Sentence examples for gambling an from inspiring English sources

For years, leaders of a place once known as the "Magic City" have made all kinds of attempts — a baseball team, gambling, an arts center, grants — to somehow reverse the spiral in Gary, a declining steel town of 80,000.

"It doesn't surprise me that they would be on the road at 5 in the morning," said Marvin Steinberg, executive director of the Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling, an occasional consultant to Foxwoods.

It will offer not only extensive facilities for gambling, an activity dear to Chinese hearts, but also, like Las Vegas, a wide array of top-end dining spots, in a nation where good eating is a national pastime.

NERVOUS casino executives are lobbying to make Internet gambling an illegal activity, concerned that their business will falter if people can stay at home and play on their personal computers.

Also: enactment of an income surtax of 20 percent on great wealth; an added tax on all forms of gambling, including Internet gambling; an excess-profits tax on major oil companies and major financial companies; a 75 percent tax on Wall Street bonuses; a cancellation of farm subsidies; and a 50 percent curtailment in foreign aid.

It takes place in October or November and features worship and ceremonial lights in honour of Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and good fortune; fireworks to commemorate the victory of Krishna over Narakasura, the demon of hell; and gambling, an old ritual custom intended to secure luck for the coming year.

Some tribes consider gambling a vice.

"I gambled a lot," Mr. Carlisle said.

Warren E. Buffett called gambling a "tax on ignorance".

It's more of a gamble, a much bigger risk.

"Gambling is an amenity now".