Sentence examples for stake plays from inspiring English sources

This stake plays a crucial role at AIG in both compensation and control.The owner of the block is recorded as Starr International, a private company named after Cornelius Vander Starr, who in 1919 founded the group in Shanghai.

Given that so much is at stake, play-off finals are contested surprisingly fairly.

Because when players, knowing what is at stake, play this miserably, either the players have no talent, or they are not responding to the head coach.

On a recent Wednesday, a sparse crowd watched the Knicks' game on cinema-size screens (the soon-to-be Brooklyn Nets, of which Jay-Z owns a modest stake, played on smaller ones).

These are high-stakes plays, and graphically rendered deaths underscore that in a way that a stage production can't".

"This pushes for more high-stakes plays," Romer said in a recent telephone interview, suggesting that N.F.L. coaches might also want to attempt onside kicks more frequently and call for more deep passing routes.

It was certainly a high-stakes play.

No such demanding stakes play out in Mr. Galgut's considerably laxer morality tale.

JAMES SUROWIECKI: I also think that the desire to let early investors in the company and employees cash out some of their stakes played a big role.

The "spoiler", when it finally comes, involves the high-risk, high-stakes playing off of one newspaper against another, with various casualties left lying around the newsroom.

He painted a stark picture of the stakes, playing off black voters' loyalty.