Sentence examples for rough odds from inspiring English sources

The odds on the British tax authorities catching up with the potential customer were low, he promised: "Tax authorities don't have the resources to chase everybody down … They reckon it's probably the same rough odds as probably winning the lottery".

For founders, those are rough odds — and they only get tougher over the most recent few years.

Like biological evolution a force that mercilessly kills, eats, and starves animals and plants as it selects for fitness and luck against the rough odds of life, cultural evolution has generally used death and destruction as its lathe.

Childbirth is just one really rough day with — odds are very good — a happy ending.

Odds are no more than rough guides and the odds remain firmly against him reaching the White House.

[More.] My rough guess is that the odds are 50/50, with or without volcanoes.

It's a ridiculously civilized, serene moment — completely at odds with the rough, troubled Baltimore of popular imagination.

Mr. Frank graciously defers, attributing his current success to his players, many of whom defied odds of a rough upbringing and poverty to reach their current station.

Katniss, who for years has bagged game to keep her family from starving, was created for rough stuff — for beating the odds and the state, for hunting squirrel and people both — far rougher than Mr. Ross often seems comfortable with, perhaps because of disposition, inclination or some behind-the-scenes executive mandate.

Chemistry is taught in a store-room, drama in the foyer of the technology department; 563 pupils are being educated in space designed for 380, yet their performance is well above average for an all-ability school.In many ways, this could be any state school that is succeeding against the odds in a rough urban area.

CEO Jason Trost is out to effectively attack bookmakers and other exchanges which he says give consumers a rough deal because of poor odds and commissions.