Tenacity is how I kept at it against all odds.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Much less noted was the visit of Yemen s president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, to Washington, DC. Against all the odds, Yemen is undergoing a process of political transformation, with 500 delegates from all parts of society working on plans for democracy, justice, and equality.

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.

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

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?

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.

Now the good news is that the odds of it actually passing through this keyhole and hitting us next go around are one in a million, roughly very, very low odds, so I personally am not lying awake at night worrying about this at all.

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.

That's three. The odds of me getting all four of these right by random guessing would be one in 10,000 10 to the fourth power.

The fact that all those tickets are owned by one guy changes your decision to play, even though it does nothing whatsoever to the odds.

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.

Against all odds, Ukraine's opposition groups have helped forge a civil society and healthy political parties far beyond anything seen in President Vladimir Putin's Russia. Indeed, Russia's president is rallying behind Yanukovich, who has open backing from Russia's ambassador in Kiev, former Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin.

Against the odds, a general consensus was built and maintained that encompassed the elimination of entity competencies, the transfer of all defence responsibilities and personnel to the State, abolition of conscription, and the establishment of a restructured and small reserve force to back up the downsized professional army.

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.

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.

Fayyad s strategy for international recognition of a Palestinian state is to fight a legal battle against Israel in the United Nations Security Council and other international bodies. He is convinced that establishing a Palestinian state would serve the interest of all parties, and that the odds favor the Palestinians in international political struggle.

Each of the four faced what many deemed overwhelming odds. Yet, by responding properly to their economic and political challenges, they all delivered poverty reduction, greater social justice, and expanded civil liberties.