Remember, the deck was stacked against you.

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.

Europe needs a sense of purpose for a century in which many of the odds will be stacked against it, as well as a statement of the moral standards that will guide its actions and, one hopes, its leadership.

Stacked

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

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.

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.

What is needed today is a clear definition of Europe s interests and its responsibilities. Europe needs a sense of purpose for a century in which many of the odds will be stacked against it, as well as a statement of the moral standards that will guide its actions and, one hopes, its leadership.

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.

In some cases 100 homes can, in effect, be stacked on one another.

In larger theatres, multiple levels are stacked vertically above or behind the stalls.

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.

My entire past life is stacked in boxes, humble boxes that don t manifest their grand contents.

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.

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 .

This is completely at odds with the facts.

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.

The gold standard was less popular in the South, but there Bayard stacked his years long advocacy in the Senate for pro Southern conservative policies against Tilden's political machine and wealth in the contest for Southern delegates.

Try to imagine 143,000 Eiffel Towers stacked one on top of another, or a pile of 10 trillion bananas.

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.