fair chance

Noun

Meaning

a reasonable probability of success

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Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. Laurence J. Peter

If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon. Po Bronson

I am a sporting man. I always give them a fair chance to get away. Winston Churchill

The reader cannot create; that has been done for him by the author. The reader can only interpret, giving the author a fair chance to make his impression. Robertson Davies

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. Modern society is too vast and too restless to give a conversationalist a fair chance. Leslie Stephen

I must and will work to ensure that the new democratic South Africa has a fair chance to succeed economically as well as politically, and to try to assist in fulfilling at least a part of the dream of the oppressed and deprived when the new South Africa is born. Harry Schwarz

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