Sentences with word «odds»

With an agenda to organize your meeting and a leader to keep it moving, odds are you'll breeze through your discussion topics efficiently.

For those employees best able to calculate the odds, the place to be in the options sweepstakes is at a company in its «pre-initial-public-offering phase.»

One estimate has the odds of getting hit by debris as 1 in 300 trillion.

We see that a company's odds for success (versus unsuccess) increase with more female executives at the VP and director levels.

The headlines and the actual numbers have been at odds for a solid year, as month - over-month declines from 2016's torrid pace have made the overall market look far worse than it is.

But again, why not do your best to even the odds by eating better and making time to exercise?

The odds are high a black swan event will hit stocks within the next year, according to Tice.

By creating something new, you've made your odds of becoming exceptional far, far higher.

As much as his approach puts him at odds with conventional economic wisdom, Keller can also seem at odds with himself — a registered Republican who calls for more regulation of industry; a plastics maker who speaks out against U.S. reliance on fossil fuels; a nonunion employer whose wages and benefits are a model for the region.

The risk of splitting prizes leads to a conundrum: Ever bigger jackpots, which should lead to a better expected value of a ticket, could have the unintended consequence of bringing in too many new players, increasing the odds of a split jackpot and damaging the value of a ticket.

Organized labour, small business and pension experts are at odds about fixing the pension system — that is, if they even agree it's broken.

The private comments strike a tone starkly at odds with the fiery message she's pushed throughout her campaign, particularly during the hard - fought Democratic primary.

Whether you see real estate as your side hustle or next career move, stories from guests that overcame odds will reassure listeners that they, too, can make a pretty penny from this line of work.

The odds of dying in a plane crash today are reportedly as low as 11 million to one.

But if you're reading this article, the odds are that you've never written a budget for your business before.

Odds are, you're all prone to leaving huge messes in the kitchen, and you will at some point irritate your roommate with your «small pile» of dirty dishes.

But having the ability to keep moving by making adjustments improves the odds of success.

Odds are the idea you are copying is pretty good (otherwise you would not be copying it.)

What Microsoft doesn't have — yet — is the honesty to admit defeat in the face of insurmountable odds in phones and tablets.

Millions have got there before you, and the lower your odds of standing out, the lower your odds of being passionate.

Have enough insight into the rise and fall of companies to realize the odds are against you if you think you can become successful and not attract competitors who will try to copy your product and take your customers.

Most of the research on this topic suggests that your body will always try to get back to your heaviest weight, so I knew the odds were stacked against me.

In other words, Yemenidjian?s odds are probably better than playing against his house.

This may be the case, but like the 3 - 7, the odds are against it.

«You keep them in the workforce, your odds are much higher,» Rometty says.

Even if the recent push higher does turn out to be that peak, odds are the ultimate market highs are not already in.

Every table has a bluffer, and he typically exudes overconfidence, contradicting his odds of success.

Getting audited might be one of Americans» biggest fears, but what are the odds your turn will come up next?

If one of these more popular numbers is drawn on Saturday night, the odds of splitting the jackpot will be slightly higher.

There's no way to guarantee success with a Twitter campaign, but you can stack the odds in your favor by following some simple tips to vastly increase your effectiveness.

Still, there are many ways to improve your odds of getting a loan.

«We're not saying it can't be done, but we are saying that the odds being assigned to success are simply too high,» the analyst noted back in December.

Why not turn these odds and ends of unpleasant time into opportunities to learn by popping on a podcast?

As one of the site's top sellers wrote in a blog post in 2009: «Your odds of making $ 10,000 per year [on Etsy] are better than winning $ 10,000 through the Powerball, though not by a ton.»

They start out focusing on nothing but racing, and if they manage, against incredibly steep odds, to become successful, one day they realize they have become a business... so they find ways to start other businesses.

Why has the glass suddenly become half empty to a group of people who are normally ready to take on the world, regardless of the odds of success?

T - Mobile had previously struggled to keep up with the two largest wireless companies, Verizon and AT&T, but the merger with Sprint promises to boost T - Mobile's odds in the race for customers and technological innovation.

The odds are stacked against a relatively small organization like the DNC.

It's a classic rise - and - fall story about a small company that came from out of nowhere against very long odds and really changed the world.

And while various troubling social factors, including unequal access to health care and the impact of the opioid crisis, have stalled the growth of the average U.S. life expectancy in recent years, odds are that America's higher earners will live longer — maybe much longer — than they expect.

But common understanding and reality are very much at odds, according to Sanders.

For example: place any manager in any position and the odds are the project will succeed, however we must compare the level of success i.e. meet the minimum criteria for success, exceed the expectation of the task or exceeded all expectations!

Demand for gold, the «fear index» has likely be curbed by greater odds of a December rate hike, as well as the surging dollar.

«Mark would speak about «connecting the world through games» and «making users happy,» but the stated values and our desire to create a good user experience was at complete odds with how the company was actually run, which was extremely short - term - focused,» the source says.

«If you front - load your grandchild's 529 twice, odds are they may not spend $ 140,000 when they go to college,» says Egan.

According to Tom Porcelli, chief U.S. economist at RBC Capital Markets, market prices imply the odds that interest rates will be higher at the end of the year are less than 50 %.

Fast chargers along key transportation corridors will put prospective buyers» minds at ease and boost the odds that their next vehicle is electric.

As far as the acting awards, though, Bovada's picks are in line with critics and journalists, with the best odds going to Oldman, McDormand, Rockwell, and Janney in their respective categories.

The good news is: Your odds of success in the online marketplace are better than ever.

The pet industry seems to defy all odds during recessions and has been very little affected by economic crisis so far.