But Pierre Moscovici, the EU's economics commissioner, sounded a note of encouragement, saying he believed that Mr Samaras's gamble meant he was confident that his man would become president.
Banks hate the Volcker Rule, because less gambling means lower profits and lower bonuses for executives and traders.
Win It All is a story about gambling, and gambling means a lot to me.
Professional sports think that gambling means that their games will not be decided on the merits, that fixers will invade their enterprises and cause spectators and fans to lose interest in patronizing their entertainment businesses.
The shift from investing to gambling means that not only are investors making very little of their money available to companies to produce goods and services, but also that the parties on one side of every speculative trade now have an interest in seeing the object of the bet fail, whether a company, a movie, a politician, or a country.
When we talk about real-money online gambling, that basically means gambling on the Internet just like you would in an offline casino, for example, betting or depositing real money to win real money, and not just to play for fun or to cash in by means of digital goods or virtual currency.
Residing within 90 minutes of the Monticello Raceway, the proposed site of yet another gambling enterprise, means reducing by almost half the time it takes to get to the action in Atlantic City or in Connecticut.
And these days, gambling often means daily fantasy sports (DFS).
Results indicate that the SG group had significantly less smokers and alcohol users, but a higher degree of severity of gambling: higher means in the SOGS-total score, the DSM-IV [ 28, 26] total criteria, the number of problematic forms of games and the debts associated to gambling.
Money from other forms of gambling would mean bigger purses".
