Sentence examples for gamble as a from inspiring English sources

After working for two years at consumer products company Procter & Gamble as a product manager, he attended the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

The stock market clearly took his gamble as a positive sign: Revlon's shares traded up $1.20 each, to $6.15 a share, after the news was disclosed on Thursday.

If the cousins wished to gamble as a team, pooling their stake and sharing their winnings, they ought to have agreed to that before they began playing, not after one of them wins.

But now officials also worry about how Britain might profit from their work (there is talk of selling British weather-forecasting kit to typhoon-lashed Asian nations).Britain goes it aloneAll this effort is as much a gamble as a plan.

Dr. Marc N. Potenza, the lead researcher, speculated that the different choices of games reflected a possible difference in motivation: that women might gamble "as a means of escape from distressing problems," while men might "more often seek ego enhancement through the thrill of competitive risk-taking".

In the classic gain/loss framing effect, describing a gamble as a potential gain or loss biases people to make risk-averse or risk-seeking decisions, respectively.

"Investors saw it as a big gamble, as did I," she said.

And "equal pay," taken in the literal sense, could be a gamble as well.

It is not just a publishing gamble but a political gamble as well.

McCain is a lifelong gambler - gambling as often as once a month, according to the Times.

It's certainly a gamble, as Peter Daykin, a member of the Football Supporters' Federation board, has seen at first hand.