So Judah Maccabee gathered a small band of believers to fight this oppression, and against all odds, they prevailed.
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And against all odds, I'll have correctly forseen, at least for my little group, that most remarkable of Academy Award miracles: a 90-minute Oscar telecast.
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.
And yet, apparently against all odds, Putin is still here and Russians are still, generally, supportive of him.
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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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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.
Best of all, while the rest of the region staggered through its economic crisis, Australia, against all odds and expectations, has thrived.
Against all odds (and precedent), Rupp summoned a late charge to edge Lagat by 15 hundredths of a second.
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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.
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.
The 3DS is a success, and Nintendo has somehow continued its hit streak against all odds.
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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.
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.
Far from an indication of chaos, the close election and the legal battles that follow show that, against all odds, the American constitutional system really works.
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And Mr Kim will himself take note if, against all the odds, the distraction of North Korea lets Saddam Hussein wriggle free yet again.
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.
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.
Yet against all odds, Poland did survive: indeed it has never been richer, happier and safer.
After all, even if against all odds Saddam Hussein were actually to cooperate with international efforts to find and destroy his weapons of mass destruction, and such efforts were to succeed, he could be back in the WMD business within six-months time.
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