Sentence examples for gambling events from inspiring English sources

(Nevada law prohibits broadcasting live gambling events in progress).

Performance contexts include potlatch feasts, initiation rituals, seasonal dance ceremonies, shamanic rituals, and gambling events.

It was on an overcast January day in Cambodia when I saw what must be one of the world's most bizarre and dangerous gambling events: betting on homemade rocket launches.

A new restriction on live animals will keep most of the dog-owning fauxbeauxs away, while also ending the Tavern's popular weekly "chicken drop" gambling event.

The Restoration was effectively completed during the spring of 1660 and, in the general euphoria which both accompanied and followed these historic events, gambling on cricket and other sports was freely pursued.

Another popular gambling draw, Horse racing events are housed by the Fair Meadows Race Track and Will Rogers Downs in nearby Claremore.

There were also reprimands for the British Olympic Association and Olympic Council of Ireland for failing to educate their athletes that they are not allowed to gamble on Olympic events and a reminder to boxing's governing body, AIBA, to check that its rules comply with the IOC's and that it has sufficient education programmes in place.

I've seen retirement funds used to gamble on sporting events.

The president's decision to make a dramatic move on the peace process was long in the coming but unfortunately for Team Obama, they gambled on world events and elections, both at home and abroad, hoping for different results and a more favorable context.

Which is a roundabout way of saying that gambling goes a long way to funding a sport that, in turn, strictly prohibits gambling among its participants, and whose integrity has been brought into serious question lately by events driven by gambling.

EDM may have had its start as a particular genre of music played at improvised raves and some nightclubs, but it has since become a huge business, possibly event overtaking even gambling in Las Vegas in terms of revenues, by some estimates.