"If you are sentenced to state time in Louisiana," Chang writes, "odds are you will be placed in a local prison in a low-budget, for-profit enterprise, where you are likely to languish in your bunk, day after day, year after year bored out of your skull with little chance to learn a trade or otherwise improve yourself.
If it'd be easy and interesting to write, odds are it'd be a good read.
RLW carried out the regression analyses and assisted in writing the odds ratio section.
Pointing to Obama's low approval ratings and a general tightening of the race in the opinion polls, Rove wrote, "The odds now narrowly favor a Romney win".
When the nature of the crime is taken into account, Professor Phillips wrote, "the odds of a death trial are 1.75 times higher against black defendants than white defendants".
Surveying the Republicans' prospects for the midterms last week, Charles Cook, of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, wrote, "The odds of them losing the House are now at least 50-50 and the Senate is in real doubt".
Unless the Democratic Party makes fundamental changes in its structure, tactical operations and long-range strategic planning, he writes, the odds are that the Republicans "will continue to maintain, over the long term, a thin but durable margin of victory".
At the moment of writing it's odds on for that madcap cartoonist David Shrigley.
If they are writing then the odds are good that they are running.
All books are written against impossible odds; the odds just change as time goes on.
