This aversion to social values may seem at odds with the explosion of community service programs.

Tenacity is how I kept at it against all odds.

Those two departments are sometimes at odds with each other.

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.

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.

While he claims to have deserted in 1994 on humanitarian grounds as a conscientious objector, consciously exposing himself to the risk of very severe punishment, his humanitarian concerns seem totally at odds with his violent criminal conduct on arrival in France and subsequently.

While it may seem like splitting hairs, continuing to frame the economic goal as a target sends a message of determined and explicit guidance that now seems at odds with the government s market oriented intentions. Wouldn t dropping the concept send a far more powerful message?

President Obama and congressional Republicans have been at odds for most of the year over Zika.

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.

Now, estimating odds, as difficult as it may seem, is a piece of cake compared to trying to estimate value trying to say what something is worth, how much we'll enjoy it, how much pleasure it will give us.

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.

I guess we seem to be doing at least a few things right.

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.

I mean, after all, if you look at babies superficially, they seem pretty useless.

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.

It would seem that the development of binding legal standards is premature at this time.

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.

We're looking at something different, and didn't seem to recognize, in fact, they were looking at pretty much the same stuff.

But to do it, you have do something that may, at first sight, seem completely impossible.

And it didn't seem, at least, that your sell outs, whatever they were, were very big.