Sentence examples for historic stakes from inspiring English sources

Also in Rendezvous, Niki Kitsantonis in Athens replies to readers' questions about the "historic stakes" involved.

With those historic stakes in mind, you sent us your questions about Sunday's elections and about Greece as a society and a polity.

Shortly after her arrival, Scardino tidied up Pearson's conglomerate structure, for example selling off its historic stakes in investment bank Lazard, and focused the business on education and publishing.

With New York and Philadelphia so close, the rivalry so historic and the stakes so great, the circumstances may portend unruly behavior with about 80,000 people confined in close quarters to watch an inherently violent competition for three hours.

In 2008 the stakes were historic.

The bay colt who in June became the first horse in 37 years to capture thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown will run in Saturday's Travers Stakes at historic Saratoga Race Course.

In fact, there is another useful myth that animated the Camp David peace process: that only the governments of Mr. Barak and Mr. Arafat in their current configurations can make this peace and so a historic opportunity is at stake.

Just hours before the polls opened, the candidates in Minnesota's strange, shortened Senate race met for the first time this morning in an hourlong debate at the historic Fitzgerald Theater here, staking out distinct positions on abortion, taxes, war against Iraq, prescription drug benefits and education.

It has divested a number of its landmark deals — including a portion of its historic and lucrative Alibaba stake, and the majority holding in $10 billion game developer SuperCell — in order to manage debt, much of which comes from its ownership of U.S. carrier Sprint.

Trained capitalists of sorts - like historic merchant privateers who staked out profitable trade routes.

Now's the time to make sure that the American people understand the stakes and the historic significance of what we're doing.