NOUN | a missed opportunity | missed opportunities | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- Campaigners for the Stonehenge Alliance welcomed the decision, but Historic England expressed frustration over the "missed opportunity to remove the intrusive sight and sound of traffic past the iconic monument".
- Sandra tells Jackie about the missed opportunity but, fearing that Billy will be considered to be gay, both Jackie and Tony are outraged at the prospect of him becoming a professional ballet dancer.
- Herrmann always personally conducted his own works and given that he considered the composition among his best works, he regarded it as a missed opportunity.
- Larson was not able to think of a single thing to say to him and deeply regretted the missed opportunity.
- It is also mentioned in the 2015 movie "The Frontier" by the Luann character as a missed opportunity in her career.
- Pitt considered the war a missed opportunity to take advantage of a power in decline, although later he became an advocate of warmer relations with the Spanish in an effort to prevent them forming an alliance with France.
- Dolittle 2", its preoccupation with toilet humor and Murphy's restrained performance makes this a missed opportunity".
- By October 2003, visitor numbers were below 200 a day and there was criticism over a £2m annual subsidy from Manchester City Council, "The Guardian" architecture critic Deyan Sudjic remarked that the exhibits were a "spectacular missed opportunity", although Urbis did garner some praise in other quarters.
- If the company is too risk-averse, this leads to underperformance and a missed opportunity.
- He is best remembered for his missed opportunity to discover the planet Neptune in 1846.
- However, the UK government decided not to change the current law, which was described as "a missed opportunity" by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
- In her analysis, she suggests that the Waitangi Tribunal has been a missed opportunity to reconcile white guilt in New Zealand.
- The release was shrouded in controversy after reports that the song was actually inspired by a trip to nearby Rhyl, and there were rumours of an outcry among local councillors and businesses in Rhyl about the missed opportunity for tourism which would have been generated.
- Quests of this sort can be found by talking to a non-player character, and there may be no penalty for abandoning or ignoring these quests other than a missed opportunity or reward.
- It was a missed opportunity to do it right. The toxicity of the Common Core standards persuaded me that it is fruitless to rely on national curriculum standards as a solution to education problems.
- The Macartney Embassy is historically significant because it marked a missed opportunity by the Chinese to move toward some kind of accommodation with the West.
- In 1934, Cecil criticised the British government for the missed opportunity of gaining French co-operation at the conference after the electoral victory of the French Radicals.
- He cites that the film had a "disjointed feel", and called it a "missed opportunity" that suffered from being released near "The Matrix" and "Open Your Eyes", which he states did similar things that were accomplished better in those films.
- Ian Ritchie, founder of OWL, presented a TED talk in 2011 describing his missed opportunity to convert Guide to a graphical browser for the Web at its inception in 1990, titled "The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee".
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