Calculating the odds that Ebola will spread is complex.
The stock halved in value and analysts were calculating the odds on AIG's survival.
His main business is insurance, and calculating the odds then beating them is what he does.
Mr. Cruz, in other words, was calculating the odds of success in terms of the Congressional, rather than presidential, outcome.
The bookies who made this name the favourite actually seem to have thought little about unfortunate royal role models in calculating the odds on other names.
A few of them scribble out notes like racetrack rookies posturing as touts, calculating the odds of some dark-horse deal.
Mr. Lush, too, said that calculating the odds, whether on a celebrity relationship or a horse race, is pretty much the same.
To begin with, Enron has to come up with a reasonable long-range forecast, calculating the odds of a balmy summer.
Everyone they try to draw into their Christian sphere is more knowing, more corrupt, and better at calculating the odds than they are, from Mr Dean and the young Indian princeling General Dilip Rai to the young student Kanchi.
We're not troubled by the probability of ending up mangled while driving to work, but the numbers aren't unknown (and we're more than happy to let insurance companies make enormous profits by calculating the odds).
He passes the time calculating the odds of winning the lottery (one in 13,983,816) against the odds of dying in any given minute (one in 49,200,000).
