Sentence examples for junket from inspiring English sources

But documents obtained by the IRP show that in 2008 one of the Sands casinos in Macau, the Venetian, extended $32m in credit to Cheung's junket company.

For all the warnings about "junket reps", Adelson clearly held them in high regard.

"To the best of my knowledge, he was a minority shareholder in one of the junket rackets," he said.

The casino industry in Macau has for decades used what are known as "junket operators" to bring in high rollers from other parts of China who gambled in "VIP rooms" in return for a substantial cut of the take.

Cheung was the major stakeholder in a junket company called Neptune which began running a VIP room at Sands Macau in 2005, according to Hong Kong court records.

A 2009 Las Vegas Sands document lists the top 10 junket companies in Macau.

The answer seems to be a lot of time spent talking as well as the odd junket.

To attract high-spending VIPs, they have had to rely on the help of "junket" operators—shadowy, independent middlemen who typically take a 30% cut of any revenues.

Political outrage at the junket led other companies to rethink their plans.

Then it turned out that Vladimir Potanin, one of Russia's leading financiers, had also abandoned the junket with Mr Yeltsin to stay close to events in Moscow.

He claims never to have voted for a tax increase, or for an unbalanced budget, or for a congressional pay rise and never to have gone on a congressional junket.