Sentence examples for gamble since from inspiring English sources

In interviews, they acknowledged that calling her to the stand had been a gamble, since they had never interviewed her and were uncertain about what she would say.

NS&I's fixed rate bonds are a bit of a gamble since they can and do get caught out by movements in interest rates.

Some of Villaraigosa's political advisers agreed, telling him that it was an unwise political gamble, since he was unlikely to achieve results, and certainly not before his anticipated run for governor in 2010.

And, of course, the project is an expensive gamble since it may turn out that the virus mutates so quickly or so slowly that it is impossible to trace its path.

It's a decent gamble, since TiVO aside, there aren't many independent PVR manufacturers and the MVPDs can easily switch out set-top boxes with built-in PVRs for ones without them, leaving viewers with no option other than VOD.

Thus, by allowing North Koreans a tiny glimpse into the lives of their more affluent relatives in the South, Kim Jong Il is taking perhaps the biggest gamble since his father's death in 1994.

He has not gambled since.

Prosecutors had been investigating offshore sports gambling since 1997, and BetOnSports since 2001.

There've been songs about gambling since cavemen first found themselves feeling wreckless with too much time on their hands.

He was then in his early 30s, and had been gambling since he was 10 or so, starting out as a card player.

But a few deceptively prim-looking machines represent an even greater technological leap, the biggest advance in automated gambling since Charles Fey introduced the one-armed bandit in 1895.