Sentence examples for gamble not only from inspiring English sources

But just going would be a fantastic gamble, not only with America's global power and prestige but also with other people's lives.

A general manager must gamble, not only trying to make his team better, but also trying to prevent other teams from improving.

This would be a big gamble: not only would it involve changing the law and holding a referendum, but also it would further deter travel to Atlantic City.It is also not clear that more casinos would help.

He's so charged up with bravado, with his new haircut and his Salesman of the Year Award, that he's prepared to gamble not only with his life, but the lives of three strangers – and Linda – just to force Malvo to admit that they know each other.

He gambled not only his fortune but, with it, the "health of the national economy," and "the only thing more remarkable than his recklessness was his success".

(As Suen wrote to Adelson, the Communists had banned gambling not only because it was against party principles but because "it has been a curse to my people way back in history like opium. It destroyed thousands of families from the bad old days to now").

It must shore up its market position in gambling, not only against Las Vegas but against more local poaching: the giant Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun casinos in Connecticut, slot machines at Delaware race tracks and the threat of a new casino in Monticello, N.Y.

When Sir Richard Branson gambles, he not only tends to bet with the house, he also very often is the house.

These other forms of gambling are not only explicitly allowed by the state, they are, rather bizarrely, exempted by the state constitution.

A government study in 2004 found that the prevalence of gambling was not only declining but also lower than in many other countries.

But "Tron" marks one of its biggest movie gambles ever, not only because of its huge production and marketing cost (an estimated $150 million globally) but because Disney has moved forward with spinoffs -- "Tron: Uprising," an ambitious animated series for Disney Channel and Disney XD, is already deep in production -- without waiting to see how the film is received.