Sentence examples for double gamble from inspiring English sources

But Mr Osborne is making a double gamble.

The assignment granted to Mr Timmermans thus represents a double gamble.

But the knife-edge 219-212 vote in the House of Representatives on March 21st, which could easily have gone wrong for the Democrats, was only the first half of a double gamble, and the outcome of the second will not be known till November.

On "It Was a Good Day," released a few years after the 1991 riots, captured an L.A. trying to heal by focusing on the positive -- getting drunk (but "no throwing up"), smoking weed, playing basketball (and getting a triple-double), gambling, watching "Yo! MTV Raps," and having sex. .

Tangled up with her struggling partners, the Free Democrats, and her incoherent Free Democrat foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, the chancellor went for a double electoral gamble on the military and ecological fronts — and got both wrong.

Nevada: How easy, the stimulus will be doubled by gambling revenues.

This is a double or quits gamble, which is presumed to have been approved, or even inspired, by the Elysée Palace.

But Djokovic decided to gamble, to double down on his bet and give the wheel one more spin.

Gamble, serving double duty as punt returner, returned the ball to the Purdue 46, helping to set up the winning touchdown.

DOUBLE DOWN: Reflections on Gambling and Loss.

West eventually took a match-point gamble by doubling three hearts.