Sentence examples for gambling centre from inspiring English sources

Owen Baily, a reformed gambling addict who now runs the Gambling Centre, which helps combat addiction, said the "machines suck money out of communities, families and their children.

Macau, the gambling centre of China, has overtaken Switzerland as the world's fourth richest territory per person according to figures from the World Bank.

Many visitors to Monaco alternate their hours between its beaches and boating facilities, its international sports-car races, and its world-famous Place du Casino, the gambling centre in the Monte-Carlo section that made Monte-Carlo an international byword for the extravagant display and reckless dispersal of wealth.

Macau has overtaken Las Vegas in recent years to become the world's biggest gambling centre.In this section Politics this week Business this week KAL's cartoon ReprintsPakistan's Supreme Court rekindled its quarrel with the government, condemning its reluctance to help revive a corruption case against Asif Ali Zardari, the president.

Alas, America – known the world over for possibly the bigest gambling centre in the world, Las Vegas – has yet to get over its rather one-eyed view of gambling nationally.

• There could be a move to stop betting taxes leaking through the Internet and offshore gambling centres.

Sixteen smaller gambling centres will go ahead subject to parliamentary approval, Burnham said, explaining that he was "satisfied they do not pose the same level of risk to the public".

The world's gambling centres are no longer just Vegas, Macau and Monaco; they now also include Alderney, Gibraltar, Antigua and Malta, whose favourable tax systems make them irresistible homes for internet-based companies.Thanks to these companies the old restrictions have started to crumble.

And according to Elaine Smethurst at the Gordon Moody Association, the gambling therapy centre, many of her clients "started gambling at a very young age".

The effect of placing gambling at the centre of our nation's domestic life, of presenting it as a normal leisure activity which actually benefits society, could not be clearer.

Luke Clark, who left Cambridge University last September to head the University of British Columbia's centre for gambling research in Canada, said: "Behaviour addictions have a distinguishing feature … in the case of gambling the pattern is that addicts all report debts – debts which interfere with their day-to-day functioning".