Sentence examples for gamble for high stakes from inspiring English sources

That amounts to a gamble for high stakes.

He placed in command Col. Benedict Arnold, an ambitious, opportunistic entrepreneur in military as well as in civilian life and a daring, imaginative strategist and inspiring leader of men who never hesitated to gamble for high stakes.

The period when Murdoch flung himself into the battle against BSB demonstrated the force of his concentrated energy and his relish in gambling for high stakes.

The man is a mass of contradictions: a teetotaler who gambles for high stakes; a womaniser who dotes on his 34-year-old second wife, Candy; a champion of the poor who lives like a king.

Louis XIV, ignoring the 1674 contract's article banning Marguerite Louise from stepping foot outside the convent, allowed the Grand Duchess to court, where she gambled for high stakes.

Although the contract, too, banned her from leaving the convent, Marguerite Louise often went to her cousin Louis XIV's court at Versailles, where she gambled for high stakes.

The truth is that migration is more often a gamble played for high stakes; a decision only vindicated if the gambler reaches a situation better than that they left behind.

It was immensely popular in medieval Europe and was played for high stakes in English gambling rooms.

The gradual relaxation of church opposition to card playing, but not to gambling, stimulated acceptance of auction bridge, a game most often played without stakes and never for high stakes in the sense that gambling games are.

"The time has come to give local communities the right to pull the plug on these machines - the right to decide if they want their high streets to be the place for high stakes, high speed, high cost gambling".

Here the gambling was for higher stakes, the courtesans more skilful and obliging, than anywhere else on the continent.