Gerald Jonas of The New York Times noted that " Against all odds, the universe of Dune keeps getting richer in texture, more challenging in its moral dilemmas.

Against overwhelming odds, Greece survived, and classical Greek culture, so influential in ' western civilization ' was able to develop unabated.

Against all odds, they win 5 – 3.

" Against considerable odds, we do like characters ," Turan concluded.

Against all odds, the product apparently worked fine, as if nothing had happened.

* " Against all odds "-All odd numbers are up and evens down.

Against all the odds, massive underdogs Huddersfield pulled out what is regarded as possibly their best performance of modern times, Stuart Donlan and Chris Nero with 2 tries apiece and Michael De Vere with a try and five goals steering them to a 30 – 12 victory.

Against all odds, Hawkins wins the joust because his armor was incidentally magnetized by a lightning bolt, but he refuses to deliver the coup de grâce, sparing Griswold's life.

Against all the odds the Robins won, 40-36, their best result in the competition since their 1980 Challenge Cup win against local rivals Hull F. C.

Against all odds, Zenon manages to use the computer virus program that Andrew created to save the space station, and Wyndham and Lutz get arrested.

Lisa Schwarzbaum from Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B -, saying: " Against many odds, Ever After comes up with a good one.

" A common campaign slogan was, " Me for Ma, and I Ain't Got a Durned Thing Against Pa ." Against the odds, Ma Ferguson was elected governor, becoming the first female chief executive of Texas.

Against all odds, the surprising sequence of events has put them on a precise course heading toward Mars.

The critic of The Nation who had consistently praised Copeau's efforts wrote: " The Vieux-Colombier has not only afforded New York a continually varied feast of inspiration and refreshment but it has set for us a new and practicable standard by which American dramatic art may be tested " Against all odds, a French-language theatre had presented a repertoire of plays of considerable taste during a two-season stint in a city enthralled with Broadway.

Against very long odds the 101st held successfully with dwindling supplies, once famously telling the German commander " Nuts " in response to a surrender request.

* Against the odds the blowins bed down 2010

Against these odds Remorse rose to the challenge and established itself as what is now the longest operating organization of ASCII artists in history.

Against the odds Ipswich beat their illustrious counterparts by a goal to nil at home and held Real to a goalless draw at the Bernabéu in front of 80, 000 fanatical supporters.

Against overwhelming odds, the Viet Cong achieved their first major victory.

Against overwhelming odds, several times Williams led his PBRs against concentrations of enemy junks and sampans.

Against all odds, with repeated lapses into alcoholism and deep depressions, he began a new career as an author and translator.

Against all odds, Plymouth outmuscled and outclassed the hosts on the way to a historic 65-74 victory, just three years after making the jump from the EBL.

* " Against all odds ", Yukiyasu Togo & William Wartman, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993, ISBN 0-312-09733-6, p56 / 73

Scourby began working in radio in 1939 and by the early 1940s he was playing running parts in five of the serial melodramas, popularly known as soap operas, including Against the Storm, in which he replaced Arnold Moss for two years.

Against Seebohm formidable foes have taken the field, notably F. W. Maitland, whose Domesday Book And Beyond was written expressly for this purpose, and Sir Paul Vinogradoff whose The Growth Of The Manor had a similar aim.

The earlier date, 293, is sometimes assigned and apparently supported by the authority of a " Coptic Fragment " ( published by Dr. O. von Lemm among the Mémoires de l ' académie impériale des sciences de S. Péterbourg, 1888 ) and corroborated by the maturity revealed in his two earliest treatises Contra Gentes ( Against the Heathens ) and De Incarnatione ( On the Incarnation ), which were admittedly written about the year 318 before Arianism had begun to make itself felt, as those writings do not show an awareness of Arianism.

Jerome referred to marriage prohibition for priests when he argued in Against Jovinianus that Peter and the other apostles had been married before they were called, but subsequently gave up their marital relations.

In 2006 the BBC documentary The Plot Against Harold Wilson alleged that there had been another plot involving Mountbatten to oust Wilson during his second term in office ( 1974 – 76 ).

The purpose of " Against Heresies " was to refute the teachings of various Gnostic groups ; apparently, several Greek merchants had begun an oratorial campaign in Irenaeus ' bishopric, teaching that the material world was the accidental creation of an evil god, from which we are to escape by the pursuit of gnosis.

Against the protests of the two women who had called 911, who recognized him from the neighborhood and insisted that he was a child and couldn't speak English, the officers turned him over to Dahmer.

A new political party, the People's Party, had formed to try to block the change but was unsuccessful as was the People Against Switching Sides protest group which launched a last minute legal challenge against the decision.

The title is never revealed in the novel, but at Oscar Wilde's trial he admitted that he had ' had in mind ' Joris-Karl Huysmans's À Rebours (' Against Nature ').

Against the objections of the Scots, he agreed to hear appeals on cases ruled on by the court of guardians that had governed Scotland during the interregnum.

This case occurred nine years before the United Nations Convention Against Torture came into force and had an influence on thinking about what constitutes torture ever since.

Though Geffen had been substantially a pop-rock label, its absorption of MCA ( and its back catalogues ) led to a more diverse roster ; with former MCA artists such as Mary J. Blige, The Roots, Blink-182, Rise Against, and Common now featured on the label.

Against this hypothesis stands the fact that when the brown rat had become common in this country, it was unknown in Norway, although there was a small animal like a rat, but really a lemming, which made its home there.

However, in the late 3rd century Porphyry, an anti-Christian Neoplatonic philosopher, claimed in his treatise Against the Christians that the miracles of Jesus were not unique, and mentioned Apollonius as a non-Christian who had accomplished similar achievements.

Negotiations with England then began, from which Knox was excluded ; in particular his earlier tract The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, although it had been aimed at Mary Tudor, rendered him unacceptable to the female English monarch.

Oedipus and Jocasta had four children: two sons, Eteocles and Polynices ( see Seven Against Thebes ), and two daughters, Antigone and Ismene.

On April 8, 1994, Babes in Toyland played a benefit show for Rock Against Domestic Violence with 7 Year Bitch, and Jack Off Jill in Miami at the Cameo Theater, the same day lead-singer of American grunge rock band Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, had been found dead in his Seattle home.

Against her husband's wishes, Ellen had read the book he found.

In Homer's Iliad, Thersander was one of the Epigoni, who attacked the city of Thebes in retaliation for the deaths of their fathers, the Seven Against Thebes, who had attempted the same thing.

These were Lily Tomlin, a gay actress and comedian ; Peter Tatchell, a world-renowned gay rights campaigner ; Don Baxter, Executive Director of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations at that time ; Bev Lange, Chief Executive Officer of the Bobby Goldsmith Foundation at the time, a former President of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and a former co-chair of the Sydney Gay Games ; Lex Watson and Sue Wills, Campaign Against Moral Prosecution's ( CAMP ) first Co-Presidents ; and Hannah Williams and Savannah Supski, who had recently protested against the ban against same-sex couples at Hannah's Melbourne school formal.

Against Maurice's complaints, the States General under Johan van Oldenbarneveldt had ordered Maurice to take the army, march south along the coast and take the pirate nest of Dunkirk.

Each ballot had " For incorporation " and " Against incorporation " printed on them.

Many of the musicians featured, for example Rob Zombie, Rage Against the Machine and Marilyn Manson, had also appeared on the soundtrack for The Matrix.

Talking about his former musical venture three months before he left S Club 7, Cattermole described the band — who had been called Skua — as having a " Limp Bizkit vibe " as well as comparing their style to Rage Against The Machine.