Sentence examples for daring bet from inspiring English sources

At the time this was a daring bet that the efficiencies of a common standard would more than compensate for the inability to charge a premium for hardware.

And in some ways it's a daring bet, in some ways it's a very risky bet to think that these core issues that have been the issues that have defined your career are going to be the decisive issues first in the primary, then in the general election.

Then he took a daring bet to bid for a piece of land in the same area in 2007.

For all of his faults, and they are many, he made a daring bet that paid off.

However, managers who take more daring bets by veering a long way from the index the academic term is having a high "active share"—are able to outperform.

One of its more daring bets, "Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus," for instance, had well under $1 million in domestic ticket sales when it was released in 2006.

Like Hughes, Musk made daring, contrarian bets aimed at reshaping enormous industries.

But remember this about the 74-year-old entrepreneur: He amassed his fortune over the decades by making a series of daring contrarian bets.

In 1950 he became a Broadway immortal with the Tony Award-winninGuysuys and Dolls," his show about gamblers and molls out of Damon Runyon's New York, the plot hinging on a sucker bet: daring a high roller to take a Salvation Army "doll" to Havana, capital of sin, for a one-night stand.

Daring investors are betting on 'frontier markets'.

But Lilly has stubbornly refused to give up, pointing to after-the-fact analyses that seemed to show the drug worked in milder patients and making a daring and very risky bet on doing new large trials.