Sentence examples for vast odds from inspiring English sources

In the course of the war that followed, the Jews overcame vast odds, guaranteeing their survival and expanding the territory allotted to them under the original plan.

The Arena Amazonia stands tall amid the green landscape, the vast bowl at odds with the tropical surroundings of this city in the north of Brazil, a three-and-a-half hour flight from Rio de Janeiro.

From his guitar, he controls a vast assemblage of musical odds and ends, from pianos to rows of tuned bottles.

Unlike their tiny radioactive sample, though, those existing neutrino detectors are vast (to shorten the odds that the elusive particles deign to react with at least one atom inside it) and often sit deep underground (to shield the detectors from other particles which leave neutrino-like traces; only neutrinos, thanks to their signature unwillingness to react, are able to penetrate ).

The fact that the effect sizes detected by these large-scale studies were relatively small [for the vast majority, the associated odds ratio (OR) was <1.20] suggests that most, if not all, of the earlier candidate-gene studies were underpowered to detect associations of a realistic magnitude.

The Forward said Netanyahu was embracing a political party whose values were at odds with the vast majority of American Jews.

"He is out-of-step with the anger that has overwhelmed his party and puts it at odds with the vast, sensible mainstream of this country," Joe Klein wrote on Time.com during the New Hampshire primary.

Walking through the lobby of my hotel, Le Parker Meridien on W57th St, my nostrils were lured by a hamburgerish whiff that seemed at odds with the vast mirrors and Damien Hirst abstraction.

In the paper introducing the new data, Fed economists note: "Decreases in incomes were much larger for the higher education groups, and mean income actually rose for the no-high-school-diploma group," a finding that seems at odds with the vast majority of recent research on the economic importance of education.

The Republican position is entirely at odds with the vast majority of voters.

This is highly intellectual poetry, accessible yet unpredictable, eccentric yet conversational, quite at odds with the vast amount of pseudo-confessional and epiphany-narrative poems out there, and it refuses to bend to fashion.