Sentences with phrase «odds at every turn»

Focusing on sitewide conversion design, instead of obsessing over tiny elements on individual landing pages, gives you better odds at turning strangers into leads, and leads into satisfied customers.

She is strong, beautiful, graceful and defies odds at every turn, plié and pirouette.

Damon is every bit as amiable and appealing as you imagine he might be in real life; you want him to survive, you will him to beat the odds at every turn, you root for his successes, you feel for his struggles and you can't help but love his mean shoulder shrugs to the disco beats of Donna Summer.

This guy has beat the odds at every turn, and he really deserves a loving home!

Not exact matches

Everyone turns out to be an expert and a critic, and they are often at odds with each other.

Th former Treasury Secretary has managed to enhance his image at every turn by calculating the odds.

That is, were you to bring two North poles together, they would be «at odds» with the other and would grind away at each other because you can't match up how the surfaces turn in space.

Against all odds, his wild - eyed disciples would participate in this cruciform narrative — birthed in Bethlehem and climaxed at Calvary — and «turn the world upside down» (Acts 17:6)

The third guidepost, in turn, makes evident that there is no credible warrant for Ford's attribution to Whitehead of a reluctance to acknowledge in print changes in his metaphysical position; for this attribution is clearly at odds with Whitehead's well - established habit of explicitly acknowledging in later works (or second editions) mistakes made in earlier ones (or first editions).

With Woods getting off to a blistering start in Round 2 — he made the turn in the lead at 8 - under after an eagle - 3 on the par - 5 ninth hole — the odds of the 14 - time major champion winning his 15th in April at Augusta had improved to 20 - 1 at Irish bookmaker Paddy Power.

Despite this, Chelsea are at short odds of 7/2 to retain their title; turn to a bookmaker's site online to get the best odds for the Blues to be 2017 - 18 champions.

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

«The odds were not in our favor, or at best they were 50/50,» he says now of Marcus» chances to turn a profit in the NFL.

«We do it to turn a profit or at least not lose too much... Nobody will be criticizing the predictive power of our odds, they'll be looking at the money we made.»

As it turns out, the only team whose odds are worth your while at this point is Atlanta's upcoming opponent.

That said, many people saw Stanford's Andrew Luck as the odds on favorite at this time last season and we all know how that turned out.

Thanks to Carson Wentz's star turn, along with seemingly every other NFC contender floundering, their odds now sit at 4/1.

Balague's assessment obviously stands at odds with Mendes's recent comments, but both United and PSG will hope that the forward's head can be turned away from the Bernabeu.

Don't be put off by the overwhelming odds against underdogs at all times, take risks and you could be a big winner at the end of the day, when things take the wrong turn, always know that you can take off the sting of losing with promotions.

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The second date should be more straightforward for Rovers, who are firm favourites to take three massive points from arguably their easiest remaining fixture of the season, and although their odds aren't that great, we aren't going to turn our noses up as we believe they should compound Blackpool's woes and inflict an eight defeat in ten on the Tangerines at Ewood Park.

In the space of one - and - a-half to two hours, the baby turns a tight schedule that keeps parents on their toes and is completely at odds with an adult sense of time.

Patience Presence: If you ask your young toddler to take off his shoes while you turn your back to put down the diaper bag, odds are that he will be playing in the dog's water bowl with shoes still on when you look back at him.

While those two things might seem completely at odds, it turns out that Paladino's report didn't tell the full story of his spending.

The battle over the so - called «toxic toy bill,» which would ban or force disclosure of harmful chemicals in some children's products and sporting equipment, has taken a nasty turn, with green advocates at odds with one another and one organization in particular exerting political pressure on lawmakers to take up a recently amended — and some say weaker — version of the legislation.

Linares has to give up a safe Assembly seat, which he hasn't held all that long, in order to run for the Senate in what could turn out to be a knock - down, drag - out battle between two men who have often been at odds over their respective political careers.

Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio are at odds again, this time over $ 1 billion worth of federal health care funding cuts that the mayor says the governor is «turning into a political football.»

The two have been at odds for nearly all of de Blasio's tenure, though things took a turn for the worse last year, when de Blasio told the press he considered the governor vindictive.

Our picks span a range of prices, flywheel weights, and user weight capacities, so the odds are good that at least one of the spin bikes on our list will turn out to be the best spin bike for your home fitness regimen.

It turns out that for most major scientific concepts, kids come into the classroom — even in middle school — with a whole set of beliefs that are commonly at odds with what scientists, and their science teachers, know to be true.»

That discovery not only surprised investigators, it also was at odds with overheated speculation in the media and around dinner tables that violent video games had helped turn Lanza into a killer.

If the odds turn out to be different with and without greenhouse gas emissions, it suggests that emissions were at least partially to blame.

While the turn - based strategic elements of Fire Emblem may seem at odds with the hack - and - slash nature found in the Dynasty Warriors series, the game does a splendid job in incorporating elements of both and doing them justice.

But to the sure relief of armchair aviators everywhere, director Mark Osborne's «The Little Prince» turns out to be a respectful, lovingly reimagined take on Antoine de Saint - Exupery's classic 1943 tale, which adds all manner of narrative bells and whistles to the author's slender, lyrical story of friendship between a pilot and a mysterious extraterrestrial voyager, but stays true to its timeless depiction of childhood wonderment at odds with grown - up disillusionment.

Initially, it seemed like having Captain America and Tony Stark at odds was going to be enough of a battle, but it turns out there might be another villain in play, but again, we're not sure who he could be playing.

We've come to discuss «Our Idiot Brother» and it's story of the black sheep titular character at odds with his demanding sisters but our conversation quickly turns silly and random in the best way possible.

«Know your lines, turn up on time and do what the director tells you,» Robert Mitchum elaborated, but if ever there was an actor at odds with those bleak, pragmatic mantras it's Daniel Day - Lewis.

A fine cast nearly brings the con across, starting with Stone's plucky turn as the author's surrogate, an ambitious, outspoken Ole Miss grad whose enlightenment puts her at odds with the belles in her hometown bridge club.

If you grew up during the «80s, or have an affinity for the bloated action flicks that turned silver - screen genetic goldmines like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lundgren and Jean - Claude Van Damme into household names, odds are The Expendables at least blipped on your radar.

They concluded, «The hope that we can systematically turn around all troubled schools — or even a majority of them — is at odds with much of what we know from similar efforts in the private sector.»

Similarly, unlike the famously tricky (and easily botched) turn 11 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, the final bend before Speedvegas» straightaway is heavily banked, which dramatically reduces the odds of potentially idiotic moves.

That said, those premiums disappeared as quickly as they arrived, so if you want to get in to an Evoque don't be persuaded to pay over the odds — a bit of research will turn up plenty of Evoques at list price.

I much preferred the DPT's simplified controls; buttons may be useful on a dedicated e-reader, where page turning is by far the most frequent action, but the reMarkable is meant to be like a piece of paper and the buttons seem at odds with that idea.

WHAT IT»S LIKE: An 18th - century Baroque palace turned 10 - room hotel, Palazzo Radomiri is refreshingly at odds with the flashy all - inclusive resorts popping up along the Montenegrin coast.

The obvious shortcoming was that it required users to swap the positions of the equipment; essentially turning the Wii remote into a static IR camera to be mounted near the TV, a position completely at odds with its role as a motion sensitive controller.

Some on Reddit have expressed scepticism at the odds, hypothesising that they've been turned up for Perfect World's Chinese version of the game.

And when you make friends at any level, be it at work, in politics, religion, or any aspect of society that involves people supporting each other, while not being at direct odds, there is always the risk of someone wanting to turn a blind eye to the obvious.

It turns out that he and his father were at odds for years over how to help their patients.

It is interesting to note that it is the down turn in what is attributed to sol that absorbs the rise in AGW that is at odds with the surface data.

But as Deep Blue showed on the chess board and Watson recently demonstrated on the TV quiz show Jeopardy, it turns out robots might also be better at calculating those odds than humans.