• In professional gaming tournaments like Major League Gaming, only highly skilled players stand a chance of winning.

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  • Only the maid, who has a foot in traditional structures, seems to stand a chance of being happy.

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  • Stradtman says this is a bad idea because those pictures stand a chance of popping up when the boys grow up.

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  • To stand a chance of putting them behind bars, you almost have to catch them in the act of forking over secrets.

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  • Battling against the odds, do they stand a chance of saving mankind?

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  • Only then will this process, this attempt to break the cycle of misery and destitution, conflict and violence, stand a chance of success.

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  • Firms that rank well in both areas stand a chance of being among the top 100 or so that Miller considers for Catalyst Value.

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  • Standing four-over on the par-five17th, the U.S. PGA champion needed a birdie or better to get stand a chance of making the final two rounds.

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  • Henson believes he needs a full game in his preferred position of inside centre to stand a chance of featuring against England at the Millennium Stadium.

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  • To stand a chance of overturning Mr da Silva's huge lead, he must do two things, according to Gaudencio Torquato, a political scientist at Sao Paulo University.

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  • The government has not officially abandoned its renewable-energy targets, but few think that plans for 8, 000 offshore wind turbines by 2020 stand a chance of being realised.

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  • If these changes are passed and carried out quickly, then confidence, foreign investment and economic activity may stand a chance of recovery, and dollars may flow in.

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  • At that scale, Proton seemed to stand a chance of holding its own against the multinational car makers when Malaysia opens its domestic car market in 2003.

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  • Party strategists believe that Labour will need to win between eight and 10 seats in the east if it's to stand a chance of forming the next government.

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  • With the right combination of daytime heat and a smattering of light rain at night to cool the soil, they stand a chance of creating a standout vintage.

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  • Mr Sarkozy is the only candidate who seems both to have understood the urgency of reform and to have the abrasiveness to stand a chance of carrying it out.

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  • And, although Hull provided enough evidence at Bolton to suggest they have the determination to survive, they will need to improve on their finishing to stand a chance of staying up.

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  • Fly-half Jonny Wilkinson admitted England still have plenty of areas to improve on if they are to stand a chance of beating Australia, their opponents from the 2003 World Cup final.

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  • Only by adding the missing piece of the puzzle and incentivizing developers do we stand a chance of building a sustainable mobile data economy that will last for years to come.

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  • In three years the crew has combed through 800 applications looking for promising companies that don't need millions in startup capital and that stand a chance of making measurable progress in just three months.

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  • Specialized "vertical" portals -- those that trade only in certain commodities or components -- also stand a chance of carving a niche for themselves among broad-based "horizontal" portals such as Global Sources, says Sweeney.

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  • Martin McGuinness might still be too far off the lead to stand a chance of succeeding Mary McAleese, but if Sean Gallagher doesn't secure victory this final bad tempered exchange could be remembered as a game changer.

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  • To stand a chance of re-election, he must therefore do whatever he can to frame the vote less as a referendum on his performance in office and more as a choice between competing visions for the future.

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  • Leone Stars are second in Group 4 behind Nigeria with seven point and need to avoid defeat to stand a chance of qualifying for the next stage of the qualifiers as one of the best eight second-placed teams.

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  • But the fact is no acts of violence or intimidation, even as savage as the killings last week, stand a chance of derailing for any substantial amount of time the groundswell of willpower at the heart of the global anti-polio effort.

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  • If Dr Jaafari is to stand a chance of making peace among his fellow Iraqis, he needs to change tack both in the way he builds a ruling coalition and in how he tries to stop Iraq sliding into a full-blown civil war.

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  • At least the Bear Stearns executives stand a chance of providing a distraction from the issues at Goldman, which has been accused of fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission for its disclosures involving a structured product it packaged and sold in 2007.

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  • Phillips could still feature for Swansea on 27 February and have a second Ospreys appearance in Edinburgh on the 7 March if he is to stand a chance of making the last two matches of Wales' Six Nations campaign, against Ireland and Italy.

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  • Only in two of Brazil's 27 states does Mr da Silva stand a chance of outpolling Mr Cardoso: in Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul, the historical homes of trabalhismo (labourism), the ideology built by Getulio Vargas, Brazil's modernising mid-century dictator.

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