0 a small but real possibility that something can be done: --
1 a small but real possibility of success: --
They have pulled us through to a fighting chance.
Surely he must want to sustain our industry and to give our industrialists, the workers in the industries—the inventive people — a real fighting chance in the world market.
They were fully conscious of the fact that somebody had done something to give them a fighting chance to survive if a disaster occurred.
That protection is in the form of principles, which give the individual, who is weak, a fighting chance.
Those principles weight the criminal system in favour of the defendant to ensure that we all have a fighting chance.
No child born in a slum really has a fighting chance.
We wanted to prepare ourselves to help the civil population, and we felt that we had a fighting chance of doing something about it.
Let him have a fighting chance of obtaining results.
