So long as these issues remain muddy, Labour may be gambling in emphasising the deficit.
Mr. Hirst may be gambling with the current sale, but he has concentrated for months on marketing.
The Christie campaign may be gambling that Ms. Guadagno will help him with women and others who support abortion rights.
Mr Matolcsy may be gambling once again that there could be one more outing for his unorthodox approach.
The husband and wife who open a sandwich bar opposite a new office block may be gambling their life savings, but they are not innovating.
Mr. Quadros may be gambling on the chance that the Brazilian public, as soon as it becomes aware of this stark choice, will set up an outcry for his return to office.
Since America and Japan are bound to press for sanctions in the event of a nuclear-weapon test, Mr Kim may be gambling that, rather than uniting his neighbours against him, detonating a bomb would instead blow them and America apart again.It is in no one's interests that he be allowed to succeed.
Exxon may be gambling that Iraq's government cannot afford to kick around a firm so crucial to its long-term pans to expand oil production.As these examples show, operating in Iraq is risky even before dealing with a creaking energy infrastructure and parlous security.
I was a fresh new journalist, and needed a nom de guerre; so I confiscated the ancient mariner's discarded one, and have done my best to make it remain what it was in his hands—a sign and symbol and warrant that whatever is found in its company may be gambled on as being the petrified truth; how I have succeeded, it would not be modest in me to say.
But, "academics who champion causes may be gambling with their careers," Audrey Williams June reported last week in an article at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required).
Cardiff City may be gambling their international marketing strategy on red - but a sports finance expert thinks the Championship club are "dreaming" if it will get them into the black.
