Sentence examples for in which gambling from inspiring English sources

Taylor cited at least nine instances in which gambling took place on Vick's property in Surry, Va., or in which Vick was one of the sponsors for a dog in a fight in which a purse was won.

And though the title of her book, "Hats and Eyeglasses," is an old gambling expression for a dreadful run at the table, Ms. Frankel's childhood memories are happy ones, in which gambling equaled friendship equaled food equaled laughter equaled love.

"There was an attitude in Galveston in which gambling, prostitution and illegal bars were overlooked by the police and state officials," A. R. Schwartz, a former assistant county attorney and state senator, said on Monday, "and it's being very generous to say 'overlooked.' " James P. Simpson was not willing to overlook.

We shift the focus onto the spatial contexts, the rooms and the venues, in which gambling machines are positioned.

A curious thing about gambling in America is that it is extremely popular, yet has a bad reputation and I don't mean the unsavory way in which gambling licenses are awarded, as described in the preceding story (p. 82).

By examining a series of common layouts we identify the division of venues into two main areas: one for the main social activities of the venue (the "main hall") and the other a partitioned area (the "annex") in which gambling machines are tightly clumped in ways that discourage social interaction.

In these age groups, decisions were predicted by a model in which gambles with high risk were preferentially chosen over gambles with low risk.

At all ages, decisions were predicted by a model in which gambles with high EV were preferentially chosen over gambles with low EV, a result consistent with previous studies (see Boyer, 2006, for review).

The problem is that the EVP requires a single index of value in accordance with which gambles can be compared, whereas Golding's contention that the value of the good relationship with God is different in kind from other values seems to suggest the incommensurability of two different indices.

Extension Software is a family-owned software company that licenses software to businesses located in countries in which sports gambling is legal.

In the present study, participants aged 9 35 years engaged in a probabilistic gambling task (Camille et al., 2004; Coricelli et al., 2005) in which paired gambles differed in EV, in risk, and in the potential to generate counterfactually mediated emotions (relief and regret).