Sentence examples for gambling on whether from inspiring English sources

"If I were gambling on whether to put in a high-stakes system or not, I would put one in," said Martin Carnoy, the Stanford University professor who co-wrote one of the studies.

The Trafalgar situation, though, is a new one on me: inviting theatregoers to play a sort of Atwell roulette with prices between £24.50 and £65, gambling on whether the main star will appear.

The jungle airstrip, for instance, from which Barry must depart with his precious cargo is stomach-heavingly short, and we glimpse the graves of pilots who have come to grief; during Barry's maiden effort to take off, shredding the treetops as he goes, the camera picks out Escobar and his pals, beside the runway, happily gambling on whether their latest recruit will make it or die.

"The studio is a platform for us to build on all these ideas, whether they're going to be profitable or not, rather than trying to have a startup model of building some wacky ideas and gambling on whether they're going to end up being something big," Kronick said.

"If it's something that's too uncomfortable, I find it's easier for me to put that into a game instead of gambling on whether or not someone is going to be like, 'Oh this isn't dinner conversation'".

It may be coming soon in the form of David Cameron's gamble on whether Britain stays in the EU.

The purchase was made after a year of research, but the museum acknowledges that it has taken a gamble on whether it is Greek or Roman.

On our first night, we lay in our bedroom next to the stage, now also operating as an extra speaker, and gambled on whether the DJ would say 'par-dee' or 'Bar-ba-dose' first.

But it's a gamble on whether people will bash that button too often.

That's because banks can also make bets on sovereign debt -- a literal gamble on whether a nation will default on what it owes.

In its simplest form, a participant is required to detect whether an arbitrary stimulus is present or not and then, in a second stage, gamble on whether his/her response was correct or not.