Sentence examples for for big stakes from inspiring English sources
"Obviously we theorists working on supersymmetry are playing for big stakes.
You have to be realistic: if you are playing for big stakes, very possibly you're not going to win".
Lukas — "D-Wayne-Off-The-Plane" was one of his nicknames — was among the first trainers to fly horses all over the country for big stakes races, giving his owners an adventure as well as a way to maximize profits.
In our own cinematic season of box-office spectacle, in which a new gargantuan fantasy shows up each week or two to slug it out with the reigning champ, it's worth remembering that these big movies play for big stakes (defending the city, saving humanity, sounding chthonic mysteries) — the sort of cosmic musings that vibrate almost silently through the psyches of everyday people.
Doubtless there's no physical violence involved in Swanberg's negotiations with studios and agents and financiers, but he (like anyone in the business) has entered a realm where tough-minded, ambitious, and demanding people accustomed to big gambles for big stakes can take the pressure and exert as much in return.
"We are playing for big stakes here, we are playing for a home quarter-final, we are playing to qualify.
The United States produces an abundance of fast swimmers, and many American coaches say that the U.S. Trials are the most competitive swim meet in the world — tougher than the Olympic Games, in terms of over-all pressure from the talented, and, in a way, contested for bigger stakes.
The United States produces an abundance of fast swimmers, and many American coaches say that the U.S. Trials are the most competitive swim meet in the world tougher than the Olympic Games, in terms of over-all pressure from the talented, and, in a way, contested for bigger stakes.
I should have taken more scientific risks, gone for bigger stakes, and thought harder about direction.
At GE's NBC unit, six Web-savvy dealmakers have quit in the past six months, bound for bigger stakes in cyberspace.
