Wambugu overcame long odds even to get the education she needed for this venture.
While the stakes often seem stacked against Sacramento, Johnson has faced long odds before.
Realistically, the bill faces long odds of passing -- at least in the near future.
This despite very long odds for the kids and parents seeking an athletic scholarship.
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But now that Coburn has declared defeat, the long odds against serious debt reduction have gotten longer.
You know a thing or two about overcoming long odds and rallying people to an important cause.
And even with the long odds, the responsibility for paying the claim may be split among several insurers.
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Bayer HealthCare Chairman Arthur Higgins says many investors have been naive about the long odds small companies face.
But poorly conceived technology strategies can complicate risks, and ill-informed IT investments worsen already long odds of success.
Why enter the race at the end, facing long odds, rather than at the beginning, with much better ones?
Unless you have a super manager these are long odds to overcome indeed.
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Resolving Syria's complex conflict will require substantial diplomatic ingenuity against long odds.
But it won't change the long odds for most would-be Thomas Edisons.
Then Khan received an e-mail from a young man who had, despite some pretty long odds, managed to get accepted into college.
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Chrysler, despite its long odds, is doing surprisingly well under Fiat ownership.
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Mr. Musk also has recruited a crop of young, hard-charging engineers, attracted by the company's freewheeling culture and past accomplishments despite long odds.
House leaders have told committees to come up with new health proposals to replace the Democrats' law, though those also face long odds in the Senate.
Whether it's soccer, a family night board game, or a handheld electronic device-playing challenges us to overcome long odds, tell compelling stories, and work with or against one another.
The real reasons for the decline are likelier to be the growing awareness of the long odds of hitting the jackpot (14m-to-one), and an unattractive twice-a-week design.
But the prospect of a retrial faces long odds, according to a person familiar with the case, and couldn't include the count on which Mr. Edwards was acquitted.
Rick Santorum ended his presidential bid in the face of long odds, slowing fundraising and another bout of illness for his youngest child, who has a chromosomal disorder.
He is Jack Sock, a thoroughly American tennis talent who, against long odds, fits right in at Roland Garros, where he won for the first time in his career Tuesday.
But the long odds of another Republican securing the office - along with four Democratic mayoral contenders - has not stopped the 60-year-old candidate from forging ahead with his campaign.
Against such long odds, how does a company survive?
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Precedent suggests long odds-great athletes seldom make good entrepreneurs.
It can overcome injuries, it can overcome long odds.
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Questioned about what were then long odds at the bookmakers, Dr McDonnell quipped that he had advised his supporters to hold off splashing their cash until they could get a good return.
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