Sentence examples for wager up from inspiring English sources

On March 2nd Maria Miller, the culture secretary, promised tougher regulation of high-stakes gaming machines, which allow betting-shop punters to wager up to £300 ($500) per minute.

The cost-cutting payments involved a plan set up in July 1989 in which executives could wager up to 10percentt of their salaries on meeting cost-cutting goals and earn double the amount wagered.

But with punters able to wager up to £100 every 20 seconds, there is concern about the social, mental and financial cost.

He announced his support after winning changes to the bill that allowed banks and financial institutions to wager up to three percent of their own money in hedge funds and alternative investments and quashing a $19 billion tax on big banks and hedge funds that was replaced with a funding mechanism using leftover TARP funds and increased FDIC fees.

So Mr. Abraham is wagering up to $75,000 that he can make a quick buck once the stock starts trading on the Nasdaq -- probably later this week -- and people start snapping up shares in a company they perceive as a bargain.

At the start of the season Leicester were 5,000-1 with bookmakers to win the league, a wager taken up by only 12 William Hill punters, among them the 39-year-old Leicester carpenter Leigh Herbert whose fiver, offered up in faith not hope, has now raked in £25,000.

Then you attach an amount you're willing to wager — in UP dollars — which you win if you fulfil the promise on time or lose if you renege.

I'd wager that up to one-quarter of malls are, for all intents and purposes, dead: characterized by vacancy rates of over 40%, while mom-and-pop stores that lack a national presence dominate the remaining occupied space.

From that point on, a DraftKings official told Rovell, pro-Woods wagers made up 60percentt of the action on the site.

The wagering went up faster.

Please bear in mind before making your wagers that up until a few months ago Amy maintained a photo blog called Teenage Unicorn, but also that the pig story involves a piglet who has to wear wee little bootsies on his four little feet because he is afraid of stepping in mud.