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

We are deploying our peace monitoring military capacity steadily, although we are meeting a number of difficulties.

All of this activity is taking place against the odds.

The Committee also notes the usefulness of the annual training programme for staff of the Palestinian Authority, in spite of the difficulties on the ground, and requests the Division to continue it.

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

Keep to the track, to the beaten track Memory holds all you need of the truth.

For the French, Sarkozy s determination to act, despite the odds, seems far superior to the passive cynicism of those who preach abstention or satisfy themselves with empty words.

Despite the odds, Iraq's daily output reached a post invasion record of 2.5 million barrels in March.

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

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

Never retreat to the 'glorious past.' Keep to the track, to the beaten track Treat every day of your life as your last.

But progress is nonetheless being made.

The people are beautiful and loving despite all the regrets.

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

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

We would like to see a road map prepared for future visits, although we do understand the present difficulties of the CTC namely, that the Executive Directorate is not fully staffed nor fully operational.

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

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Unfortunately, those difficulties are many.

And yet, visitors to Tokyo today see prosperity everywhere.

There is, however, a fly in the ointment.

Despite the whole dark news that comes from Syria, I cannot be pessimistic.

Still, I am not complacent.

Nevertheless, we should remember the lessons of history.

Yet the EU holds back.

He never says thanks in spite of all that I've done for him.

Despite this, both sides are building up their forces.

I was born in a working class family and I can sympathise with all the difficulties these people face...

My story is a story of overcoming setbacks, obstacles and challenges that life throws at you.

And on a particularly dark night of December of 2004, I sat down with my family, and I said that I had become very disillusioned.

Yet, despite all this, Ortega has yet to diminish Lewites s ability to rally the masses.

Nevertheless, this does not raise a new ethical problem.

The UN, notwithstanding all of its flaws, is the one inclusive international institution.

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

He (rarely she) encourages people to dream and also to take risks, persist in the face of long odds, and generate economic activity.

Yet most of Africa s people remain impoverished.

Even so, the new strategy has some benefits.

Everywhere and at all times, being civilized means being able to recognize and accept the humanity of others, despite their different modes of living.

In the US, the low risk assigned to senior tranches of mortgage backed securities made them attractive instruments for banks to hold, given the relatively high return they offered.

Keep to the track, to the beaten track No one is waiting and nothing is there.

Despite all this, the reactionary serfdom system had an adverse effect on the development of the Russian Navy.

Nevertheless, the national consensus has shifted, shaking all assumptions about Israeli politics.

Despite many stresses and strains, India has a remained a freewheeling multi party democracy corrupt and inefficient, perhaps, but nonetheless flourishing.

Despite the heavy gunfire, I've been able to get away from it all and walk through the land of your ideas.

The European Union, for all the woes of the euro, remains the largest economy in the world.