Sentence examples for stakes for which from inspiring English sources

Sykes's heroine has none of the severe stakes for which Lily Bart was once forced to play.

That theory could be put to the test next Saturday, since Found may yet step back in distance for the Champion Stakes, for which she is 5-1 second-favourite behind Almanzor on 7-4.

★ CAPRICORN 22 Dec-19 Jan As your personal planet, Saturn, figures so prominently in the planetary picture this winter, the stakes for which you are playing (or, rather, working) are likely to be weighty.

"When people face a disaster of this kind and see help coming from their government and help coming from outside, hopefully they realise on all sides that the stakes for which they are fighting are relatively trivial in comparison," he told reporters.

Sir Michael Stoute's colt was never sighted with a chance in the Hardwicke Stakes, for which he was sent off at 6-4, and trailed home 19 lengths behind his less-fancied stablemate Dartmouth, but the betting market clearly expects a bounce-back performance at Newmarket, for which he is no bigger than 5-2.

The trio will receive about 560 billion yen ($6.4 billion) for their Sanyo stakes, for which they paid 300 billion yen in 2006 ($2.5 billion at the forex rates at the time).

Besides Houghton Mifflin, which Mr. Messier acquired last year for $2.2 billion, including $500 million in debt, and the 10percentt Echostar stake, for which Vivendi agreed to pay $1.5 billion in December, the company is expected to seek buyers for the Italian pay television venture Telepiu, the Paris St. Germain soccer team and a package of telecommunications assets.

There will be 4 stake racesgrossing more than $100,000 each; two stake races for which the management will add $75,000 to the purses; eight for which $50,000 will be added; and thirteen with lesser prizes.

I say, 'Do you know what it is?' " The stakes for The Times, which like other newspaper companies has seen major declines in print advertising revenues, are enormous.

But the White House hopes to tap into its base of supporters to raise the stakes for Congress, which has not passed a major gun control measure since 1994, when the original assault weapon ban was enacted only to trigger a backlash among gun rights supporters who helped vote out the Democratic majorities.

Bold Ruler is also the sire of the best two-year-old in England this season, named Bold Lad, who won the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster, for which the race at Aqueduct was named, and the blue-ribbon Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket.