Against all the odds we've managed to make a real occasion out of this film's opening in Europe.
They are convinced that, against all the odds, they will be able to turn their dream into reality.
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Perhaps, against all the odds, a player has turned the match around -- snatching victory from the jaws of defeat to win in dramatic fashion.
Eidur Gudjohnsen flicked on to free Drogba, who shrugged off Senderos's tackle and against all the odds remained on his feet after Lehmann and Lauren tried to clear the danger.
Against all the odds it will be France against England in the semifinal at the Stade de France next Saturday rather than the Australia v New Zealand encounter most people expected.
But one magazine is fighting against all the odds.
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She didn't, of course, and we see the devastating impact it had on a woman who had had to fight against all the odds to make it to Number 10 in the first place.
If we looked at all the odds stacked against us as a retail bike shop, why would we have any confidence whatsoever that anyone would actually make the effort of stopping by our store to buy a bike?
Both are based in modern day India, both feature characters who succeed against all the odds, and both have garnered considerable critical acclaim, with "Slumdog Millionaire" recently awarded the three top prizes at the British Independent Film Awards.
At one stage, Rangers were seven points adrift of holders Celtic - and written off in most quarters only to defy all the odds to triumph by four points as their city rivals stumbled to a home draw with Hearts.
But against all the odds, on the 16 July 1969, just 30 months after the fatal fire - the first Saturn V rocket attempting to carry men from the surface of one world to another rose into the Florida sky.
You could hire a guide, but you would be missing most of the fun and all the deals - odds are your guide is related to the shopkeeper or gets a commission.
Making the pre-game odds all the more obvious, the expectation race was pretty well locked into place when, during the traveling clown show referred to as the Republican presidential candidates debates, Mitt Romney invited Governor Rick Perry to join him in a friendly wager among friends involving ten thousand dollars.
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Already, as the post-war baby-boomers reach their 50s, Japan's lifetime-employers are carrying the cost of paying their senior workers over the odds in return for all the wages they forwent two or three decades ago.
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Then there is his memoir, Against All Odds: The Making of a Billionaire, published two weeks after his funeral.
Against all odds, the Coyotes have managed to make the playoffs the last three seasons, going all the way to the conference finals last season.
Against all odds, the blessed Steven Tyler was honest with Brielle.
Even if, against all odds, the Kremlin were to agree to curbs on tactical nuclear weapons, their relatively small size and ease of portability means that any such limitations would be inherently unverifiable.
Even if, against all odds, the Security Council does throw down the gauntlet to Saddam, he is virtually certain to allow intrusive inspections to resume rather than giving the U.S. a pretext for internationally supported action against him.
I'm not going to tell you how, against all odds, the movie manages to pull this off, but part of the magic lies in an exquisite encounter in a hallway toward the end, after many convolutions of the plot.
Second, even if, against all odds, the Security Council does throw down the gauntlet to Saddam, he is virtually certain to allow intrusive inspections to resume rather than giving the U.S. a pretext for internationally supported action against him.
If, against all odds, the latest intelligence estimates are right that it will take Iran a bit longer to get such long-range missiles, it would mean that we just might be able to have defenses against them in place before they are needed.
Just as the Versailles Treaty produced not a lasting peace but an interlude between and pretext to war, so the Vance-Owen "peace plan" will assure the future outbreak of regional hostilities -- even if succeeds (against all odds) in temporarily suspending the present ones.
The perilous battle that was fought during World War II in the Pacific at Iwo Jima was a battle against all odds, and yet this picture immortalizes the victory of young GIs over the incursion against the Japanese.
Just 5 percent were able to persist in the top-half all 5 years, while random luck puts the odds at 6 percent.
In fact, despite all of the above, the odds are against him.
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But whereas Karr and Johnston are mere journalists, Crawford is a former White House aide aiming against all odds to change the regulatory philosophy.
Versions of four genes increased the odds of all five disorders.
An actuary engaged by the London Sunday Times (Lloyds of London) concluded: On November 22, 1963, the odds of all those witnesses being dead by Feb. 1967 are one hundred thousand trillion to one.
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Friday and checked to see whether the lakes, against all odds, had risen high enough to allow irrigation water to be released.
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