21.   Defying awesome odds, the collaboration is solidly successful.

22.   Defying odds, the storm that struck this city Tuesday night caused one death and one injury from hail.

23.   Defying the odds, he left it on even after Ordonez had taken two strikes.

24.   Defying the odds, she achieved a successful pregnancy on her first try at in vitro fertilization.

25.   Defying enormous odds, Doyle survived eight hours in surgery.

26.   Exactly one year and two days after the great Petyon Manning played his final game for Tennessee, the Volunteers defied all odds and won the national title.

27.   Ever since he picked up a baseball with the only hand he was born with, Abbott has defied all odds in becoming a major league pitcher.

28.   Favre has spent a lifetime defying odds and battling adversity.

29.   Florida defied the odds.

30.   For three quarters, the Nets defied the odds.