Sentence examples for to stake everything from inspiring English sources

Monaghan hadn't meant to stake everything in Florida.

A sporting pitch, the necessity for South Africa to stake everything on winning and the telling statistic that there has a been a positive result in each of the last nine Tests at The Wanderers render it all but impossible.

He agreed with Bly's dictum that "in the new style, where the tension and density of the emotion is everything, you have to, like a good gambler, agree to stake everything on one throw".

Slash back employment laws and other red tape, say many MPs: if that involves a dust-up with Brussels, good.Tories close to the leadership insist that Mr Cameron is willing to stake everything on the economy.

This has been ignored by those in the west who have come very late - possibly too late - to endorse the two-state solution, and Arafat's readiness to stake everything in pursuit of this goal is rarely acknowledged.

But the cardinal mistake at HBOS, the one that resulted in the surrender of their independence to Lloyds TSB and then necessitated a wholesale government rescue, was to stake everything on rising prices in the property market.

Against the stirring but simple riff, Gabriel sang of a spiritual awakening/epiphany/supernatural event which caused him to cut connections to the past and stake everything on a fresh roll of the dice.

The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, appears to be staking everything on a crucial EU-Turkey summit, scheduled to take place on 7 March.

I would stake everything on this.

Lacking the pressure of a plot, these passages stake everything on their pure interest as writing.

American promoters want him because they know he will stake everything.