• And just after the hour, the golden opportunity the Blades craved arrived - but was squandered.

    BBC: Arsenal sink brave Blades

  • As a FinTech startup you have the golden opportunity to redefine design and user experience around money matters and daresay make it fun for consumers to interact with their finances.

    FORBES: 10 Rules For Disruptors In The Financial Services Industry

  • When combined with the original state-owned firms that Indonesia still promises to privatise, these assets offer the government a golden opportunity to reshape the economy.

    ECONOMIST: Nationalising Indonesia

  • "There's a good variety in this match" says John Lloyd. plenty of variety in that rally - a great combination of dropshots from Berrer, Murray hangs in there and the German wastes a golden opportunity at the net.

    BBC: French Open - day seven as it happened

  • While the rapid transition from voice to data in the mobile space represents a golden opportunity for the graphics industry, there are a number of hurdles to clear.

    FORBES: Mobile Phone Gaming Gets A Boost From Better Graphics Chips

  • The Hornets were handed a golden opportunity on the stroke of half-time when Lee brought down Henri Lansbury in the penalty area, but Speroni produced an outstanding save to keep out Graham's spot-kick.

    BBC: Crystal Palace 3-0 Watford

  • Even though the stage seems set for a momentous ruling by the court, the litigation actually offers the justices a golden opportunity to resolve these cases without setting a precedent either way, and to reaffirm the ideal of democratic, decentralized decision-making.

    WSJ: Michael McConnell: The Constitution and Same-Sex Marriage

  • Congress and the SEC had a golden opportunity to provide clarity in the 1980s.

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  • He saw the deal as a golden opportunity to snag Celebrex, the U.S. blockbuster drug Pharmacia desperately needed.

    FORBES: Ready For Battle

  • Today's markets may look like a disaster, but savvy investors know the carnage offers a golden opportunity to find money in the streets.

    FORBES: Stocks To Buy Amid The Market Carnage

  • Some shadow ministers complain that the minifesto was a golden opportunity to show voters that the Conservative Party was at last thinking creatively about many issues other than Europe, but that Mr Hague squandered this opportunity by over-emphasising once again its hostility to the single currency.

    ECONOMIST: Ready to rumble

  • While the Arab League has discussed Syria at numerous meetings in recent months, Zebari said the summit will be "a golden opportunity for the Arab leaders to think together collectively" about the mounting crisis and stalemate.

    CNN: Arab League summit aims to showcase 'the new Iraq'

  • Elected mayor Mark Meredith has called the plans a "golden opportunity" to improve education in the city, where many of the schools are not performing well.

    BBC: St Joseph's College may shut under plans being considered

  • "When we formed the APHC we felt it was a golden opportunity for the Indian government to go for a political solution, " says Umar.

    CNN: A New Kind of War

  • "In view of this golden opportunity given to the (reformist) trend by the judiciary, it must be concluded that the judiciary issued the sentence without any political consideration, because otherwise this golden opportunity and big present would certainly not have been given to the so-called reformist spectrum, " he wrote in the afternoon daily Keyhan.

    BBC: Hashem Aghajari

  • By forgetting this elementary rule, Bulat Abilov, a charismatic opposition leader, has given the government a golden opportunity to marginalise him, dealing an eve-of-election blow to his party, Ak Zhol (Bright Path).

    ECONOMIST: A setback for the opposition

  • The publication of the report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life provides a golden opportunity for the government to get this issue back out of the box marked 'too difficult' and make a serious effort to find a fair solution which is acceptable to all parties.

    BBC: Party funding: MPs urge government to stick to reform

  • The current mood in the country against continuing to increase the national debt 67 percent oppose raising the debt ceiling provides a golden opportunity to change the initial conditions on federal borrowing.

    FORBES: Butterflies, Trains And The National Debt

  • The talks are a golden opportunity to free, at last, not just their airline industries, but the world's.

    ECONOMIST: Now is the time to set the world's airlines free

  • The second risk is that the Nordics will let slip a golden opportunity to reform welfare and roll back the state's interference in the private sector.

    ECONOMIST: Remodelling Scandinavia

  • Full-back Lloyd Doyley caused problems with a surging run into the area before the Hornets player of the season Danny Graham spurned a golden opportunity, heading wide when unmarked at the near post.

    BBC: Watford 0-2 QPR

  • They had several chances to equalise, a cross flashing across the goalline just beyond Ebanks-Blake, Fletcher bursting into the area with no reward and Steven Mouyokolo heading a golden opportunity from inside the six-yard box wide, but however unjust, Wolves remained one place off the bottom.

    BBC: Wolves 2-3 Bolton

  • In return the telecoms get a golden opportunity to aggressively market not only their dial-up services but their whole host of telecommunications services.

    FORBES: The ISP buffet

  • But the Welsh Cup winners wasted a golden opportunity at Belle Vue to take a lead to Lithuania in the second leg.

    BBC: SPORT | Football | Europe | Rhyl 0-0 Suduva

  • The Obama administration, with its highly able team of economists, has a golden opportunity to put the country on a better path.

    WSJ: Economists Have Abandoned Principle

  • At the start of the 90 minutes, New Zealand, ranked 77 in the world, also had the chance of reaching the last 16 but wasted their golden opportunity by failing to trouble Paraguay goalkeeper Justo Villar even once in the match.

    BBC: Paraguay 0-0 New Zealand

  • Mitt Romney, likewise, gets an F for avoiding the question and another F for missing a golden opportunity to make an important principled point about the role of government when it comes to price matters.

    FORBES: Scoring Romney & Obama's Disappointing Energy Debate

  • The natural wastage offered by the looming retirements was a golden opportunity to do just that.

    BBC: Firefighters suspect a plot

  • However, these parents were in anguish at the loss of a golden educational opportunity.

    ECONOMIST: One-tenth of China's population risks discrimination

  • The mobile medium is a golden opportunity to do just that.

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