A gripping study of sin, guilt and obsession, in which love proves to be the ultimate gamble.
It's sometimes said that war photographers are driven by the need for the adrenaline fix of the ultimate gamble, but the best and the most successful seem pretty stable people.
The dilemma is, do they go for somebody who has played in the Premier League or do they go for the ultimate gamble in January and go for somebody unproven here?" What they need in a nutshell: One of those teams who needs a new striker.
Anyway, this elaborately patterned story leads to a showdown that involves that ultimate in gambling, Russian roulette.
Even Paul Sturrock's triple substitution against Hartlepool on the day, the ultimate managerial gamble, worked like a dream, with two of the subs scoring – a sure sign that all is right in the world.
Ever since we first saw the great gray ships lying in the Hudson, they have represented for us the ultimate military gamble-an unthinkable total of men & machinery to risk on a single lucky shot.
Mr. Okada's camp, in turn, is questioning the propriety of a $135 million donation that Wynn Resorts made last year to the University of Macau — its chancellor is also the head of Macao's government, with ultimate oversight of gambling.
It's the ultimate moral hazard: banks are gambling wildly in the casino, but we're on the hook for their worst losses.
Mrs. McDaniel, the 69-year-old wife of a retired corporate executive, had gambled on the ultimate in personalized medicine, an approach known as whole genome sequencing, and it seemed to be paying off.
He demanded the abolition of evil practices such as opium smoking, gambling, and prostitution and promised an ultimate reward to those who followed the teachings of the Lord.
