at odds

How To Use at odds In A Sentence

• Supporting fast-growing businesses is at odds with improving productivity, academics warn. Times, Sunday Times
• Burton's flair for image seems always at odds with the story at hand.
• Republican manliness is not at odds with such unguarded displays of affect, for the "loftiness" and Love and Merit in the Maritime Historical Novel: Cooper and Scott
• It is understandable to feel overwhelmed in social situations - a convivial atmosphere is so at odds with how you feel. Times, Sunday Times
• The outcomes are such that people repatriate with their family when they've formerly been at odds with them.
• Daily, books come by the cartload to Ms. Klausner's Atlanta home, putting her at odds with the mailman, the UPS delivery guy and her husband, Stan, a business analyst for the Army.
• The whole idea of the proposed redevelopment of the centre is farcical, unnecessary and at odds with what many people really want.
• The two Pacific giants remain at odds on many security issues but both want to avoid a crisis on the Korean peninsula. Times, Sunday Times
• Investors may find that their money is funding activities at odds with their values, with significant tracker investments in sectors such as tobacco and fossil fuels. Times, Sunday Times
• An adviser said there was no reason why the two countries should remain at odds.