Sentence examples for treasure at stake from inspiring English sources
With much treasure at stake, the dispute has already involved fistfights in monasteries and courtroom battles, and could turn nastier still.Some Tibetans think there are other factors, too, behind India's sensitivity about the Karmapa.
Hypotheses of this sort can be proved or disproved only by testing; it is hard to understand why the United States, with so many lives and so much treasure at stake in the war, would refuse to even try.
And yet eliminating the hyphen is not easy, especially given India's fraught relations with its neighbors in what is perhaps the most politically complicated region on earth, one in which American lives and treasure are at stake in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
After all, they know that a priceless treasure is at stake: the desire to understand the behaviour of our explosive star.
"An international treasure and America's conservation legacy are at stake".
At stake is access to an energy treasure-trove worth up to $4 trillion, and giant fields elsewhere are approaching exhaustion.
Perhaps because more money was at stake, these films tended to have the most familiar plots: adventurers go in search of buried treasure; a boy grows up to seek revenge on his family's killers.
"Everything is at stake".
