Sentence examples for mounting odds from inspiring English sources

England may have gone to Australia as the world's No1 team and the clear favourites, but they were engaged in a hidden fight against mounting odds.

As Vice President Al Gore has pressed his case in the Florida courts against mounting odds and looming deadlines, one person in his inner circle of advisers has been even more determined than he is to fight on: his running mate, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman.

Making sure that you can repeat the performance against mounting odds.

He, at least, looked to be trying to hold it all together in the face of mounting odds over the Christmas period.

Or, are you more positively focused, doing what you can in the face of mounting odds?

The fighting continued for another four and a half hours, Linois defending his ship against mounting odds as the rest of Warren's squadron came into range.

Fontana, last seen as Cinderella's Prince Charming, has an easier time of it but not that much less stage time to enact Hart's transition from eager wannabe to Kaufman sycophant to young playwright determined to click despite mounting odds--all of which he does with princely charm.

Tottenham could easily have lost heavily in the first leg, while the injury absentees have mounted the odds against them.

Their odds of mounting a comeback doubled, from three to six per cent (according to Baseball-Reference.com).com

Followed by a string of firm denials at odds with mounting contradictory evidence, there was outrage, David Letterman jokes, and a less-than-graceful bowing out.

But in this case also the Chinese society is standing at its odds these days with mounting environmental pollution owing to China's fast development.