Tenacity is how I kept at it against all odds.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The odds are on the cheaper man.

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.

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.

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

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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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

To understand how women prosper and protect their own and their children's health and well being, despite enormous odds, would, in fact, enable us to design interventions based on individual and cultural strengths, which may ultimately have a greater impact.

With regard to family reunification and family formation, the Netherlands' income criteria and the existence of dependent residence status have been identified as areas where is at odds with the Convention.

Zimbabwe had significantly curtailed freedom of speech and association and freedom of the press in total disregard for human rights, and had enacted repressive legislation at odds with its own constitution.

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

These myriad voices of humanity are not failed attempts at being new, failed attempts at being modern.

Bored in school, failing classes, at odds with peers This child might be an entrepreneur, says Cameron Herold. At TEDxEdmonton, he makes the case for parenting and education that helps would be entrepreneurs flourish as kids and as adults.

Nobody likes being laughed at.

As a result, we built it around a culture and set of values that said what you were good at was being daring, at being courageous, at being independent and self sufficient.