It seems to me that the odds are around 60 that real negotiation will not begin until tax rates go up on January 1. And it seems to me that, if gridlock continues into 2013, the odds are 60 that it will tip the US back into recession.

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.

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.

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.

For a long time, these two issues seemed to be at odds. The developing world understandably does not want to sacrifice its growth for a global public good, especially when the United States, the richest country in the world, seems unwilling to sacrifice even a little of its luxurious life style.

My brother seems to enjoy himself at college.

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.

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.

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.

Yet it seems, again and again, that we're hopelessly bad at it.

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

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

At times, it seems to be wider at the back than the front, and then it shifts.

Then they'd ask, can you teach it at MIT? It seems too useful?

So meritocracy seems preferable, at least at first sight. But, on closer inspection, things are not so simple.

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.

Well if you look at the macro level, it seems more money, more HIV.

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.

Unfortunately, the IMF s rebalancing efforts are proceeding at a glacial pace. At the World Bank, nothing seems to be happening at all.

So, I'm either really good at faking it, or this particular model seems to work.

You ever notice here in America, social equity seems to peak at about age 24?

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