Every citizen ought to have a fair chance to try his fortune in any line of business, which he thinks he has ability to transact.
Had his mother been too ignorant to know her rights, or too abject to demand them, the lad would have had a fair chance to get a living out of the State as the occupant of a workhouse, or penitentiary.
If your fleet is divided as to be in all places inferior to the enemy, they will have a fair chance of succeeding everywhere in their attempts.
You may find yourself compelled to occupy, not the best positions, but those which will give a fair chance of getting contact in favourable conditions, and at the same time afford reasonable cover for your trade.
His design, therefore, was to act upon the defensive and prevent the enemy achieving any positive result until he was in a position to fight them with a fair chance of victory.
There were now many wealthy business men in the country, and thus artists had a fair chance of a livelihood while their ideals and technique were developing.
Many were born and many died without a fair chance at normal existence.
Some will seek fairness by distributing to each an actual share of the goods; others, by giving to each a fair chance to get his share of goods.
You are one of the few men who can try that experiment with a fair chance of success.
Shut your eyes, and swallow your adulterated wife as you swallow your adulterated sugar--and, I tell you again, you are one of the few men who can try the marriage experiment with a fair chance of success.
Provision is made for their peculiar positions: and, though they may possibly go astray, they have a fair chance given to them of running within the posts.
Frank, who could not yet induce himself to believe that he had been allowed a fair chance with Mr Moffat.
And now, good-bye, Scatcherd; and as you do send for him, give him a fair chance.
The Children's Courts are a response to the effort of society to give each child a fair chance in life.
If any one thinks that it is so slight a thing to do this now, since if one is not satisfied one can get a divorce, he or she is not giving the choice a fair chance.
In fine, Brazil--in common with other parts of South America--has a fair chance of being one day the scene of a civilisation morally and socially higher than that now evolving in North America.
In the same way we would have beaten the gringoes had we had a fair chance at them.
During the last few years it has repeatedly fallen to my lot to follow General Huerta in the field, so that I have had a fair chance to view some of his soldierly qualities at close hand.
If you are off too quick, you have to pull up and turn back agin, and your beast gets out of wind and is baffled, and if you lose in the start you hant got a fair chance arterwards, and are plaguy apt to be jockied in the course.
Turner, did not feel that the race had a fair chance in the United States.
Actual prosperity was impossible even if the whites had been willing to give the Negro peasants a fair chance.
As Congress has exclusive powers of legislation over the District of Columbia in all cases whatsoever, here is a fair chance to try the two houses upon this very interesting question.
Already at Yale and West Point colored men have a fair chance, not yet the women.
I didn't have a fair chance to size up the hole ripped open by the bomb, but rather think that also was large enough to have admitted a good deal of water.
It was a bit naive, that confession, but at the same time highly instructive; and I wouldn't care to be the Hun or Sinn Feiner that either of those ex-hyphenates had a fair chance at.
It was too close for a torpedo, nor was there a fair chance for a depth-charge.
With a fair chance we can and will reclothe these denuded mountains with forests, and we ask for that chance.
Now he asks whether it is honest, and means what it says, whether it will promote the public interest, weaken special privilege, and help to give every man a fair chance.
As Bill was naked he had a fair chance, and he ragged him like the leaf of a book cut open with your finger.
If you are off too quick, you have to pull up and turn back agin, and your beast gets out of wind and is baffled, and if you lose in the start you hain't got a fair chance arterwards, and are plaguy apt to be jockied in the course.
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