Sentence examples for odds from inspiring English sources

However, the proposal may still put the UK at odds with the EU over restrictions on free movement of workers.

The plot can be boiled down to one sentence: "Unhappy woman has bad time in space but survives against the odds".

The brutality of Isis is increasingly at odds with his own views, which have mellowed with age as he has come to believe that the teachings of the Qur'an can be interpreted and not read literally.

"It's sort of an open secret among attorneys that regularly make police station visits, this place – if you can't find a client in the system, odds are they're there," said Chicago lawyer Julia Bartmes.

If McGowan does upset the odds and win – she is placed at around $3.50 by Centrebet, down from more than $50 at the start of the campaign – it's unclear how well her values of inclusiveness and consensus will fare in the Canberra bear pit.

Like, because they are really working against all odds to police a city with 15 million people, and have to be on their toes constantly from one festival to another providing security on so many counts.

Plibersek will raise the issue at July's ALP national conference, putting her at odds with the party's leader, Bill Shorten, and other members of the frontbench.

"No other British bird has come so close to the brink of extinction before defying all the odds to flourish in our modern landscape.

The odds on such a coincidence occurring must be staggeringly high.

You could reduce the odds of backing a loser by investing in a tracker fund, such as the HSBC FTSE All Share Index, which simply replicates the performance of the wider stock market.

Bookmakers, already week after last week's budget raised the tax on lucrative fixed odds betting machines from 20% to 25%, dipped again on reports that the weekend's Premier League football fixtures were bad news, with all the favourites winning and costing them £20m.