Sentence examples for informed gamble from inspiring English sources

The selectors are gambling but it is an informed gamble.

Beefing up its grocery delivery service is an "informed gamble" for Walmart, Mr. Knemeyer said — one that will most likely serve up side benefits such as data collection and inroads with young, affluent city dwellers.

Everton will always scan news reports on a prospective signing and speak to their contacts for character references – some clubs will trawl through a player's Twitter feed and Facebook page – but ultimately the final decision is always an informed gamble.

Sometimes, an informed gamble pays off.

Ultimately, it's an informed gamble whether a dream college will turn out to be the stuff of nightmares.

The buyer is effectively taking a gamble, informed by mortality rates, on the original policyholder dying soon enough for the buyer to make money out of the deal, once the purchase price and premiums have been set against the payout.

It is an ill-informed gamble with one of the great places of Britain.

On Wednesday, the Nets informed players that gambling was no longer permitted on team flights.

"Members of the board were determined not to again gamble on a Broadway production, and were not informed that they were gambling with the Public Theater's budget to produce these plays," said someone close to the Public.

When he informed the warden of all the gambling that was taking place within his Pensacola prison camp, Donaghy heard "rumblings about physical retaliation".

A potential explanation of this last observation is that subjects prefer to gamble on tasks on which they are informed about their performance, due to a value-of-information effect.