Sentence examples for staking it from inspiring English sources

Here is a plant, well beyond its middle years, staking it all on one last fling, like Professor Immanuel Rath in "The Blue Angel".

Just as important as the kind of customer the City is attracting is the kind of entrepreneur staking it out.

But the comments have become, let's just say, self-selecting – the anonymously abusive and the bigoted increasingly staking it out as their own, leading anyone else to flee.

He was arrested when he returned to the building where he lived, at 231 Vernon Avenue in Brooklyn, Mr. Kelly said, by officers who had been staking it out.

For 2 euros you can see the frescoed chapels at the Kaisariani Monastery (30-210-723-6619; 8 a.m. to 3 p.m .. 2 p.m. 13) HARBOR CHIC Athenians used to turn up their noses at Piraeus, the blue-collar harbor city, but scenesters are staking it out again, especially the yacht-lined Mikrolimano harbor.

Just as I was wondering who on earth would buy the 900-odd First Quench stores that are still trading – short of staking it on a single hand of poker, I can't think of a quicker way to lose a few million quid – Oddbins held its best press tasting for seven years.

Theo laid this one on its side and staked it down.

For Abbas, who has staked it all on negotiations, the realization was especially deflating.

People who generally break into your house have staked it out.

And she staked it hard.

While he says he kept expecting to be squeezed for an equity stake, "it never happened.