Sentence examples for high-stakes play from inspiring English sources

It was certainly a high-stakes play.

And yet, last night there they were, all six umpires huddled on the infield, openly debating a very high-stakes play.

Walker and Jindal mounted sharp attacks on the Republican congressional leadership, who, they warned, are on the verge of backing down in a high-stakes play on Capitol Hill to block immigration reform.

These are high-stakes plays, and graphically rendered deaths underscore that in a way that a stage production can't".

The "spoiler", when it finally comes, involves the high-risk, high-stakes playing off of one newspaper against another, with various casualties left lying around the newsroom.

"This pushes for more high-stakes plays," Romer said in a recent telephone interview, suggesting that N.F.L. coaches might also want to attempt onside kicks more frequently and call for more deep passing routes.

It was called The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal and the High Stakes Played Inside Lehman Brothers, and it chronicled, among other things, the lazy, unethical, risky banking practices that had put the entire country at risk in 2008.

It promised another exciting round of high-stakes power-play and mortal combat, but now that we've come to expect the unexpected, can this show still shock like it used to?

Given the significant role high-stakes testing plays, it is important to examine how tests function and what they really measures.

Vicky Ward is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and the author the New York Times Bestseller: The Devil's Casino, Friendship, Betrayal and the High-Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers (John F. Wiley & Sons).

The cheating scandal in Atlanta -- and others around the country -- sparked a vitriolic debate in the Washington Post over the role high-stakes testing plays in pressuring teachers to amend their students' answer sheets.