Sentence examples for percentage game from inspiring English sources

They played a percentage game and put the ball in our end.

Smugglers took drugs and migrants around the edges and just ran north, playing the percentage game.

Eschewing all nuance or subtlety, they played a percentage game based on obliterating the opposition by pounding them with relentless brutal, high-impact assaults until they were simply worn down.

Exuding the spirit of gamblers rather than statesmen, the decision-makers played "the percentage game", counting whatever could be counted and ignoring the rest, or the underlying problems, with "an utterly irrational confidence in the calculability of reality".

As a result they will often take fewer risks now, refuse to engage in "a duel" they might lose, tread a comfortable line in passing, and literally play a percentage game.

But you're playing a percentage game, because to be first with news (as rolling TV channels have found occasionally to their cost) requires you to be cavalier with the process of checking your facts.

"Thats no disrespect to anyone who has played for us before, but I think the influence and the winning percentage games that he has been able to play, for the longevity.

Her high-percentage game extracted 51 unforced errors from Sánchez Lorenzo while she committed just 17. Zvonareva said her technique has improved with her confidence.

Li plays a sort of low-risk, high-percentage game that will, again, test Robson's concentration, which has been known to wander at times during her brief career.

Vigneault has familiarity with the Kings after coaching in Vancouver from 2006-13, and said he expects the Kings to play a "hard, high-percentage game with and without the puck, in all three zones.

Also, given d2 retention usually doesn't optimize beyond single-digit percentages, games with low retention rates are culled very quickly.