Sentence examples for are being staked from inspiring English sources

Positions are being staked out.

Now, with both liberals and conservatives girding for a cultural Armageddon over gay marriage and gay rights, the battle lines are being staked out not just in the courts and legislatures, but also in places like this.

B4 TABLOID TURNABOUT -- Supermarket tabloid journalists, some of whom were in the habit of jumping out of the bushes at celebrity weddings, are being staked out by reporters at their homes, offices and the funeral of a colleague who died from an anthrax infection.

He was unaware that the liquor store in question was being staked out by local police.

For his next book, he's been staking out the Internet underworld.

In recent months he's been staking out somewhat heterodox stands, at least in the context of the conservative movement.

But lately I've realized the stakes are being raised.

Purdy understood he was "being burned at the stake".

Purdy understood he was "being burned at the stake". .

Anyway, this is, is Spoon sings, "Small Stakes".

Once again, it's careers that are at stake here.