fair chance
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffairandchance
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fair
adjective
uk/feər/us/fer/
treating someone in a way that is right or reasonable, or treating a group of people equally and not allowing personal opinions to influence ...
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chance
noun
uk/tʃɑːns/us/tʃæns/
an occasion that allows something to ...
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(Definition offairandchancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffair chance
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In a "women's institution" women had at least afairchanceto become professor.
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Direct confrontation with workers always had afairchanceof being successful, precisely because of the pressures the market exercised on labour.
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It provides the moral basis for a fallback framework that contributes to all persons' receiving afairchancein life.
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It asserts that collective moral obligations exist to provide healthcare at the level needed for persons to receive afairchancein life.
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But does the sickest individual deserve a "fairchance" at treatment?
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First, there is afairchancethat agents can hold the other accountable for their actions when they meet after they have played the game.
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This is not to say, of course, that one should not give afairchanceto alternative green-technology.
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Some would argue that equity requires giving everyone afairchanceat treatment, even if that option would not result in the best overall health outcome.
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Women mobilized and organized pressure to ensure that political parties increased their number of women candidates, that is to say, women candidates had afairchanceof winning.
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In that way, the development of these clean fuels is given afairchance.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Fourthly: this results in another principle whereby the countries which joined later have afairchanceof catching up with those that began earlier.
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We also need to do more to promote fair trade, so that the developing and emerging countries finally get afairchance.
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I also agree with his desire to ensure that ethnic minorities are treated equally and given afairchance.
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If it is to have afairchanceof doing so, it needs two things, a little more time and a lot more confidence.
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There is a case here for increasing unemployment benefit so that these people may have afairchance.
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These are the sort of mistakes which lead one to say that the system has not had afairchance.
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No one can say that the coal industry has not had afairchancein the past 20 years.
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I say, most emphatically, that we desire in every way to give that body afairchance.
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In other words they must give our working people afairchanceof permanent prosperity in our own country.
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Their appeal is for afairchancein the fight.
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