So the Congolese and outsiders, the UN included, just have to keep trying against the odds to make it work.
Theatre directing is a notoriously unpredictable career, so it's instructive to talk to two younger practitioners who have defied the financial and artistic odds to make it work.
After 23 months, the odds began to work against the women.
Patients suffering from a condition with a 5-point lower vitality score (compared with patients without that condition) had significantly increased odds of inability to work (odds ratio, OR, 1.27), job loss within 1 year (OR 1.13) and hospitalisation within 1 year (OR 1.08).
The task now for Zimbabweans and outsiders who wish them well is to try, against the odds, to make a bad deal work.The nub of the push-me-pull-you arrangement is that Mr Mugabe is due to remain an executive president, with Mr Tsvangirai an executive prime minister.
Against all political odds, Emil went to work to advance and network Barack Obama and took him under his legislative wing in the Illinois General Assembly, to the consternation of other Black legislators.
Although the state of Israel is wrought with internal and external challenges, it affirmed to me that is was a good decision to make aliyah, to continue the efforts of the people who came before me in building the Land, and even in the face of seemingly impossible odds to continue to work for a better tomorrow.
The present study estimates the effect of various predictors on the odds of returning to work after stroke.
The odds of returning to work depend on age, gender, occupation, self-employment and type of stroke.
The odds of returning to work were higher among people with intracerebral infarction, OR 1.0 (the reference group), than they were among people with subarachnoid haemorrhage, OR 0.79 (95% CI 0.71 to 0.88), and intracerebral haemorrhage, OR 0.39 (0.35 to 0.43).
