Sentence examples for odds to pass from inspiring English sources

The Obama administration's record on workplace enforcement has been fiercely debated in Washington since President Obama announced that he would try, against steep odds, to pass an immigration overhaul this year.

The right and left are at odds, struggling to pass laws and cope with increasing economic woes, exacerbated by the past several weeks of global financial turmoil.

"The world will fall in love with you," my stylist cooed, and initially, against all odds, it came to pass.

What vastly complicates this reading is that Don Quixote was a lone dreamer and the Zionist enterprise was a collective fantasy that, against all odds, actually came to pass.

Unlike the reorganization, which faces long odds in coming to pass, the new investment program, part of the administration's Startup America campaign, is likely to commence this spring.

The skeptics dismissed the odds of pulling together majorities to pass the Torrijos-Carter Treaties on the Hill.

Against the odds, Warren helped push Congress to pass the Dodd-Frank bill that included her plan for financial consumer protection agency.

"It's a game of odds, when to double down and when to pass".

And given Republican power at the state-level — as well as the GOP's willingness to pass strict voter requirements — odds are good that by 2016, our voting system will be even more dysfunctional.

Despite the odds, we have been resilient, and I hope to pass along this resilience to the next generation.

He also said that he considered trying to pass for a first down but played the odds instead.