Sentence examples for odds behind from inspiring English sources

Those of us accustomed to receiving mechanized non-answers from corporations must be surprised and grateful -- as I am -- to encounter an editor who actually took time to "demystify" the thinking and the staggering statistical odds behind the acceptance -- or turndown -- of the letters submitted to The Times.

We should perhaps learn to accept their series finales, even premature ones, and remember Al Swearengen forever calculating the odds behind the bar of the Gem or Titus and Lucius on opposing sides working out what each had gained and lost.

While Gov. Jerry Brown has declined to endorse a November ballot measure to extend current tax rates on California's most wealthy residents, he made it clear on Wednesday that the proposal has some pretty good political odds behind it.

Find out how Zeiltin's blown up truck became a prop, and how "as a community you can challenge some pretty fierce odds" in our behind-the-scenes documentary.

But it's also a troubling new tool with which to construct a Potemkin identity, a facade at odds with anything behind it.

Against all odds, the brains behind the All Blacks successful "no dickheads" policy would appear to be, on the face of it, a bit of a dickhead.

In this weekend's Your Money column, I try to lay out the facts and odds that lay behind the question of whether any of us have enough auto insurance.

Sometimes you can be behind odds wise but still played the hand optimally.

From the start of his challenge, Mr. Gore faced daunting legal and public relations odds because he had finished behind in the initial Florida count and because the television networks and many newspapers had prematurely declared Mr. Bush the winner.

The magnet program is squarely at odds with the No Child Left Behind Act.

While the library's most popular titles are progressive tomes on politics and the economy, donated books are never rejected, even if they seem at odds with the ideology behind the protest.