Sentence examples for odds faced by from inspiring English sources

The outcome of a kidnapping of four European tourists in Niger in 2009 is more representative of the odds faced by different prisoners.

After surveying the daunting odds faced by Occupy Phoenix in a state most recently deemed the fourth worst-run in the nation and home to Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the National Field Director of Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition, Bishop T. Lane Grant, deemed Occupy Phoenix "the Mississippi of this movement" and vowed to lend continued assistance.

People breathing the smoke from these boilers have a lifetime cancer risk of 1 in 1,000 practically the same odds faced by a cigarette smoker.

Those are the long odds now faced by Rhythms NetConnections.

These dragons then dealt with the global menace against the same kind of daunting odds as were faced by the RAF's "few" when repelling the Luftwaffe in 1940 – a parallel sometimes quoted by McCaffrey, who has died after a stroke aged 85.

Beinstein now compares his long odds to those faced by Rep. Dave Brat (R-Va). in 2014.

The battle is highlighted by many historians specifically because Lucullus overcame the numerical odds facing his army.

By Edna O'Brien In 1929, Virginia Woolf delivered a passionate polemic about the odds facing a woman born with a great gift for writing.

Just as we are faced by incredible odds, so too are you.

Faced by insurmountable odds as the Carthaginians swept down the Italian peninsula during the Second Punic War, the Roman general Fabius Maximus simply retreated and retreated, wearing the opposition down by declining to engage with them at all.

Lignocellulosic biofuel development as currently proposed is seen to be at odds with the value of this legacy and the multiple pressures faced by UK farmers at present.