Sentence examples for odds appear from inspiring English sources

The odds appear to be stacked against him.

Saving 'Saved' Nothing's set, but the odds appear increasingly good that a downtown production of Harry Kondoleon's play "Saved or Destroyed" may be saved.

It's at an early stage but the odds appear to have improved: so far 32% of Team GB's medals are from privately educated athletes.

Although white children do better here than in any state, the odds appear stacked heavily against the 85percentt of students in public schools who are black.

I should also mention that if you let the pumpkin caramelise slightly, it will, against all odds, appear more savoury than sweet.

While his odds appear long, the idea that Ariel Sharon could be the next Prime Minister of Israel is certainly not impossible.

No odds appeared to have been offered for Ms Maathai.

In the 26th minute the odds appeared to tilt against Inter when Sergio Busquets went down with exaggerated alacrity under Motta's challenge and looked up with a grin to see a red card being shown to the Brazilian midfielder.

Resilience against all odds appears to be characteristic of Saeed: the same force rises to a point of madcap buoyancy in "The Soldier and the Pigs," one of four Saeed stories available from Amazon.com, in uneven English, for forty-nine ceach each.

There were four women among the initial contestants, but the odds appeared to be stacked against them from the start, with Kadyrov stating that a woman's job is to be a housewife and admitting he thought it would be difficult for a woman to achieve a leadership role in Chechnya.

And a virus that, against all odds, appears to have made it from one ape in the central African jungle to one Haitian bureaucrat leaving Zaire for home and then to a few dozen men in California gay bars before it was even noticed — about 60 years after its journey began.