This elephant, against overwhelming odds, simply gives up hope.

Tenacity is how I kept at it against all odds.

And the odds are seven to one against your finding the prince.

And all this against incredible logistical odds, like heat and traffic jams.

Against enormous odds, her small farm grew, creating jobs for nearly 200 rural women.

Some people are born in hells, and against all odds, they make it to heavens.

The humanitarian operation launched in late 2003 has been remarkably effective this year, against overwhelming odds.

However, institutional and negotiating capacities require a sustained, comprehensive and long term effort that is at odds with short term operations.

Against all odds, mortality rates are now one third of what they were in the beginning of 2004.

For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter in law against her mother in law.

For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter in law against her mother in law.

I returned to Singapore and, in 1990, performed Asia's first successful cadaveric liver transplant procedure, but against all odds.

There are, in fact, many encouraging examples of how we can achieve results, at times even against the odds.

But it shows you Africans, and particularly African women, who against all odds have developed businesses, some of them world class.

He put up a brave and lone struggle, but up against such heavy odds he couldn't get his business plan accepted.

The odds are on the cheaper man.

The system was able to provide massive relief to all tsunami affected communities in the Indian Ocean, against all odds, in the course of a few weeks.

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Beat the odds in a poker style dice game

The reason is, this isn't how people do odds.

This is something that happened without foreign investment, without government aid, and actually, it happened against all odds, in one of the most difficult moments in Nigerian economy.

The Chilean miners survived against the odds, so perhaps the rest of us will somehow get by as well. But who, exactly, is responsible for the rescue operation?

In Sweden, UNHCR developed a web based game called Against all odds giving secondary school pupils an insight into the experience of being forced to flee their country.

It makes no odds. In fact, in the Northern Hemisphere, we're further from the Sun in summer, as it happens, but it makes no odds, the difference.

Odds are, you're not going to care in five years.

Those two departments are sometimes at odds with each other.

Odds are I probably know somebody who has made a widget.

Just trying to play the odds. All right, here we go.

CAMBRIDGE Agreement among negotiators from 12 Pacific Rim countries on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) represents a triumph over long odds. Tremendous political obstacles, both domestic and international, had to be overcome to conclude the deal.

And these goals aren't necessarily diametrically opposed, but they are at odds.

That's our modest role. We cannot change these societies, but we can help the people in these societies who are struggling and usually failing, because the odds are so stacked against them.

CAMBRIDGE Creditors and debtors have found themselves at odds for as long as money has changed hands. But rarely have the issues been framed as starkly and in such a public manner as in the just completed Greek referendum.

And as long as we fight horizontally, against life, against the winds, against what's happening to us, life is a nightmare.

If you look at the statistics, the odds are not very favorable to us.

The way people figure odds requires that we first talk a bit about pigs.

The greatest harm comes from the cumulative burden of multiple risk factors, including neglect, abuse, parental substance abuse or mental illness, and exposure to violence. With each additional risk factor, the odds of long term damage to brain architecture increase.

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And then you draw the conclusion the odds of winning the lottery are 100 percent.

President Obama and congressional Republicans have been at odds for most of the year over Zika.

This aversion to social values may seem at odds with the explosion of community service programs.

Such an approach is at odds with the budgeting process in the United States and elsewhere.

But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon.

But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon.

Consider Deng Xiaoping, China s most successful reformer (the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 notwithstanding). The grand coalition that he forged, against all odds, upon his return to power in 1979 was essential to bringing about the economic transformation that followed.

Once again the similarity with what happened in Western Europe at the time of the euro's implementation is striking. The government of Romano Prodi, having managed against all the odds to get Italy into Europe's monetary union, fell three months later.