Not one man in a thousand can go into Wall Street and fail to be influenced by the wild speculation which is going on there, the apparent opportunities for getting rich in a minute, the tips and rumors and all that sort of thing.
There would still be plenty of opportunities of meeting Miss Crawford, Lucy assured her patroness.
If it require opportunities for confirmation or for the infliction of self-suffering, it is never difficult to find them.
This quiet village opens out no opportunitiesto you; it is too narrow, too confined.
I thus had many opportunities of observing closely the way in which the ruling clique in Constantinople performs its duties.
If you cannot buy the designs and workmanship of artists, take advantage of all opportunities to see them; hats and gowns shown at openings, or when your richer friends are ordering.
Progress levels national differences, therefore the student must make the most of opportunities to observe.
Your place there is vacant, and the opportunities are varied and brilliant.
Unforeseen opportunities of the kind have frequently occurred in naval war, and may be expected frequently to occur again.
There will be many opportunities of talking over your future--but I wish you first to become accustomed to my ways and to this house, and to trouble your head with no speculations of the kind which I could not assist.
They visited the Lazienki Park, passing many of Warsaw's famous people as they went, and so affording the Count many opportunities for delightful little histories in which such men excel.
Imagine five hundred men upon the deck of a ship which has struck a rock, and consider what opportunities there would be to deplore the drowned.
Such a fact is both our strength and our weakness--our strength because opportunities make men, and our weakness because we have no unity of plan which will enable us to fight such a combination as is now being pitted against us.
And now the opportunities for words were not denied.
During the rest of the evening Fitz took one or two opportunities of looking at Eve to discover, if he could, what the difference was that he found in her.
Above all, she will warmly cherish life and look upon it as being crowded with priceless opportunities for obtaining happiness for herself and for others.
But instead of fleeing from the petty trials that cross our paths we should welcome them as opportunities for testing and strengthening our good purposes.
Quebec, Montreal, Toronto, and Kingston all aspired to the honour, and the sectional jealousies among the supporters of the Ministry afforded periodical opportunities to the Opposition, of which they did not fail to take advantage.
This gave Sir Richard one of those opportunities to attack Sir John of which he never failed to take advantage.
In the continual antagonism between the material and spiritual interests involved in the events of his agitated life, he had opportunities to display the noblest firmness in causing the latter to prevail.
In York Castle he had opportunities of amusement, as well as leisure for study; and he found kindness, consolation, and friendship within the walls of a prison.
A strong predilection for the organ was awakened early in the lad and he eagerly sought opportunities to study the instrument, apparently even before he became Neefe's pupil.
Opportunities for studying Beethoven's sketchbooks have greatly increased since Mr. Thayer wrote these words.
The natives are always looking out for opportunities of procuring food so easily, and never hesitate to eat any fish, although they may have been dead for some time.
One of these opportunities occurred in the very neighbourhood of the hill from which Mr. Poole is said to have seen the inland sea, as described in Captain Sturt's despatch.
In his voyages round the world he has had opportunities more than once of seeing all our great Colonies.
During my stay as Governor of the Transvaal, I had many opportunities of knowing people whom you have recently seen mentioned as the principal leaders in this war against us.
The State Apartments (which those who frequent levees and drawing-rooms have abundant opportunities of surveying) are handsome, and contain a number of good royal portraits.
I hold my mind open to receive or to reject; but, in the mean time, I do not neglect opportunities of obtaining means for forming a just opinion.
However that may be, my lord," he said, "I cannot believe that your desire for opportunities of judging on these abstract points can be the cause of your giving such opportunities to a man whom you believe to be an enemy and a rascal.
Yet Edward, who had enjoyed many opportunities of witnessing the effect of various emotions upon him, clearly perceived that he returned with full success.
May I be allowed to extend the comparison to a profession where more mind is certainly to be found; for the clergy have superior opportunitiesof improvement, though subordination almost equally cramps their faculties?
The days of activity and hope are over, and the opportunities which the first stage of existence has afforded of advancing in the scale of intelligence, must soon be summed up.
On the whole the Black Sea trip seemed to offer the most favourable opportunities of success.
The tragic waste of great opportunities is portrayed in a story which has the quality of drama in it.
Of various opportunities that came my way, the most practical and attractive was that suggested by the Russian Colonel.
We had many opportunities of distributing books and tracts along the road.
So far as I have had an opportunity of learning, and my opportunities have extended to most of the mission stations, the visits of these public vessels have been most grateful to the missionaries.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "opportunities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
