fighting chance

Perhaps it’s smart politics to play within the system, to give the policies you care about a fighting chance, to not alienate the guy in charge before he’s even taken office.

England came into the deciding ODI with their confidence boosted after a thrilling win in the second game in Antigua and they gave themselves a fighting chance at the halfway point after an excellent recovery with the bat.

Dan Schnur, a political science professor at Pepperdine, UC Berkeley and USC who previously ran statewide campaigns, said that Garvey would have been a competitive candidate in a state where Republicans have a fighting chance.

“There are not that many rivers that are going to be able to sustain salmon through time with climate change, and I think that this really gives us a fighting chance.”

He told the Times newspaper there was “no risk free options available” but probation officials had been given a “fighting chance” to get it right by the way the scheme’s implementation had been planned over the summer.