Sentence examples for stake whether from inspiring English sources

In Bickham's opinion, the war continued after the evaporation of its ostensible causes because a larger issue was at stake: "whether or not the United States would be respected as a sovereign nation".

In Bickham's opinion, the war continued after the evaporation of its ostensible causes because a larger issue was at stake: "whether or not the United States would be respected as a sovereign nation". Bickham writes that Britain "sought to stifle American ambition and turn it into a client state," which implies that Americans confusedly but accurately diagnosed a threat to their interests.

Thus companies have a real stake, whether they like it or not, in helping to create a dynamic and forward-looking regulatory system.

The issue at stake – whether injunctions should be upheld by the courts despite information being published on the internet outside the jurisdiction – will have far-reaching consequences for all future privacy cases.

Europe is where our domestic quality of life is most directly at stake, whether the issue is environmental standards, the fight against organised crime, policy on asylum or stability on the continent.

"Whenever we do play we always have that great rivalry and there's always been something at stake, whether it be for three points in a qualifier or like in 2011 in the Asian Cup final.

These are the real stakes: whether Zimbabwe can cast off the burdensome legacy of Mr. Mugabe's 37 years at the helm.

Employees will also owe taxes on their stakes – which Facebook will borrow billions to pay on their behalf – and hardly eases the pressure on the shares.Employees will actually owe taxes on their stakes, whether they decide to sell them or not, which is likely to create a whole new reason to cash in.

In the past, insiders who perceived their secrets to have these sorts of stakes, whether straight-arrow administration officials like John Dean or canny bureaucratic operators like Mark Felt or rogue whistle-blowers like Daniel Ellsberg or Edward Snowden, did not couch them (at least not at first) in bids for the best-seller lists.

Either way, having assembled the most unicorn stakes — whether you're a venture firm, mutual fund or otherwise — seems like a dubious distinction in the meantime.

Since then, most startups in the space have followed suit: Getting an insurance policy to protect users from having their assets stolen, damaged, or destroyed when rented out has become table stakes, whether you're talking about Airbnb or Getaround.