Sentence examples similar to a big time gamble from inspiring English sources

"This is a big-time gamble for Microsoft," said Richard Doherty, president of Envisioneering, a research firm in Seaford, N.Y.

Miami John and Ms. Eolis know the downside of big-time gambling, the gut-ripping feeling of losing tens of thousands of dollars in a single game or playing in a game that lasts longer than some people's workweek.

But it sure sounds like you are saying that a bank is safe if it's CEO is a modest guy, even if he likes to gamble big time.

A one-off £2.7bn package for 08-09, financentirelyely by borrowing at a time of economic austerity, is a big government gamble, fiscally and politically.

It has always been a big gamble to buy commercial time during the Super Bowl, a k a the annual midwinter American festival of football and commercialism.

So Witherow candidly admitted that erecting paywalls at the Sunday Times and Times sites was "a big gamble", a necessity forced on them in order to fund the papers' joint editorial budget of £100m a year.

In this gambling town, Hagler turned the fight into a big gamble and won just in time.

You can increase your comfort level with risk slowly and consistently over time--taking small but consistent steps which will eventually lead to bigger gains than a one-time gamble on the risky move paying off.

That is a big political gamble".

There's a big policy gamble.

"It's a big, big gamble they are taking," a South American diplomat said today.