Odds Against

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

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

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.

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

She claims that she can calculate, according to her system, the odds against anything.

As the continuing crisis in European government and bank bonds shows, the greater the threat of loss, the shorter the odds against a run.

The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable.

Still, given the numerical and procedural odds against it, the opposition will struggle to make headway.

Defensive: for away games with clear odds against you, at home if you face heavy pressure only.

There are heavy odds against investors making a profit in such an economic climate.

Despite the odds against them, the Texans refused to give up.

You are warming my heart, my warriors, little ones, you came a long way with many odds against you.

Imagine the odds against that happening.

the odds against this ever happening are high.

The odds against survival in this camp are even worse.

It's long odds against his coming home this winter.

5 is where the Rockets will be unless something really strange happens. I like the Rockets odds against Utah.

Perhaps they will, but the odds against this are long: more like 20-1 than 2-1.

Against all the odds, against all your pain your backs on the wall with no one to blame