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

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

Helping the ECB Cross the Rubicon

All of this activity is taking place against the odds.

Unfortunately, those difficulties are many.

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

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

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

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

We had some difficulty getting over the Khyber Pass, but we wound up in India.

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

Keep to the track, to the beaten track Never return to the bridges you've burned.

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

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

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.

The Tribunal is aware of the difficulties that situation may cause with respect to its functioning.

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

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

That is also our hope, and hope is what sustains us in adversity, stimulates our belief in life and encourages us to forge ahead.

Taking note of the efforts of the Sahelian Member States to overcome these difficulties

I urge them to stay the course and help the new Government to complete the unfinished agenda and tackle daunting post election challenges.

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

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

And so I think the capability of women to put themselves I think we're better about putting ourselves into the other guy's shoes and having more empathy.

Iraqis turned out despite many difficulties and attempts at violent disruption.

The presentations emphasized the difficulties some argued impossibility of reaching consensus on the mechanics of changing the Council's membership and the question of veto power.

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.

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

She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that We Shall Overcome. Yes, we can.

First, it has become clear that some Member States have encountered difficulties or need assistance in the implementation of the sanctions measures, particularly with regard to the assets freeze.

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

Welcoming also the efforts made by the Central African States, both on their own initiative and with the support of the international community, to focus on the difficulties afflicting this key region of Africa,

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

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

Such cooperation offers the chance to transform victims into survivors, and to transform Chernobyl from a symbol of destruction to a symbol of human resilience and hope.

But Larry Page made an impassioned speech at our organizing meeting, saying we should devote this study to actually addressing some of the major challenges facing humanity.

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

Prayer and spiritual devotion were important components of Cory s daily endeavors and a major influence in her decision making and personal relations. Her inner reserves of faith, indeed, kept her going through every hardship.

However, given the nature and complexity of the difficulties that most of us face, international assistance is indispensable, due to the lack of adequate financial, human and material resources in most developing countries.

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.

Secondly, we appreciate the continued efforts of the Court to cope with its workload through rationalization of the work of the Registry, greater use of information technology, improvement of its working methods and through securing greater collaboration from the parties in relation to its procedures.

Appeals to all Muslims and Islamic financial institutions to be generous and to contribute to the process of overcoming the economic difficulties experienced by Kyrgyz Republic either on bilateral basis or through multilateral and regional organizations so as to enable Kyrgyz Republic to fulfil its economic programme.

Because of the difficulties Palestinians face under military occupation in traveling around their own country, the Festival will travel to its audiences. It will tour to Ramallah, to Jenin, to al Khalil Hebron and to Bethlehem.

First, the local entrepreneur serves as a role model. He (rarely she) encourages people to dream and also to take risks, persist in the face of long odds, and generate economic activity.