Sentence examples for stake in something from inspiring English sources

When people have a personal stake in something, they think about it, care about it, work to make it prosper.

"If you've got a stake in something, you're more likely to take notice of it and make sure it operates as efficiently as it can".

It makes sense, then, that it would take a stake in something like Tango, which has been rapidly growing both its mobile messaging user base and its mobile gaming footprint.

"You don't feel the same stake in something.

If you are disinterested, then you are neutral and you don't have a personal stake in something.

This gives people a stake in society, something they can lose.

The offer is contingent on Portugal's selling its 12.7percentt stake in Cimpor, something the government has said it will not do.

By the time they discuss the situation in the Middle East, both children and adults know they are talking to people who are genuinely interested in their point of view and have a stake in building something positive together". Lichman is frustrated that the project, which is largely funded by private foundations, does not have the capacity to do more work in more schools.

Instead, open-ended solutions create a stake in ownership, something of a first for the series outside of emotional attachment to characters.

There's no longer a financial stake in creating something that will be liked by 30 million people, because no such large group watches TV anymore.

Something is at stake in this satire, something that may be connected to the unhappiness his biographer, Morton N. Cohen, finds in Carroll's life.