking fire ; as well as also minimising the opportunity for drift-related hazards ( e. g. entanglements, leap-frogging ).