Sentence examples for much to stake from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, the preseason conference favorites have not done much to stake their claim to a conference title.

While neither Finlen nor Ray did much to stake a claim to the job as Pennington's backup, they did not take themselves out of the running.

None of the players Wenger drafted in did much to stake a claim for a first-team place.

In Manchester Ed Miliband did much to stake his claim to be a serious contender for the top job.

Lancaster, the interim coach, is expected to be interviewed for the full-time job this week and he could not have done much more to stake his case.

Again, a question hinging on how much belief to stake on the new Iranian president.

We have too much at stake to not to get this right.

"This enterprise is too big and there's too much at stake to leave it to genes alone," Mr. Haas said in the interview.

We have too much at stake to allow McCain-Palin-Lieberman to lead our children to war, destroy our national resources, and debunk science.

Palin as mom symbol is important to discuss, but there's too much at stake to get lost again in the gender wars, no matter how validating it feels to have our opinions asked.

Craig Johnson, a technical market strategist at Piper Jaffray, said lawmakers realized that there was too much at stake to allow the deadline to pass.