Sentence examples for understanding the odds from inspiring English sources

While intellectually understanding the odds, aides say, the president finds it hard to conceive of losing to Mr. Romney, a rival he does not consider a serious thinker who knows what he wants to do with the country.

"I got out here early, in September, so I could figure out my way around, get to know which right turns and left turns to make, understanding the odds go up and the evens go down, figuring out which tunnels to avoid at what time," Pierce said, laughing.

2. MAKE SMART CHOICES BASED ON THOSE LONG ODDS Understanding the odds at elite schools can help you plan a realistic strategy.

I am assuming that the authors performed logistic regression analysis with ASA or RCRI as the dependent variable and NLR as the independent variable in a continuous fashion, but this needs to be explicitly stated, since it helps in understanding what the odds ratios mean.

In addition, full-time workers had 2.2 (95 % CI: 1.4 3.4; P value 0.001) and 1.7 (95 % CI: 1.0 2.9; P value 0.036) times the odds of understanding the appropriateness of the performance measures as compared to part-timers and temporary/casual workers, respectively.

This particular way of understanding the tetralemma is, again, at odds with the views of Tsongkhapa.

We therefore predicted viewer eye movements in the Touch of Evil clip would similarly be affected by a cognitive task that was designed to be specifically at odds with understanding the narrative, specifically a map drawing task that involved creating a map of the narrative spatial environment.

And when it comes to understanding those odds, says Reith, we are all of us more or less floundering.

True, the odds that those 90 seconds would be pivotal to my fully understanding the film's ending were microscopic.

Understanding Mizuki requires understanding the yokai.

Not understanding the mission.