Sentence examples for historical odds from inspiring English sources
This is not to say that he will also lose the presidency, only that the historical odds are against him.
Colleagues credit him, more than Mr. Lott, with helping overcome historical odds to return his party to the majority, adding two seats to the caucus.
But that assumes that the city can beat the historical odds when it comes to the generally dismal record of football stadiums' helping to draw large events and conventions.
The answers are that it does matter – Obama's approval rating can greatly affect the 2014 midterm elections and, to a lesser extent, the 2016 presidential election – and the historical odds of it recovering much seem to be slim.
For all its historic success, London will be relentlessly tested in the future.Club rulesEven before the revolution at the stock exchange, the City had defied historical odds by re-establishing itself in the 1960s and 1970s as the top international financial centre.
Asked about his poll ratings, Mr Miliband said: "I knew when I took this job on that we were going to have a tough fight, because we are trying to defy the historical odds, which are that governments who lose elections don't tend to be one-term oppositions.
Vargas Llosa has often been drawn to such fanatical historical figures at odds with society.
But I would argue that, based on the historical evidence, the odds are clearly in the favor of the equity investor.
Sure, it may not be as brutal as its historical predecessors, and odds are if any of the cast ever got in the ring with Chuck Liddel they'd get their asses handed to them, but what the show delivers for a hefty ticket price is the excitement of violence without all of the nasty ramifications.
It is a clash of the kind that has occurred elsewhere on Long Island when municipal and commercial interests have been at odds with historical values and preservationist sentiment.
But as he watched the continued protest over the disputed Florida ballots that secured the White House for George W. Bush, Bishop Blake found himself at odds with his historical allies.
