Sentence examples for rising stakes from inspiring English sources
These rising stakes are behind the state's push for better test security, as is an acknowledgment by state officials that they have not done enough to detect or prevent cheating.
In outlining the recommendations, John B. King Jr., the state education commissioner, and Valerie Grey, the executive deputy commissioner, wrote in a memorandum to the Board of Regents that not enough was being done to detect and deter cheating by teachers and principals, given the rising stakes of tests.
This analysis, in August, about Chinese activists being arrested by the Japanese Coast Guard for planting flags on one of the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, was just one of many seeking to explain a host of Asian territorial disputes, and the rising stakes.
Their rising stake in democratic politics could tame them further.This is what General Musharraf counts on when he declares that Pakistan will remain a key member of the coalition against terror.
The Manchester-based international operator took a rising stake in Spartech, a US thermoplastics business that seemed to be expanding continuously until this week, when it warned of a slowdown caused by the high oil price.
In a sign of the rising political stakes, Mr. Bush is scheduled to speak about the budget outlook in Missouri on Tuesday.
"Rising strategic stakes have heightened the regional and wider international competition," she wrote in a new assessment.
But the new 69-page study, by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, shows that, rather than rising, the stake of index funds in the oil market actually declined in the first half of this year.
Then, as the number of drunken driving deaths across the country continued to rise, the stakes for coverage got even higher.
As U.S. government officials continue to pressure China to allow the value of its currency to rise, the stakes of the debate may have become overblown.
With the stakes rising on both sides, the methodical pace thus far may have been the easy part.
