"That's the way that it's looking - believe me I don't know, I am just giving an answer and a reasonably formed opinion - it's looking
odds against," said Still after Eriksson met Thaksin on Sunday for what had previously been described as "cordial" talks.
And he warned that the
odds against an earthquake with worldwide economic effects, most likely centered in Tokyo, were only marginally better, at three-to-one.
In addition to his novels, Killens wrote numerous short stories, plays and scripts; he was the first African American to receive solo screenplay credit for a Hollywood movie, the 1959
Odds Against Tomorrow.
The
odds against winning one of the coveted Rhodes Scholarships are daunting.
The
odds against two players hitting successive holes-in-one are almost five times longer than hitting the jackpot on the lottery.
The
odds against success at Inchon, one adviser said, were 5,000 to one.
To say we've beaten the
odds against success is an understatement.
If an audit sample has been selected at random (or even haphazardly), the
odds against a unique error occurring in a sample is given by the following ratio:
Las Vegas bookies probably would have given Sperling 100-to-1
odds against his business, but he not only survived, he grew the Apollo Group--parent of University of Phoenix and related interests--into a public company with a market capitalization (as of May 2001) of almost $7 billion, making it roughly as successful as many vastly more publicized dot-com champions.
In developing countries, a child born to a mother infected with HIV--the AIDS virus--faces long
odds against survival.
The
odds against chance for his dual performances are over 3,000 to 1.
One recent Saturday night, I went to see the film
Odds Against Tomorrow with a friend.
