Sentence examples for odds to achieve from inspiring English sources

Like Seabiscuit, the horse's owner, trainer and jockey overcame significant odds to achieve phenomenal success.

Mr. Lucero's triumph echoes the success of thousands of immigrants who have beat the odds to achieve positions of prosperity and influence in the United States.

Hassman avoids falling into stock characterization — the deprived but talented protagonist who overcomes great odds to achieve success — by emphasizing the gut-wrenching details of Rory's childhood.

Hitler's personal obsession with the composer was, perhaps, partly to do with his identification with Wagner the man: he saw him as a lonely figure who had battled against the odds to achieve greatness.

Those are miserly odds to achieve something no other Welsh team in history has managed, namely a series victory against one of the Tri-Nations hosts in their own land.

These young leaders overcame tremendous odds to achieve great success in Washington, D.C. and public policy.

Today's emergency summit meeting in Sharm el Sheik, Egypt, will have to overcome long odds even to achieve agreement on restoring calm in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.

In the lowest three practices staff battled against the odds, unable to achieve higher uptake rates.

Kauto Star, who was odds-on to achieve his third Gold Cup victory, made a monumental blunder at the eighth fence that Ruby Walsh seemed unlikely to survive.

Relative to placebo, the odds of failing to achieve a vaginal delivery were lowest for vaginal misoprostol (≥50 µg) (odds ratio 0.06 (95% credible interval 0.02 to 0.12)), with a 39% absolute probability of event (95% credible interval 1%to94%4%).

But European leaders remain at odds on how to achieve their goals, including the best way to recapitalize the banks.