sporting chance

That gives law enforcement a sporting chance before the shooting begins.

If Obama wins, there's at least a sporting chance on certain issues that middle-class and working-class people won't get screwed.

Several interesting schemes were therefore invented to give the men at least a sporting chance of getting to safety.

If the master is such an arrant ass as to let you crib, it is his own lookout; and, after all, we take the sporting chance.

I had spotted a white wrist back of a gleam of polished metal and, taking a sporting chance, I let drive.

Not that he had any hope, but it was only fair to give even the most abandoned of mankind a sporting chance.

However, with the storm increasing and the long dark night ahead, we took a sporting chance, and ran direct in on the cliffs.