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.

Remember, the deck was stacked against you.

The current international trading rules and systems are heavily stacked against developing countries.

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

Tenacity is how I kept at it against all odds.

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

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

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

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

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

But America has not provided it a point recently made by Jeb Bush, a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. In our country today, Bush said in a speech to fellow conservatives, if you re born poor, if your parents didn t go to college, if you don t know your father, if English isn t spoken at home, then the odds are stacked against you.

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

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.

If you look at the picture, you'll see they're stacked up.

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

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

Here's calabashes that Issa was just showing us, and they're stacked recursively.

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

He put up a brave and lone struggle, but up against such heavy odds he couldn't get his business plan accepted.

In some cases, these materials were neatly stacked alongside the road for pick up.

Approximately 150 to 200 steel water pipes extracted from the ground were stacked along the road.

The odds are on the cheaper man.

Allah loves those who fight in His Way lining up as if they were a stacked building.

Allah loves those who fight in His Way lining up as if they were a stacked building.

And every single day these tuna, bluefin like this, are stacked up like cordwood, just warehouse after warehouse.

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.

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.

And I'm going to use as an example the Internet, because it's a particularly good example of stacked simplicity.

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.

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?

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.

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.

We had to arrange the spaces so that they stacked on top of each other without needing to hunch down.

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

Those two departments are sometimes at odds with each other.

And you can see, you go inside the family enclosure you go inside and here's pots in the fireplace, stacked recursively.

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

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

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

And yet, just like Salman, they were lifelong, tenacious self learners, and our home was stacked with thousands of books, records and artwork.

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.