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.
In the 1990s, WWF started a process in densely populated Netherlands that against all odds transformed 100, 000 hectares of agricultural land back into nature in a joint effort with farmers, corporations, homeowners, government agencies, environmentalists, and others.
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We've charted our own course against all odds with a shared sense of determination and optimism at every pass.
But whereas Karr and Johnston are mere journalists, Crawford is a former White House aide aiming against all odds to change the regulatory philosophy.
Perhaps, against all the odds, a player has turned the match around -- snatching victory from the jaws of defeat to win in dramatic fashion.
Mark Whitacre, whose case was written about in three books ( The Informant, Rats in the Grain, and the newest book, Mark Whitacre Against all Odds) is such a person.
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.
Then there is his memoir, Against All Odds: The Making of a Billionaire, published two weeks after his funeral.
While Mazzio didn't take home a medal, her years of strenuous, against-all-odds training served her well as an entrepreneur.
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?
The 3DS is a success, and Nintendo has somehow continued its hit streak against all odds.
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So Judah Maccabee gathered a small band of believers to fight this oppression, and against all odds, they prevailed.
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It is something he wrote about in a book he wrote with Stevin Hoover, Mark Whitacre Against All Odds.
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One of my favorite movies is "Waiting for Guffman, " Christopher Guest's sardonic yet ultimately hopeful 1997 comedy about the fictional small town of Blaine, Missouri, and its against-all-odds attempt to put on a one-day musical for the town's 150th birthday.
Against all the odds we've managed to make a real occasion out of this film's opening in Europe.
Against all odds (and precedent), Rupp summoned a late charge to edge Lagat by 15 hundredths of a second.
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Suffice it to say that teacher and pupil are looking for the same thing surcease from what a more pretentious playwright might call existential loneliness and that, against all odds, they find it.
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In 1997, against all odds, she created the daytime talk show, The View, a program co-hosted by five women, which was unprecedented at the time.
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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.
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