Sentence examples for odds making from inspiring English sources

This changed the odds, making the finesse the percentage play.

Like all surviving Polish Jews of their generation, the two had lived through the Holocaust against enormous odds, making the joy of that moment all the more poignant.

In his second year of Westminster odds making, Johnny Avello, director of race and sports operations at the Wynn Las Vegas, sets odds on breeds' chances of winning, not on particular dogs.

To others, Elbow will seem unadventurous - particularly to the person who bet so much money on Burial that the bookies had to slash the odds, making the reticent south London dubstep auteur the most leftfield bookies' favourite ever.

Having a version of a gene may change the odds, making you more or less likely to have a trait, all things being equal, but as we shall see, the actual outcome depends on a tangle of other circumstances as well.

A Reuters news report said his "assessment shaped early odds making of how the court would rule in a few months," and on the day the decision was handed down, it momentarily sounded as if Mr. Toobin's prediction had come to pass.

Changes in infinitesimal odds make little difference to them.

And Gingrich's long odds make the upside, for Adelson, even greater.

An apatosaurus called Arlo (voiced by Raymond Ochoa) endures a terrible catastrophe and against the odds makes a human friend.

Chase's creative leap was to grasp the transformation of the Mob genre, its passage from tragedy to farce, and, against all odds, make something new.

Her determination to survive despite steep odds made her a symbol of hope for Cantor Fitzgerald, where hundreds of her colleagues perished.