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.

What if my roommate knew about Nollywood, full of innovative people making films despite great technical odds, films so popular that they really are the best example of Nigerians consuming what they produce?

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.

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.

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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.

Experts had argued that funding shortages, lack of security, the problems of stabilizing a legitimate government, and technology shortfalls would severely limit Iraq's output. Despite the odds, Iraq's daily output reached a post invasion record of 2.5 million barrels in March.

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.

Despite all his faults he is popular.

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.

All of this to say, that despite the horror, and despite the death, women are never really counted.

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.

And Ground Zero, despite all its difficulties, it's moving forward.

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.

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

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.

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

Despite all of these similarities, we see huge differences in savings behavior.

Whoever ascribes falsehood to God despite of all the evidence is unjust.

Whoever ascribes falsehood to God despite of all the evidence is unjust.

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.

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

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

Yet despite all that progress we still have a long way to go.

Despite all that power, all that wealth, he was alone when he finally died his ultimate terror realized.

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.

It's an integrated system that has evolved despite all the planning and so on.