Sentence examples for increase the stakes from inspiring English sources
Flashbacks seem designed to give psychological explanations and generate sympathy rather than increase the stakes.
"Every time you increase the stakes associated with any testing program, you get more cheating," he said.
They said it would increase the stakes at Guantánamo partly by amplifying the attention internationally to cases that would draw intense attention in any event.
The hardened western stance is set to greatly increase the stakes for Assad, who now faces pariah status among leaders whose attention he had previously coveted.
The western stance is set to greatly increase the stakes for Assad, who now faces pariah status among leaders whose attention he had previously coveted.
Economic development helps, but in societies riven by ethnic divisions, it can simply increase the stakes to be parceled out among the different groups.
If the company's profit starts to grow as expected, they increase the stake to a "crop" position.
The Spanish firm also paid (some say overpaid) €2.7 billion ($3.3 billion) in June this year for a controlling stake in Cesky Telecom, the Czech Republic's biggest phone company (and splashed out again to increase the stake to 69% in September).
In November, NBC purchased a minority equity stake in iVillage, with the option to increase the stake to the same percentage as that of AOLs.
He's talking with two about seed rounds, and a third investor may increase the stake to a Series A round.
