Sentence examples for superior odds from inspiring English sources

Reggio capitulated, but Modena was held by Guicciardini against superior odds.

"When a person goes up against superior odds, he will definitely pay a price," Mr. Abraham said.

Josh van der Flier was man of the match and Garry Ringrose, against significantly superior odds, had a tremendous game.

Runners, Dr. Thompson and others say, are just so much more plentiful than other athletes; if you find yourself resenting an athlete who fancies himself superior, odds are that athlete will be a runner.

The walls themselves, a triple line of defense, with 192 towers at alternate intervals in the inner and middle wall, were far in advance of anything erected previously; they were, indeed, so well conceived that they served to protect the city against every assault until the Turks, supported by cannon, attacked with vastly superior odds in 1453.

This 44-gene signature is significantly superior (odds ratio [OR] 3.16; P = 0.03) to traditional predictive factors in univariate analysis and significantly related to longer progression-free survival in univariate as well as in multivariate analyses (P = 0.03).

The study, however, provided limited evidence that telmisartan may be superior to ramipril (odds ratio 0.90, 95% CI 0.80 1.01) with regard to cognitive impairment, but there was no evidence of an effect (odds ratio 0.97, 95% CI 0.89 1.06) on cognitive decline.

24 In this analysis of eight randomized clinical trials, the efficacy of ranibizumab PRN, as measured by the percentage of patients who gained at least ten letters, was numerically superior to aflibercept (odds ratio [OR], 1.59; 95% credible interval [CrI], 0.61 5.37).

And even those inclined to desert him after that alarming performance at Navan in the spring should surely persevere with Yeats at those odds, so superior is his best form to that of his rivals.

Even now, after all his success, there are times when you have to remind yourself that he's no longer the plucky young British potential with a questionable temperament, battling away against the odds against superior opponents, but a supremely gifted player with outrageous skill, a winning mentality and two grand slams and Olympic gold to his name.

For the French, Sarkozy's determination to act, despite the odds, seems far superior to the passive cynicism of those who preach abstention or satisfy themselves with empty words.