Sentence examples for the odds which from inspiring English sources

The result defied the odds, which until this week had been in David Miliband's favour.

At the Ambassador it feels more like the little show that could, and the sense of aspiration against the odds, which Kleban also held fiercely, is far more welcoming.

(DNA identification has provided the model, because experts have gathered enough statistical evidence to estimate the odds — which are astronomical — that one person's DNA could be traced to another).

Just a month ago, she was unsure whether she would even compete, but Britain's latest Supermum defied the odds, which included a winter and spring curtailed by Achilles problems, for the second world title of her carer.

In fixed-odds bets, the operator's profit comes from the odds, which should sum up more than (100%) 2 for all the possible outcomes of the sport match.3.3

At $2 a ticket, it would cost you $584 million to beat the odds, which still leaves you with $216 million in winnings.

But the Scot's view is supported by the bookmakers' odds which make Federer favourite for their meeting after he outplayed world number one Novak Djokovic in the first semi-final earlier in the day.

First, it does not necessarily change the overall odds, which still favour Angela Merkel as chancellor.

Sports pundits have a dismal record of predicting games relative to the Las Vegas odds, which are just another market price.

She did so despite the intimidating odds, which she recounts in her memoir, My Mother Was Nuts.

The odds ratio is the ratio of two odds, which in the context of GWA studies are the odds of disease for individuals having a specific allele and the odds of disease for individuals who do not have that same allele.