Sentence examples for staking from inspiring English sources

O'Malley hasn't been criticizing her directly on this but, as Dave Weigel from Bloomberg Politics put it, staking out his position and leaving it "up to the press to figure out who might be against such a thing".

He finished with 27 touches (22 contested) and five tackles, staking his claim for a round one berth.

When I joined a community garden, I found joy in simply staking up tomato plants with my neighbours.

When she finally turned the corner I was staking out, a large crowd suddenly appeared from nowhere and I thought my hopes were dashed: how would I approach her now?

"I just felt perhaps it could be done differently, by saying: 'At the moment the middle order is playing exceptionally well, we're backing these guys, the Ballances, the Roots, the Bells, etcetera etcetera, but while you are still playing for Surrey while still scoring runs, you are staking a great claim'.

Cameron appears to be staking his reputation on stopping Juncker, as he fears the leading candidate would not allow the UK to negotiate a new relationship with Brussels to the satisfaction of Eurosceptics.

"It's early days but they are certainly staking a claim for the most environmentally destructive government in Australia's history," Butler said.

Earnings for this glamorous breed, who were once handsomely rewarded for spending months staking out snow leopards for National Geographic, have vanished in an era where everyone is a photographer.

They want to see Lib Dems staking out clearer differences with their Tory partners.

The goal, Mr Erdogan declared, was to persuade the PKK to disarm; but under exactly what conditions continues to be a matter of frenzied speculation.Mr Erdogan is clearly staking his political future on fixing Turkey's stickiest problem.

But La Farge has no interest in staking out Murakami's territory.