All of this activity is taking place against the odds.

In fact, China s approach is akin to gambling against the odds.

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

On two fronts, Kaufman has against long odds actually managed to make substantial steps.

The chancellor played for high stakes, seemingly against the odds, and hit the jackpot.

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

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

They also sustained, against all odds, a democracy that, however imperfect and dysfunctional, is nonetheless amazingly vibrant.

True, against all odds and historical logic, Europe seems poised to maintain the leadership of the IMF.

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.

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

The Chilean miners survived against the odds, so perhaps the rest of us will somehow get by as well.

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

After two years and 10,000 miles of endurance, courage, and hope against impossible odds, the Red Armies reached northwest China.

Those are attractive odds.

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

No one should underestimate how difficult it was to travel his road, against incredible odds, to the cusp of the presidency.

The odds are not good.

A country whose very survival seemed in doubt at its founding offers striking lessons in constructing, against all odds, a working democracy.

The odds are on the cheaper man.

Against all odds, Ukraine's opposition groups have helped forge a civil society and healthy political parties far beyond anything seen in President Vladimir Putin's Russia.

This is completely at odds with the facts.

Although Hamas has ruled this out, it has shown no hesitation to use heavy force against its opponents.

But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with the world.

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.

They also are at odds with improving French competitiveness.

DUBLIN Europe s needs and Europeans desires are at odds.

This may be a humane thing to do, for it gives every individual a chance, irrespective of the genetic odds against their paying their way for the company.

Against all the odds, Yemen is undergoing a process of political transformation, with 500 delegates from all parts of society working on plans for democracy, justice, and equality.

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.

Each of the four faced what many deemed overwhelming odds.

The odds heavily favored the second outcome global macroeconomic distress.

In the campaign in the Low Countries in 1703, it defended Tongres against overwhelming odds, giving Lord Overkirk time to re group his forces, until it was eventually captured.

If the government falls down on the job, John Maynard Keynes wrote 76 years ago, and demand is deficient the individual enterpriser...is operating with the odds loaded against him.

Against all odds, there are still blog posts coming out of Gaza, and bloggers are vividly describing the fear they are filled with in the face of ongoing Israeli attacks.

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

Today's great powers have relied on similar methods, also heavy with rhetoric, against puny opponents, but with far less convincing results.

Another common argument against tobacco control that if people are not harming others, governments should not interfere with their individual decisions is at odds with both common sense and the evidence.

My novel is a homage to those anonymous people who every day live, love, resist and struggle for their country, for a better society, even if the odds are against them.

As emerging market central banks leaned against heavy capital inflows in order to mitigate exchange rate appreciation, their currencies became less volatile.

For a long time, these two issues seemed to be at odds.

The two were often at odds over economic, social, and religious policies.

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.