6 sentences with 'opportunities'
Example sentences and phrases with the word opportunities and other words derived from it.
• « In the surviving plays of the ancient Greeks, there were very few happy endings, but many opportunities to relate to or mock the fate of the protagonists. »
• « However, most Roman subjects were just that: subjects, not citizens. In the provinces they were subject to the goodwill of the Roman governor, who might well seek opportunities to extract provincial wealth for his own benefit. »
• « A handful of women writers did emerge in the course of the Middle Ages, but since there were almost no opportunities for women to learn Latin (with the major exception of the education given to some nuns), they were excluded from the world of medieval scholarship. »
• « Napoleon was a great contrast. On the one hand, he was a man of the French Revolution. He had achieved fame only through the opportunities afforded him by the revolutionary armies; as a member of a minor family of Corsican nobility, he would never have risen to prominence in the pre-revolutionary era. »
• « There was a concomitant embrace of a specific form of democratic politics and market economy: "social democracy", the commitment on the part of government to ensure not only the legal rights of its citizens, but also a basic minimum standard of living and access to employment opportunities. Social democracy was born out of the experience of war. »