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 it was a small betting feature where people could make pretend wagers about the outcomes of matches that really took off, so Hitpost doubled down on gambling.
DOUBLE DOWN: Reflections on Gambling and Loss.
As with Frederick and Steven Barthelme's disarming gambling memoir, "Double Down" (1999), the chief virtue of "All or Nothing" is its facility in enlightening nonbelievers, showing how this addiction follows recognizable patterns of rush and crash, but with a twist — the buzz is in the process, not the result.
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