Even if by some chance all 170 countries endorsed the toughest proposal on the table, global warming would only be slowed.
If by some chance public pressure and collective conscience prompt lawmakers to embrace reform, Clinton will claim it as a victory for his leadership.
You can draw whatever life lessons you like from that, but the main thing is clear: No one should ever be afraid for Mariano Rivera, and if by some chance he decides to come back for another year, he'll devise some way to make it another nearly perfect one.
More precisely you could promise the following: If by some chance this economy starts to take off and desired savings falls below desired investment then I will raise interest rates so far, so fast that it will crush every single investor in America, drive homebuilders into a ditch, shutter factories, skyrocket the Federal debt and put half the population on the bread line.
By chance, they had spent some years of life together that was all.
The fiscal cliff package actually might have had some chance of diminishing deficits by raising taxes on the middle class, the only group big enough to materially affect tax revenues.
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The thinking is that this will build momentum for bigger issues, and it's a philosophy that, in the early hours after this election, is being embraced by some senior White House officials who see a chance to forge bipartisan agreement on various trade deals.
Just viewing the game from multiple viewpoints could make for a fairly dry reading experience, but Kettmann manages to pull this off in fine fashion by imparting a bit of history to the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry, and by giving the reader a chance to know some of the subjects as real people.
They were based on evidence, which has been questioned by some, that several very costly transplants had little chance of long-term success.
Most of us never met Steve Jobs, but even those who never had the chance were touched in some way by his life and career.
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Any time a large number of people are given a vaccine, some of them will get sick and die just by chance.
China faces similar problems but has managed to woo some overseas talent by appealing to patriotism and giving academics a chance to work in an innovative economy.
Did you just get caught flat-footed by a leak before you had a chance to iron out some details, or are we seeing deeper internal issues working themselves out in public here?
At the weapons range Craig was given the chance to fire some of the machine guns used by UK forces.
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Do you think that this contest, by the way, do you think some day there's a chance that Michael Portillo's time could still come?
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He's being seen as a lame duck by some in the country, but this summit surely gives him a chance for a last hurrah if it's seen as a success.
Some walked for days for the chance to show their anger by publicly giving up their membership cards for Tanzania's ruling party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM).
Given the tenor of Congress these days, there seems to be some chance that the Republicans might wish to make their point by allowing the payment reduction to take place.
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Some see a chance to settle several disputes at once, by persuading Syria to stop supplying Hizbullah in return for a return of the Golan Heights and a peace deal with Israel.
The chance of a regional power emerging from the crisis is strengthened by some other trends.
Some ten weeks later the decomposing body of the baby was discovered by chance in woods a few miles away.
There are thousands of trials going on, and some of them are going to turn up scary-seeming hazards entirely by chance.
He argued that by doing so, Israel - with some help from the Palestinians - is destroying all chance of peace.
However, he adds, the chance that the humans with the armadillo-specific strain were infected by some other means is about 1 in 10, 000.
And I just had a chance to see some of the outstanding exhibits that have been put forward by some of these amazing young people.
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So I was mentioning to him that I went to Walter Reed this week to visit some of our wounded warriors, and a number of them remarked on how they had had a chance to meet Sergeant Petry -- he had gone by to talk to some of those guys.
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Writing in the Mail on Sunday, the MP - touted by some as a future leadership candidate - said the coalition "is about to enter the last chance saloon" and must consider a radical programme of tax cuts, including phasing out employers' national insurance contributions.
But it also brings gives some of the less-serious soccer fans among us a chance to judge teams solely by their nicknames.
There are stories some blacks lived through, stories others were told by their parents and stories that never had a chance to be told.
Key issues that had some momentum coming out of Newtown but are fiercely opposed by the NRA appear to have a slim chance of passage.
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