Sentence examples for wager more than from inspiring English sources

"Never wager more than you can afford to lose," Chen is admonished at the table.

And once more, the bettors — to wager more than they could spend or just enough to have some fun or, for the lucky ones, to make a buck on a horse — filed dutifully inside.

Michael said any bettor who wanted to wager more than $3,000 on the Super Bowl would have a difficult time finding a bookie to take the bet without a longstanding relationship or the ability to put the money down upfront.

Mr. Giuliani said he rarely wagered more than a few food items or tickets to events.

In the first three months of football season, gamblers wagered more than $1.1bn.

Their imaginations were working overtime in 1999 as Americans wagered more than $742 billion, according to an industry analyst, Christiansen Capital Advisors.

Bettors wagered more than $1 billion at the city's 68 off-track parlors last year, and bidders have offered $250 million to $300 million for them.

LOS ANGELES — A former mayor of San Diego spent the last decade wagering more than a billion dollars at casinos across the country, eventually liquidating her savings, auctioning her belongings, selling off real estate, borrowing from friends and taking more than $2 million from a charity set up by her late husband, a fast-food tycoon.

At a time when so many in the business community appear to be supporting Mr. Romney, it is telling that some businessmen and investors expect a different result — and are wagering more than rhetoric; they are staking their wallet on it.

DealBook » At a time when so many in the business community appear to be supporting Mr. Romney, it is telling that some businessmen and investors expect a different result — and are wagering more than rhetoric; they are staking their wallet on it.

Frank's bill will on Wednesday propose safeguards against compulsive and underage gambling, money laundering, fraud and identity theft, according to the Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative, which says that Americans have wagered more than $100.0 billion annually with offshore Internet gambling operators in spite of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006.