Sentence examples for an initial stake of from inspiring English sources

Hillary made that sum of nearly a hundred thousand dollars from an initial stake of a thousand dollars.

Instead of reservations, natives set up regional corporations — everyone a shareholder with an initial stake of land and money in what Hensley calls "the most sweeping and fairest Native American land settlement".

In the PC and Dreamcast versions of the game, an initial stake of $2,000 is given, though more is available through loans at a virtual automated teller machine.

The investment came at a time when the fast-food king was planting capital in all sorts of ventures, from an initial stake in Chipotle Mexican Grill in 1997, to a purchase of Boston Market in 2000.

Mr. Thain, a former president of Goldman Sachs, presided over that firm's many investments in electronic trading platforms, including an initial stake in Archipelago.

Lufthansa paid 223 million, including an initial stake purchased from B.M.I.'s founder, Michael Bishop, in 1999.

These types of communities are currently relatively rare, especially for distributed populations who do share an initial stake in its goals.

Mr. Kerkorian paid an average of $6.90 a share for his initial stake of 100 million shares.

While she has said that her initial stake of a thousand dollars was something that she felt her family could afford, she would have had to be risking far, far in excess of that in order to achieve her initial, dazzling return of over five hundred per cent in the first day's trading.

Mr. Sternberg bought his initial stake of the team when it was valued at $145 million.

It cites evidence from elsewhere to suggest an ideal initial stake is around 3-53-5%