Sentence examples for deadly odds from inspiring English sources
In this context, the assessment of security is something of a gamble against unknowable, and possibly deadly, odds.
Sunnis and Shias remain at deadly odds, with a new combatant force in the Kurds, whose clans stretch from Turkey into Iran and Iraq.
Shep's pipe dream is blown to smithereens when it turns out that Glynis has an announcement of her own: she's been diagnosed with mesothelioma, a type of cancer associated with exposure to asbestos, and in her case, a deadly form with terrible survival odds.
This year is looking just as deadly, although many Iraqis hope against the odds that the recent elections will bring progress and stability.
Steering a plane directly into and through deadly hurricanes would appear to be at odds with that maxim.
At times, every brushstroke can feel like a victory, against tall odds, of high humor fringed with deadly seriousness.
Opponents of the new law say that eliminating licensing requirements will result in more people bringing more guns to more places, increasing the odds of an accident or a deadly conflict.
In a spine-chilling editorial on January 7th, entitled "An Engineered Doomsday", the New York Times implored scientists to destroy the deadly H5N1 strains in the name of safety.The odds of that happening are long.
Deadly blasts have shaken major cities as the rebels seek to even the odds between their outgunned forces and the tanks and helicopters in Mr. Assad's arsenal.
There are tangos out of "Mahagonny" and march tunes reminiscent of "The Seven Deadly Sins," divorced from their Brechtian irony, and precursors of "September Song," which seem at odds with the biblical setting.
