Sentence examples for raising stakes from inspiring English sources

Land and construction prices began to soar, raising stakes for anyone undertaking a big residential or commercial project.

The architecture Mr. Crabb teaches — setup, inciting incident, raising stakes — is closer to the map of a screenplay than of a stand-up bit, or sketch or improv scene.

A Malaysia Airlines jet was shot down by a surface-to-air missile Thursday over separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine, apparently killing all 298 people on board and dramatically raising stakes in the conflict with the Kremlin-backed forces.

A18 Raising Stakes on Drug Benefit Democrats said they would seek more than twice as much money as President Bush for prescription drug benefits for Medicare recipients.

Big countries may think it about time, too.In this section Recommissioning Europe Remembrance of Jewish times past Bruno Mégret, France's far-right schemer All hands off Estonia's deck Raising stakes A little goes a long way The whiff of something fishy Green about the ears, not the policy The crown estate Reprints Related items Recommissioning EuropeJan 28th 1999.

Russian incursion into Turkish airspace raises stakes in what is already a high risk situation.

Abu Dhabi, BCCI's majority shareholder, pumps in $600m, raises stake to 77.4%.

Active shareholders: raised stake in Harnischfeger Industries, promptly raised questions about corporate governance.

Donald Trump keeps raising the stakes.

But Chabon's actually raising the stakes.

Simply raising the stakes had no effect.