There has been no boasting about our social workers—they are merely signs of the system's failure, of opportunity denied or not taken, of things to be eliminated.
For the Princess, the trip to this war-torn country was an excellent opportunity to use her popularity to show the world how much destruction and suffering landmines can cause.
Negotiators have released a draft version of a new global agreement on climate change, which is widely billed as the last chance to save the planet from the ravages of global warming.
Human landscapes of lawns, fields, or flowerbeds provide settings with bare soil and a lack of competitors that are perfect habitats for colonization by opportunists.
While her advice may sound superficial, it gets to the heart of what every cancer patient wants: the chance to live life just as she always did or maybe better.
Karajan did nothing worthy of respect, nor did he do anything to curry favor of the Nazis. He was young and opportunistic. "I only wanted to grasp every chance to conduct…"