Those two departments are sometimes at odds with each other.

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

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

The odds are on the cheaper man.

Tenacity is how I kept at it against all odds.

It's an anomaly, it's a place where the system actually is at odds with who we are as people.

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

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

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 I probably know somebody who has made a widget.

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

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.

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

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

In the opinion of the source, that is totally at odds with the principle of the presumption of innocence.

Every time you drink a glass of water, he points out, the odds are that you will imbibe at least one molecule that passed through the bladder of Oliver Cromwell.

For instance, if you look at the odds on horses at a racetrack, they predict almost perfectly how likely a horse is to win.

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

He looked at the odds of another world war, of a massive volcanic eruption, even of an asteroid hitting the Earth.

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

It seems to me that the odds are around 60 that real negotiation will not begin until tax rates go up on January 1. And it seems to me that, if gridlock continues into 2013, the odds are 60 that it will tip the US back into recession.

And I really can't resolve, yet, and I'd like to work with these medical researchers to try to understand how there can be these differences, which are completely at odds with one another.

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

Odds to win the league (via Oddschecker) 1,000 1

Beat the odds in a poker style dice game

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

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.

DUBLIN Europe s needs and Europeans desires are at odds. At a time when strong, coordinated action is needed to stave off financial collapse in the European Union, the popular support that drove European integration over the last six decades is waning.

The information provided to the Committee by the complainant is at odds with his own account of the facts to the Swedish immigration authorities.

With respect to such treaties, the French abrogation doctrine is at odds with an otherwise strong trend favouring their continued vitality during armed conflict.

God cites the example of a man shared by partners at odds, and a man belonging exclusively to one man. Are they equal in status? Praise be to God, but most of them do not know.

God cites the example of a man shared by partners at odds, and a man belonging exclusively to one man. Are they equal in status? Praise be to God, but most of them do not know.

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

This teleological approach appears at odds with both the resolution of the Institut de droit international and the theory elaborated in section II above that treaties are affected by armed conflict only when they are incompatible with national policy during the conflict.

As I say, if you're in a swarm, your odds of being the unlucky one are reduced as compared to a small group.

They will not negotiate a separate peace. They would like nothing better than for America and Europe to be at odds, rather than working together.

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

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.

Calculating odds would seem to be something rather easy there are six sides to a die, two sides to a coin, 52 cards in a deck.

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.

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

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