Sentence examples for overcame odds from inspiring English sources

Vichai oversaw the incredible fairy-tale 2015-2016 season when Leicester City, managed by Italian Claudio Ranieri, overcame odds of 5,000-1 5,000-1k toe footballing world by winning the Premier League title.

They mystery winner overcame odds of 1 in 292.2 million—but they weren't the only one to strike gold.

"But just like the folks here in Steubenville, and throughout the Ohio Valley, and all the valleys of this country that are the heart and soul of this country, they worked hard, and they overcame odds".

Mine is not the story of a lone woman who overcame odds.

Both overcame long odds to pass legislation, Romney in Massachusetts, Obama at the national level.

Composers at the conservatories in Beijing and Shanghai from the class of 1978, soon after the schools reopened after the Cultural Revolution, overcame daunting odds to begin their careers.

The rebels — a ragtag band that overcame incredible odds, battlefield defeats and bitter internal divisions — have showed extraordinary commitment and resilience.

The senior overcame astronomical odds in recently winning a scholarship from Coca-Cola worth $20,000.

Buxton overcame gargantuan odds to match 17, 49, 54, 35, 1 and the Powerball number 34.

Deep Space 1, a small spacecraft that overcame seemingly impossible odds to complete its primary mission and then capture the best pictures ever taken of a comet, ceased its operations today.

Scored and edited to tug at the heartstrings, it hammers home how Janica and Ivica Kostelic beat the odds, overcame severe injuries and endured multiple surgeries.