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It is, Egyptian observers say, a typically lackluster response to what appeared to be a golden opportunity.

Given how widespread fraud seems to have become, by that calculation, China may well provide a golden opportunity.

How can you let such a golden opportunity to make big money slip through your fingers? It was an opportunity that comes once in a blue moon.

For me, my time in the military was a golden opportunity that allowed me to discover the absolute limits of what I can achieve.

Indeed you might take the view that you now have a golden opportunity to get what you want, and it's just a question of putting in the work.

A novel means of print detection may be a golden opportunity to improve fingerprinting processes. Why is no one paying attention?

I'm glad your father is coming to dinner, it will be a golden opportunity for me to ask his advice.

There is no doubt that this policy will be a golden opportunity for all business sectors.

There is no doubt that Liuyang Fireworks encounter a golden opportunity for development.

It had offered a golden opportunity to development of processing manufacturing, goods and services trade, logistics, tourism in Guangxi.

Three meals a day without charge. Now since you have nothing with you, you mustn't let such a golden opportunity slip by.

After all, part of the fun of blogging is being wrong in a very public fashion and this was certainly a golden opportunity.

But speaking at a rally in Golden, Colorado, Obama seemed to sense a "golden" opportunity to paint his rival as out of touch on the economy.

Happily, the general election would appear to offer a golden opportunity for a debate.

Whether this was the waste of a golden opportunity nobody may ever be sure.

Pepe has not scored for the Under-21 side in almost a year and wasted a golden opportunity after 29 minutes.

Still, could be a golden opportunity. If you spent the entire party flirting with other women, it would drive Mum wild with jealousy.

Iranian delegate Ali Larijani earlier welcomed the new US government, saying it was a "golden opportunity" to improve ties.

Bottom line : Sina's break with Google represents a golden opportunity for it to return to the search business and challenge Baidu.

Yet we have a golden opportunity to turn away from such a course.

Luckily, that day's meal was fried noodles. It was a golden opportunity to practice using chopsticks.

You can't be more stupid! How could you let such a golden opportunity to make big money slip through your fingers? I.

The receiver dropped the ball and missed a golden opportunity to score.

It squanders a golden opportunity to shift away from a payment model that encourages doctors to prescribe too many overpriced tests.

The crisis in the eurozone may threaten the livelihoods and living standards of many, but for some it presents a golden opportunity.

But ironically, the collapse of the euro presents a golden opportunity for China to introduce greater exchange rate flexibility.

If you know the right English to use for the following occasions, you will never miss a golden opportunity!

Nowadays, our basic education is experiencing another round of course reform, offering a golden opportunity to democratic teaching.

Dr Nigel Warburton of the Open University agrees, again citing the commute as a golden opportunity.

But for a perishing fishing industry, ambulance-chasing lawyers, it is a golden opportunity.

I believe that the community now has a golden opportunity to demonstrate our political maturity.

If he is proven right, then the players should enjoy a golden opportunity to redeem their names on the field.

If the Dear Leader really is on his last legs this is a golden opportunity to resolve one of the nastiest legacies of the cold war .

The ongoing reshuffling of China's oil management system represents a golden opportunity for attracting international oil giants.

But one cannot ignore this nagging feeling that China is missing a golden opportunity to finally become a world power.

Mr Cameron has promised MPs that the euro crisis offers a golden opportunity to advance Britain's national interest.

It is a pity that he ~ miss such a golden opportunity.

This offers a golden opportunity for IP rights holders to participate in enforcement procedures, and thus to protect their own rights.

I believe that as part of the needed fiscal stimulus, we have a golden opportunity to invest in Britain's competitiveness.

We are missing a golden opportunity to forewarn new parents of the challenges they might face once their baby arrives.

For China, this crisis is a golden opportunity. It must be seized.

He wasted a golden opportunity when he missed from the penalty spot.

The present crisis is a golden opportunity to eliminate this plethora of damaging interventions.

He little realizedthat it was a golden opportunity.

It is a pity that he should miss such a golden opportunity.

Olympic Games as a distinguished gathering of human civilization, China and the Chinese people, is a golden opportunity.

The Asia-Europe Meeting in Beijing missed a golden opportunity to tackle the crisis.

It has a golden opportunity to reverse the spiral now.

He thinks the ICZN missed a "golden opportunity to prove its usefulness" .

He blamed himself bitterly for missing a golden opportunity.

Should never be oblivious to the slow, never, never, never lost a golden opportunity for major economic loss of signal sensitivity.

SA hit the post in a golden opportunity to win the match just before the whistle.

Spring Break is a golden opportunity for students to relax.

Sir Alex Ferguson admits United's young fringe players have a golden opportunity to impress him during pre-season.

We should regard college life as a golden opportunity for all-round development rather than a period of enjoying freedom and romantics.

You lost a golden opportunity, however.

An increasing number of foreigners invest in China. A golden opportunity beckons.

You will now have a golden opportunity to impress the powers at the top, so keep up your level of concentration.

Olympic Games brings Beijing a golden opportunity. Yet there are still some problems in the process of development of Olympic economy.

He missed a golden opportunity.

This is, as Blagojevich says, a golden opportunity.

A golden opportunity has been lost.

Mr Panetta has a golden opportunity to build a leaner and more accountable Pentagon. He should seize it.

Instead, the drifting plume presents a golden opportunity to learn more about wind currents and chemical reactions in our atmosphere.

We believe this is a golden opportunity for investment.

So it's very clear that if we can hold the Olympic Games, Beijing will gather a golden opportunity of development in every direction .

We have a golden opportunity right on Greek Row.

Lusi presents a golden opportunity to learn more about mud volcanoes.

It means you have a golden opportunity to continue building a relationship.

You have a golden opportunity to travel and learn.

This will provide a golden opportunity for any yang people who want to study in North America without passing the IELTS or TOEFL.

China is missing a golden opportunity finally to become a world power

Recovery is a golden opportunity to gain loyalty