Sentence examples for odds of succeeding from inspiring English sources

Obama has better odds of succeeding with health-care legislation than he does with his attempt to reform journalism.

"But I agreed to meet with Michael, and I told him the odds of succeeding were pretty close to nil.

All have set their sights on the local market, which gives them good odds of succeeding, said Bill Metzger, a trade publisher in Buffalo.

She was referring, of course, to Mr. Klein's plans to improve the school system, an effort that many believe has better odds of succeeding than past chancellors' because Mr. Klein is working hand in hand with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.

Such suits against an author generally have low odds of succeeding, but given that Ms. Cooper filed it with the blessing of her employers it raised some eyebrows in Jackson and elsewhere.

Ms. Karimova-Tillyaeva, the younger sister, who is 35, told the BBC that her older sister should forget about becoming president of Uzbekistan because her odds of succeeding their father were minuscule.

But the odds of him succeeding his brother are still long.

Explaining why he was ruling himself out of standing at the time, Mr Goldsmith said: "The odds of my succeeding in the mayoral contest, I think people have had enough of white male Etonians, I'm not sure my chances would be very high".

As science improves, so will the odds of litigation succeeding.

And the odds of litigation succeeding are getting better all the time.

The Clintonites have already begun using the L-word, and that will surely continue and escalate; indeed, the issue of legitimacy can be (and likely will be) used as a rationale for Hillary's remaining in the race, despite the slim odds of her succeeding.