Sentence examples for making odds from inspiring English sources

If Mr. Abbas does not meet his deadline, then Mr. Arafat is expected to appoint a new prime minister; Palestinian officials were making odds tonight on the potential candidates.

"It's reasonable to assume that if you're making odds, you're not going to make much money if you bet against 'Shrek' and 'Monsters, Inc.' being nominated," said Thomas Schumacher, president of Walt Disney Animation.

Being in the middle of an unfinished project, under pressure, is exactly where she wants to be, she said, even if some theater observers are already making odds against the show's ever being bolstered and shaped enough to warrant a run on Broadway.

Publicly, and with some frequency, Reagan made comments at odds with his own policies.

The odds, however, make it more likely that it will be militantly anti-Western than not.

Like in a sporting event, we make odds, we keep score.

He would probably not have been able to pay the 1,000 rupees ($21.27) monthly rent on his store or keep his business profitable solely by selling locally made odds and ends.

I'm not a turf accountant, so I don't make odds on a double-dip economic setting for next year.

Immediately, the London bookmakers make odds on his replacement.

First, the reduced numbers of children with low frequency of maternal exposures make odds ratios unstable and may have incurred in insufficient statistical power to detect significant differences.

The victory has led to McIlroy being made odds-on favourite with bookmakers to win BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2011.