Sentence examples for stakes lie from inspiring English sources

By this point McEwan hardly needs the specter of murder to convince us that mortal stakes lie behind closed doors.

It is important that the stakes lie along the same edge, namely, corners 1 & 2 as shown in Figure 1, not corners 1 & 4. Bang in the stakes using hammer or equivalent tool.

Other bankers said that one big obstacle to the purchase of minority stakes lay in the wariness of many foreign companies in accepting a Chinese partner — particularly since nearly four-fifths of Chinese acquirers are state-owned enterprises, and most of the rest tend to have Chinese government links.

At stake lies the aquifer, an underground layer of water from which drinking water is extracted.

There are no fMRI studies of high-stakes lying, or lying by practiced liars, or even by people who are practiced in the one particular lie relevant to the case.

Just about everyone you know tells low-stakes lies, but some people even go so far as to lie about important matters that could forever change their relationships, end their employment, or even send them to jail.

No they can't; most people are terrible lie catchers, fooled by high stake lies again and again.

Those are what I call high stake lies; they are the lies that the police and the FBI and insecure spouses are trying to catch.

If the capitalists were more correct than the communists, and if human nature is fundamentally more competitive than it is cooperative, then it will not surprise us that people, left to their own devices in any setting where large amounts of money are at stake, will lie and cheat and steal.

Nearly everyone tells low stake lies.

In the years when the bubble was peaking, 2002-2006, I met many people with no obvious stake in lying who would tell me stories of how housing was always a great investment.