And yet, you yourself defy all those characterizations.

Tenacity is how I kept at it against all odds.

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

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.

You're not going to defy gravity.

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

The odds are on the cheaper man.

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

Or better, how do you explain when others are able to achieve things that seem to defy all of the assumptions?

Do not defy me, and come to me submissively.

Do not defy me, and come to me submissively.

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

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.

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.

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.

How, then, can North Korea manage to defy its neighbor?

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

Those two departments are sometimes at odds with each other.

You invite me to defy Allah and to ascribe to Him partners of which I have no knowledge, while I call you to the All mighty, the All forgiver.

You invite me to defy Allah and to ascribe to Him partners of which I have no knowledge, while I call you to the All mighty, the All forgiver.

Do not defy Allah. Indeed I bring you a manifest authority.

Do not defy Allah. Indeed I bring you a manifest authority.

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

Well, a lot of people think jugglers defy gravity or do stuff.

It states, Do not defy me, and come to me in submission.

It states, Do not defy me, and come to me in submission.

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.

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

Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.

Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.

Say, I fear, should I defy my Lord, the punishment of a tremendous Day.

But as for those who defy Our revelations these are the people of misery.

Say, I fear, should I defy my Lord, the punishment of a tremendous Day.

But as for those who defy Our revelations these are the people of misery.

But those who defy Our signs, they are the People of the Left Hand.

But those who defy Our signs, they are the People of the Left Hand.

This raises an obvious question How has China managed to defy the Mundell trilemma by maintaining all three policy objectives simultaneously? The answer lies in China s sterilization policy.

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