Sentence examples for then gambling from inspiring English sources

Pierce was driven in his mission by a kind of reckless zeal, praying for the ability to personally experience God's own heartbreak for his most broken people, to take on their suffering — and then gambling that God would somehow make good on Bob Pierce's promises to them.

Sonny Meredith, a state representative who was a powerful committee chairman, concluded that, if gambling cruises would be an economic benefit to river towns, then gambling boats that operated while docked in a town — his own Delta city of Greenville, for example — would be even better.

Sonny Meredith, a state representative who was a powerful committee chairman, concluded that, if gambling cruises would be an economic benefit to river towns, then gambling boats that operated while docked in a town—his own Delta city of Greenville, for example—would be even better.

If we can now, fast, build up the people's bank at the Post Office, now that it has effectively been given the wholehearted stamp of approval by the government, it will safeguard the Post Office network – no more dreadful and unnecessary closures – and will offer a real banking alternative to people who think banks should be about more than slicing consumers and then gambling with their money.

But in between the bomb and the betrothal is a great deal of incident — sometimes chaotic, often deeply moving, occasionally unexpectedly comic — including a spell in Las Vegas with his errant father, a man addicted first to alcohol, then gambling, and saddled with a floozy girlfriend named Xandra, a house on an unfinished subdivision in the desert and finally with debts he can't possibly pay off.

Fester's social life in prison revolved around one activity that was very popular back then: gambling.

Guests were expected to buy the money and then gamble it away, with the proceeds going to the group.

After overcoming the deficit created by a flat tire, he fought his way back, received his one-lap gift, then gambled on fuel.

He was seventh by the end of the opening lap, then gambled on a set of medium tyres after his fist pit stop to try and make it through to the finish.

Mr. Dieterle, who won the first season of "Top Chef," then gambled his prize money and his recipe for spicy duck meatballs to open a restaurant called Perilla, thinks globally.

Jamie began to work part-time in a coffee shop to shore up his finances, but he gambled away the money for a present for his mother, couldn't pay the rent and then gambled away the money his mother sent him to pay it.