Sentence examples for besides gamble from inspiring English sources

"When celebrities are deciding where they want to go gambling, they usually stick to places which are upscale and where there are other things to do besides gamble," says Frank Fahernkopf, president and CEO of the American Gaming Association.

As the director of marketing at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, Kevin Bagger helps oversee a survey of 3,600 visitors over a calendar year to determine what the average person spends on everything besides gambling, including restaurants, bars, souvenirs and rental cars.

The push to draw more visitors largely relies on publicizing reasons to visit besides gambling — some DO AC advertisements do not even feature casinos — and making the city cleaner and safer.

Apart from the pile of money he will make in bookshops from coming clean, consider Mr Rose's sorry record: besides gambling illicitly on games, and lying about it for 14 years, he spent five months in jail, in 1990, for false statements on a tax return.So what now of his hopes of the Baseball Hall of Fame?

Try Las Vegas, the desert oasis that has gone from cow town to Sin City and is now being transformed into what its boosters call an "entertainment destination" where besides gambling, this year's 36.7 million visitors can stroll down a faux French boulevard or take a gondola ride on an ersatz Venetian canal.

What, besides satisfying a gambling urge, can sector funds do for you?

"Las Vegas was the new thing," he said, "besides making money and making doughnuts," Ngoy's wife hated his gambling.

The thinking is that with a strong foursome besides Cone, the Yankees could make a small financial gamble that Cone's poor performance last season was an aberration.

"We gamble to gamble.

A gamble.

It was a gamble.