1.   Decisions about which changes to pursue are based more on locating a ripe opportunity than finding the perfect solution or ideal moment.

2.   In other spheres as well, budget cutbacks of recent decades have created ripe opportunities for public investment.

3.   Sensing a ripe opportunity for a behind-the-scenes look at the Iran-contra investigation, Toobin kept extensive notes on the case.

4.   The election offers the U.S. a ripe opportunity to help the reformists and further its own strategic interests.

5.   To his thinking, the new president provided a ripe opportunity by straying from his new Democrat campaign rhetoric.

6.   For President Bill Clinton, there has been no time wasted in seizing the ripe political opportunity.