The Death Defying Dollar

Defying the Garden of Eden Syndrome

The odds are not good.

Defying such sour predictions, voters clearly felt that elections matter.

Yet North Korea s world defying belligerency is not utter madness.

Those are attractive odds.

To be naïve among the people you love, defying death and loneliness.

The odds are on the cheaper man.

Amnesty International, Saudi Arabia, Defying World Trends, AI Index MDE 23 015 2001 see also Lamri Chirouf, Defying World Trends , paper presented to the First World Congress against the Death Penalty (Strasbourg, June 2001).

This is completely at odds with the facts.

The key question, however, remains whether China is defying market forces at its own risk.

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.

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.

The odds heavily favored the second outcome global macroeconomic distress.

Each of the four faced what many deemed overwhelming odds.

All of this activity is taking place against the odds.

Douglas said that Lincoln was defying the authority of the U.S. Supreme Court and the Dred Scott decision.

They also are at odds with improving French competitiveness.

DUBLIN Europe s needs and Europeans desires are at odds.

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

Of course, news organizations operate as businesses, and defying powerful governments can be a bad business strategy.

The other civilian leader, Nawaz Sharif, responded by defying his exile, returning to Pakistan, and promptly being re expelled.

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

Meanwhile, a group of women provided the latest sign of domestic restiveness by defying the Kingdom s prohibition against women drivers.

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

But the odds on a soft landing are lengthening with each passing day.

Claudius Barnawolo, a Liberian physician's assistant, also beat the odds and survived Ebola.

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

It was here that Thomas More, later canonized, was put on trial for defying his master, King Henry VIII.

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

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

Meanwhile, Egyptians for the first time are experiencing the thrilling taste of defying tyranny, and enjoying some newly found space for freedom.

Yet she defied all odds of the time even when ARVs were no there.

The odds also favor terrorists, in that one success can compensate for multiple failures.

A group of Saudi women activists have set October 26th, 2013, as a day for defying the state ban on women driving.

With each additional risk factor, the odds of long term damage to brain architecture increase.

While the odds still favor a relatively smooth transition, many uncertainties could derail the reform process.

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

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

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

The odds that Africa one day will receive a fair share of outsourcing jobs are improving.

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

The Egyptian protesters have been defying the night curfew on Sunday, as they continued demonstrating against the 30 year old rule of Muhammed Hosni Mubarak.

The Arab Spring has turned bloody and unpredictably turbulent, further diminishing the odds for peace in Palestine.

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