Sentence examples for high-stakes playing from inspiring English sources

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.

He is also a brilliant mathematician with transcendent counting skills--but with no taste for high-stakes playing.

For their On the Run II tour, pop's most powerful couple perform the third act of their high-stakes play about faithfulness and disappointment.

Negreanu recommends players pay attention to the particulars of how each tournament is run rather than adopting a one-size-fits-all approach to high-stakes play.

It was certainly a high-stakes play.

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

"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.

These poker players, who have vast experience with high-stakes randomization, play the mixed strategy equilibrium in these games roughly as often as our student subjects.

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.