Sentence examples for shifting the odds from inspiring English sources

But today they sided with Mr. Bush, by the narrowest possible margin, shifting the odds markedly in his favor.

What's different now is that climate change is shifting the odds towards record-hot summers and away from record-cold winters.

The accusation is that they were slapdash in their analysis (in particular, the small tremors would normally be regarded as shifting the odds towards expecting a quake, not away from it) and cavalier about publicising their conclusions which should have been that the risk of a quake had, indeed, risen and that people died as a result.

As in blackjack, learning a basic strategy is the first step toward shifting the odds in your favor.

Whoever he was, his bet has now shifted the odds; the Tories are now on 6/1.

It shifts the odds in favour of the P5 [five permanent members of the UN security council].

Based on past data we were able to do that and help shift the odds in their direction".

It wins, but a big bet at the last moment shifts the odds dramatically and reduces their winnings.

There are several ways to pick a baby's sex before a woman becomes pregnant, or at least to shift the odds.

While Mr. Videgaray's resignation may have been intended to stanch the political bleeding in Mexico City and salvage the president's standing, it also shifted the odds in the contest for future leadership of the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party, or P.R.I.

And Mr. Rubin and other experts point to a conspiracy among slot machine workers who rigged the devices with software patches that shifted the odds when a particular sequence of coins was entered.