Sentence examples for clever gamble from inspiring English sources

In Washington, the attempt to capture Snowden by forcing down Morales's plane may have been seen as nothing more than a clever gamble.

The return of Game of Thrones, back for a fourth season of sword fighting, bed hopping and mud flinging, reminds us once again what a clever gamble HBO took in squeezing this massive production through our TV and laptop screens.

Its clever, but risky, gamble is a textbook case of entrepreneurial pluck.

Even slot machines, the least clever form of gambling, increasingly rely on new software.Many still dislike the idea of governments encouraging citizens to gamble.

Playing at the same time as many other people offered a pleasurable social aspect, for example, and clever game designers also began to incorporate sporadic rewards to entice gamers to engage in excessive play, much like gambling.

If you feel guilty about money, gambling is a clever way to unburden yourself: it enables you to give your money to strangers who deserve it even less than you do, without earning any moral credit for the gift.

Gambling away his savings, Grant – a "clever bloke" who thinks he can only be happy in English exile – becomes trapped among the kind of chauvinistic, philistine drunkards he affects to despise, yet slowly he begins to emulate them.

Clever and well connected, Mr Wolfowitz seemed an interesting gamble when he was appointed; but he became an isolated and ineffective leader long before the recent scandal emerged (see article).

Bond, with his propensity for gambling and fast cars, became the prototype of the handsome, clever playboy-hero of the late 1950s and '60s.

You see, gambling is actually illegal in all of Japan and Pachinko circumvents the law in a clever way.

Fortunately, both companies offer clever ways to transfer your video onto standard blank DVDs without losing its high-defness — and without having to gamble on a Blu-ray or HD-DVD burner.