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Lee was the odds-on favorite to become the next president of the company.

I want to ask is a female after excising a side oviduct, how much is the odds that remnant is pregnant below a tubal circumstance?

If you were to try a password (or better yet a pass-phrase) that had any complexity to it, odds are that you'd get nothing back.

A few big predators have memorably beaten the odds, at least for a while.

But if it is executed professionally, it can tip the odds in favor of making a good decision, and those odds are what our life is all about.

And yet individual countries are making progress, steady progress, sometimes stunning progress, against the odds.

AMERICA'S federal debt is so vast that it is hard to think about: a few billion here or there seems to make little odds.

You know you're a God in the making; even if your present path in life is at odds with that eventuality.

And the odds are that it would not pass if it were brought up for a vote today.

And if it did, what are the odds of the UAW or Washington politicians giving their blessing? Pretty close to zero.

So, as I said, the odds are that barring major mistakes, the next four years will be much better than the past four years.

He admitted that, as he faced death, he might be overestimating the odds out of a desire to believe in an afterlife.

"Pesky new fossils. . . sharply at odds with conventional wisdom never seem to cease popping up, " Ruben wrote in his PNAS commentary.

To halt the Yangtze crossing, the Kuomintang had a navy and an air force. Outwardly, the odds appeared in favor of Chiang Kai-shek.

Odds are we'll never need them. But it's better to be safe than to end up in a situation that resembles a Michael Bay movie.

Despite poverty and great odds, they were supporting themselves and their families and trying to find new ways to improve their lives.

The odds of getting an old job back are better if you were let go for budgetary reasons and the company outlook has improved.

That's like being both the smartest person in a room as well as the tallest. What are the odds of that?

Some of the statistics seem to paint a surprisingly benign picture of the industry at the moment, but the reality seems at odds with this.

Odds are, at least one of his friend's neighbors had a drill that was sitting idle.

She had had to put up with so much that she expected her children to take the same odds.

Mr M is not a fan of me learning to fly, believing that it increases the odds of him being left to organise the self-catering holidays.

But if you boost the variety of fruits and vegetables that you eat, you may be able to lower those odds a bit.

But this is often at odds with the desire for academics to work on "industry relevant" problems, as well as to get funding from industry.

Well, take a look at me now, Cause I'll still be standing here And you coming back to me is against all odds.

He was AT odds with the Russian avant-garde school of the time, but his work showed the confidence of a man sure of his style.

Most cheetahs on East Africa's plains do not live to see adulthood, and it's mother's job to help her offspring beat the odds.

The arc is often the same: a period of calm, a growing crisis, a satisfying triumph against overwhelming odds, a kiss.

Doctors are at odds over how much sun their patients should get.

Detergents used in factories and mills are also increasing the odds that some medicines will no longer be able to combat dangerous diseases.

Mint seems to relax the muscle that keeps the valve at the top of the stomach clamped down, increasing the odds of reflux.

Yet although Tata may have paid over the odds, it got a big confidence boost out of it, as did India as a whole.

Women of all ages were always holding out for "him" , often against the odds, but this seems to be going out of fashion.

On each, Merkel is at odds with Washington (and London), though she prizes a strong alliance with the White House.

And you coming back to me is against the odds, and that's what I've got to face.

Each ten-fold increase in a woman's blood was linked to a 30 percent decrease in her odds of getting pregnant.

LOUIS: Me? Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age! I'm at odds with everything and always have been!

But it would be easy to overstate both the problems facing Ms Rousseff and the odds that she will fail to solve them.

The paper-shop window is a litter of odds and bobs; if the light is kept on at nights the children make it a meeting-place.

Even if future hacks do see some advantage in trying to skew the odds of future elections, it may cost them dearly to try.

The odds, just, are that it will do so. But it will be a year of danger and uncertainty as well as hope.

China's culture of secrecy is at odds with its invitation to foreign companies to help modernize its business sector.

Dublin's bookies seem to agree: the odds suggest he might be in with a chance.

From that point on, the rescuers will only be able to hope that she, like the rest of her species, will beat the odds and thrive.

What are the odds that this mystery strategy game may turn out to be Heroes of Might and Magic VI?

This is one of those cancers that once you're diagnosed with it, as you said, the odds are very much not in your favor.

When I was a kid, if you could get a recording contract, and go in the studio, that meant you had beaten the odds, you know.

Ofgem is also at odds with the government over its estimates of how much consumer bills will have to rise to pay for the investment needed.

The odds of such action are now better than they have been for a while, a point Moody's made the same day as it affirmed its AAA rating.

OK, so the odds of a woman reaching out to hold your hand while you're flirting with her are slim to none.

Had he stayed in the Army, odds are he would have been a career colonel, or a professor at the Army War College.

Odds are that if someone you know has installed, used, or played around with a PHP framework, that framework was symfony.

With poker, it is not just about the cards, but "pot odds" --the cards, plus how much you can win, and what you have already bet.

Democrats and Republicans are still at odds over how much spending should be cut to fund the government for the next six months.

We also found a mug, a package of powdered cocoa, and a few other odds and ends.

Against the odds, it will not be turned into one of the vast palm-oil plantations that are eating up so much of the country.

The demands of efficiency and of equality have always been at odds, but they seem to be coming ever further out of synch.

But a daily tipple did not cut the odds of heart disease in women, according to the findings reported in the British Medical Journal.

The latter is important since the general-equilibrium effects are sometimes at odds with intuition from a partial-equilibrium approach.

I reported to Nixon that the odds were two out of three in favor of a rapid conclusion of the war.

However, she had the insight to shift the odds in her favor and do everything possible for a cure.

He had to put in for a transfer to another department since he has always at odds with the office manager.

Occasionally, I need to geek out on numbers, work out some odds, or integrate some word puzzles into a game.

British bookmaker William Hill has already offered odds that Jackson would not turn up for a run of concerts.

The image of administrative agencies as a "fourth branch" seems, at least formally, at odds with this three-part paradigm of government.

Economists said the odds of that happening were low.

Okay, I'm all packed now, except for a few odds and ends I'll put in a handbag and carry on the plane with me.

Now the odds of this meeting even taking place would have seemed "unheard of" just a couple of weeks ago.

Against all the odds the brothers today celebrated their first birthday together despite one having spent almost a year in hospital.

It also increases the odds of an ugly quarter or two before the effects of that extra spending kick in.

That can put funds at odds when a company is trying to restructure out of court.

For the moment, she is preparing for her next appearance on Britain's got Talent and she is the odds-on-favourite to win.

Now, through the power of the Internet, we were at odds for the world to see.

But McCain remains undaunted by the long electoral odds in the final week of the campaign. He spoke to a rally in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Odds are that if you're reading this article to begin with you're already a self-identified life hacker to a certain degree.

The site should be able to integrate the odds of plenty bookmaker, compare the odds and present them in a good looking way.

As I wrote earlier, the idea of the "self-made person" is at odds with its moral connotations.

Commitment, passion, team spirit, defiance of the physical odds? if you were seeking a moment to sum up our season, there it was.

In at least two cases, family members are at odds and plan to let a court decide which path they should take.

It is just a matter of time before bookies offer odds on the outcome of his case.

Clearly the views of these bloggers were at odds with a substantially large portion of the rest of Iran.

You risked your own life to save your fellow soldiers and defeat the enemy despite the impossible odds.

So the bottom line seems to be: If we have a fair amount of warning, the odds may be pretty decent that we can shoot something down.

Against the odds, a party loyal to him did better than any other in an election in 2007.

The odds were ten to one in favor of him going.

She pieced together odds and ends of cloth and made some clothes for her baby.

to complete his strange appearance , captain flint sat perched upon his shoulder and gabbing odds and ends of purposeless sea - talk.

What were the odds that I just happened to stumble upon the only breakable game the very first time I played the lottery?

Let me throw a mathematical dilemma at you - there's 500 left, well how come the odds of you winning are a million to one?

"Your dad is not a child, " Margaret chided, adding, "The odds have always been against him, and he has never sugarcoated anything. "

She has shown me that even when all the odds are against you, you need to fight and stand up for what you believe.

British bookmaker William Hill has already offered odds that Jackson would not turn up for the performances.

Rather, we suggest that this particular application of adaptability was directly at odds with the purpose of menus.

A seller of second-hand goods would be ashamed to give away such a remarkable collection of odds and ends.

What's striking about this recent flurry of activity is how at odds it is with current investor sentiment in the U.

During lunch breaks, my colleagues and I played for a few pence and I found I was quick at calculating the odds.

He's moved most of his stuff; there are just a few odds and ends left.

The abrupt slowdown in human movement might seem to improve the odds that America's broken immigration system will be overhauled soon.

Yeah? What's the odds of him walking again?

Scientists figure humans may be born with a fear of spiders and snakes, healthy phobias that up the odds of survival in the wild.

Most experts believe that the odds of a such a back door slipping in are nil.

No matter that the case is flimsy: the court has already declared the key elements of the treaty "not at odds" with the Czech constitution.

Dr Mahathir, who has been at odds with Mr Abdullah for three years, said he would co-operate.

She made a suit for her boy out of odds and ends of cloth.

Nehru and Friedman, at odds over central planning, agreed on at least one point. Both viewed India's development as a long haul.

If these odds and ends were to be looked down upon, it would mean a big difference in the amount of the profit of the factory.

But Lula triumphed over the odds to become "the poor boy who came from a shack to be president of Brazil" .

He made a meal of the odds and ends that were left in the refrigerator.

When a customer's buying preferences are sensed in real time at a specific location, dynamic pricing may increase the odds of a purchase.

It is understood that this participation is not at odds with democracy.

'The odds of that happening are very, very, very low, but having Howard there adds just one extra layer of protection. '

So odds are slim they'll waft up to a human nose and fuel sudden passion at a nightclub.

The odds of the two rocks being part of a binary system is small -- if they were, they should have hit simultaneously.

If you prepare for your worst case scenario, you'll find it makes the odds of it happening much less likely.

If you know someone who plays one of these games (and odds are you do) here are a couple console games they might enjoy.

From odds and ends of information, it still cannot be predicted whether the war will be upgraded.

You can think of those who struggle even harder than you do, against far greater odds, and with far less to work with than you do.

That combination offered me the best odds, if you know what I mean.

The betting odds were that GM's planners were either war gaming how it would fold Chrysler in to the company or cut spending.

Up to half of women stop taking the drug prematurely but in doing so significantly reduce their survival odds, says Cancer Research UK.

Krueger said: "Our odds remain above 50 percent that the government will not shut down on Saturday, though it is close to a jump ball. "

Is against all odds and that's what I've got to face.

In your heart you know that the odds are whatever you give might be the wrong color.

I constantly remind ourselves: not angry, not odds, to like the heart of the one hundred kinds of things a hundred different people.

As for expectant mothers, they must be treated during their last month of pregnancy to lessen the odds of a breakout during childbirth.

And, despite the "odds" out there, it IS possible to get HIV from only ONE episode of unprotected hetero sex.

Following their talks, it was clear that the president and Democrats in Congress remain at odds over the funding.

"It might still rain on the parade, but I think the odds are now on their [the organisers'] side, " I said.

At midday in the US the market appeared to be putting equal odds on a big half-point cut in rates and no rate cut.

That said, the odds are still against strategic breakthroughs on either front.

France and Germany had been at odds over whether private holders of Greek bonds should be involved in a Greek rescue package.

The Box I saw today appeared to support Hulu, but it'll be a miracle (and at odds with history) if Hulu doesn't try to block it.

Canada and the United States are at odds over the sovereignty of the Northwest Passage that links the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans.

The odds against winning are very large , but everyone who tries believes he might win , and one actually will win .

The odds are that the next president will have to deal with some major financial emergencies.

Odds are some of your clothes are going to be too delicate for a machine (like, say, your New Years Eve outfit).

The two countries have also been at odds over an oil find in Lake Albert, which lies between them.

But one explanation may be that Austrian economics, precisely, itself is at odds with common prejudices and people cannot accept that.

And those who take fish oils as well as a multivitamin could be consuming too much vitamin A, raising their odds of brittle bones.

He looked at the odds of another world war, of a massive volcanic eruption, even of an asteroid hitting the Earth.

You do realize that the odds of that happening are a little slimmer if they never get to meet the guy.

But, I don't think science and religion are necessarily at odds with one another.

Yet for all the new agreements, stringent protection of foreigners' intellectual property is at odds with China's development strategy.

Abraham incredulously followed up, "The odds are in your favor? You're sure of that? "

A woman who overcame tremendous odds to go from "homeless to Harvard" has turned her life story into an American bestseller.

Betting exchanges operate somewhat like an eBay for betting, allowing punters to offer odds and then matching them with takers.

Once the stench begins to die down, shareholders in UralKali will find the odds strongly in their favour for the long run.

Among the odds and ends he discerned a little shining object, and picked it up.

If you carve out an overt benefit and become known for that, the odds that people will choose your product or your service increase.

Most of all, the bank's executive board remains at odds over the bank's future.

The risk is clearly higher than it was a few months ago, but the odds still favour a peaceful resolution.

The game should hit at least one low point before the climax where the player feels the odds are stacked against him.

In the overall analysis, vitamin E use did not affect the odds of tuberculosis in smokers.

He did not offer odds on this prediction.

Less than two years later, with the economic crisis barely contained, the partners are at odds.

When Mr Lamy invited trade ministers to the WTO's lakeside headquarters to try and shape an agreement, the odds were no better than evens .

The speck of dust represents the odds in favor of your being born; the huge planet would be the odds against it.

You might look like a genius when you flop the nuts and somebody pays you off, but the odds say that's just not going to happen too often.

It ' s not pleasant being at odds with you. Couldn't we sit down and solve the problem intelligently?

Those of you who are finding yourselves struggling and at odds with self and others are those who are like the salmon swimming upstream.

They faced impossible odds, and yet somehow, they persevered.

Two main factors increase the odds of a script being duplicated in a single web page: team size and number of scripts.

Those demands kept Russia and China at odds with the United States, Britain and France over a proposed draft resolution.

"It was more than luck, " White said. "It was against all odds. "

Christopher Reeve proved that wearing colored spandex doesn't have to be at odds with giving a nuanced performance as an actor.

Elected easily , Roosevelt attacked corruption with vigor , championed social legislation, and was consequently soon at odds with Platt .

it is possible for the race to be won at very long odds.

The result of generalized legal plunder is moral chaos precisely because law and morality have been set at odds.

It is possible that those fears associated with increased odds of survival in our ancestors evolved over time by natural selection.

During his address Obama noted that he and Bush had been at odds over the war.

This raises a practical question about whether ethical behavior is at odds with the notion of maximizing reported profitability.

If there was a dial tone and you dialed a number, the odds were two in three you wouldn't get the number you were intending to reach.

It goes from 4 to about 8 to about 12 in terms of odds of being diagnosed by a clinician with depression over the next year or so.

Plus , odds are the international experience will provide advantages in an increasingly global job market .

Murray, who was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor two years ago, is also facing the odds in his personal life.

It is "modem" , certainly, but it is an expressive modernism that was quite at odds with the rectilinear "international style" of its time.

The best way of thinking about market values is in terms of odds.

Analysts believe China has had to pay above the odds to get its foot in the door.

The bad news: Fierce competition means your odds of landing one of these jobs are poor.

Perhaps a few right- wingers will now start shopping at Whole Foods as a gesture of support for Mr Mackey , but the odds are against it .

The social dilemma is a special situation in which individual rationality is at odds with group outcomes.

In recent months, China has made aggressive claims in historic maritime disputes, putting Beijing at odds with its neighbors.

The odds of such a birth are about a million to one, experts said.

Certain bets on the craps table have some of the best odds in a casino, unless you're going to do real work like counting cards.

I don't agree that it's a sure thing, but as I said, you have better odds if you follow your passion.

America's most significant architect, he was the archetype of the visionary artist at odds with capitalism.

If you were a woman reading this magazine 40 years ago, the odds were good that your husband provided the money to buy it.

Particularly fascinating was Mises's role in politics, and the influence he was able to exert against overwhelming odds.

The odds of a mental health-related hospitalization were significantly reduced in patients with an MPR of at least 0. 80 (OR 0. 82).

We'd all like to feel that when we produce an estimate, the odds on it happening are better than those of picking a winning lottery ticket.

You know the odds of winning -- millions to one against you. But he struck it rich -- he won ten million dollars!

Against all (the) odds, he finished his work well before the time that he wanted to leave.

Mr Elmeskov said the odds had improved that the worst was over in financial markets.

If there's a line in Vegas on the odds of life on another planet, now might be a good time to place a wager.

do not try to fight your way through against the terrible odds of syntax.

He has overcome these odds two or three times in his lifetime already.

At room temperature, the odds of that happening are once in a billion years.

The result is an uncompetitive and sluggish industry, at odds with the dynamism of the economy as a whole.

According to Laura Larbelestier, designerwear buyer at Selfridges, customers are prepared to pay over the odds for unique pieces.

As I say, if you're in a swarm, your odds of being the unlucky one are reduced as compared to a small group.

if verified, would be entirely at odds with modern stereotypes of hidden, thinly scattered tribes scratching out an uncertain existence.

William Hill had been offering 5-to-1 odds that video technology would be introduced by FIFA before the next World Cup.

The National Safety Council has compiled a list of the odds of perishing in a variety of accidents which makes for sobering reading.

Amassing a fortune is at odds with ascension; it creates more attachment and ascension requires releasing attachment.

NATO's hot war, in Afghanistan, is going badly and the alliance is at odds over further expansion.

The odds of that happening are a little slimmer.

Indeed, you lived and believed in the separation that set the dark and Light at odds with each other.

The artist and the self-critic . . . are, with a few felicitous exceptions, forever at odds.

One of only two Iraqis to compete in track and field this summer, Hussein is proud and determined to represent Iraq, despite the odds.

Secretary Clinton's pledge of support for a two-state solution may put the Obama administration at odds with Israel's new leadership.

Objectively speaking, for a majority of investors, views that are at odds with those of Jim Rogers are probably wrong.

The odds are roughly one in ten that such a blast will occur in the next 40 years.

She shook her head decidedly, and Charles and Hal put the last odds and ends on top the mountainous load.

As animal parents struggle to help their young survive their first days in the wild, they face seemingly insurmountable odds.

Analysts at ISI Group, a stockbroker, put the odds that those last two measures will be extended again at a bit above 50%.

Isn't the motivation to give men pleasure at odds with the general "pleasure theory, " though?

This matters, for history suggests that Italian governments at odds with the church do not last long.

Srivastava could tilt the odds in his favor, like a gambler counting cards in a casino.

There is no guarantee that it will work, but on a population level, odds are that it's better to get a flu shot than not.

My client prefers to stay home and trade stocks where the odds are much more to his liking.

In most circumstances, the odds were against the Jews. However, they always made it, not matter what they were up against.

While some users might miss some posts here and there, the odds are that most of your users will see most of the entries.

They're like a long-odds bet on a price jump. That gives you plenty of upside in a boom with small risk.

By creating a business that sought customer convenience first and foremost, Bezos defied the odds and came out swinging.

And the physicist says, "yeah, but what are the odds of that happening? "

The odds-on favorite, a four - year - old named Sheila's Kid, challenged around the clubhouse turn and got hung up on the outside.

This week your need for freedom is at odds with your desire for deep bonding.

I'd put even odds on a 1995-type government shutdown sometime over the next couple of years.

Odds are that the conventional phone call will be just one of many forms of telecommunication.

Yet, against all odds, with the backing of his parents, has enough self-motivation to do well, even though everyone thought he couldn't.

Some years ago I knew a woman who taught me in her quiet way to never quit no matter how long seem the odds against healing.

Bolder reforms in these twoareas would increase the odds of a more positive verdict from future currency reform anniversaries.

Although the virus is likely to lose potency as it spreads, it will reach more people, so the odds of further fatalities could still rise.

One of the common stereotypes of adolescence is the rebellious, wild teen continually at odds with Mom and Dad.

The odds aren't great for such a team to repeat without landing any significant outside help.

You can't force somebody to fall in love with you. But you can definitely improve your odds.

Multivariate logistic regression and odds ratio assessment were performed as well.

The A-share market is like a gambling parlour where the odds are so lopsided you never win, by Mr Cheah's description.

This comes at odds with the general assumption among dieters that alcohol is fattening.

Smart politicians are always in short supply, however, and I think the odds against this effort are formidable.

Ignore the critics. The odds have to be on his side. The reason is simple: Inflation.

Then bags of vegetables. Finally a mattress, clothing and odds and ends from his bare one-room flat.

Although the force of your speech can sometimes overcome a poor impression created by personal appearance, the odds are against it.

Because it really is "love against all odds" in every sense of the word.

This will be one of those rare months when everyone will agree you are the odds-on favorite to prevail.

I'd like odds a little better than "pretty sure" right now, even as attractive as these five stocks are.

And of course you have to believe, sometimes with little data, that you can succeed against the odds.

I was at odds with Mary about the schedule. She wanted me to work on Saturday, but I couldn't.

And for congressional Democrats, who face daunting odds at the polls, it provides an economic issue they feel will resonate with voters.

The odds are someone in the area you know has dealt with them before, and they are usually happy to fill you in on what they're like.