"I know how heavy the odds against that are," she told him.

He has shown brilliant leadership and dash against heavy odds.

Tarzan saw them coming toward him and realized that three to one are heavy odds.

His mother, a talented lady, had therefore to struggle hard against heavy odds to provide her sons with the best possible education.

He is also running for re-election in October, against heavy odds.

They would be fighting against heavy odds, even with their new and now proven weapons.

But apart from the heavy odds, he finally agreed the plan was for the moment the only possibility.

After 13 years of official indifference, and against heavy odds, Congress has acted to clean the nation's air.

X stared at the page for several minutes, trying, against heavy odds, not to be taken in.

This is a land where different and sometimes conflicting traditions continue to matter despite heavy odds.