Sentence examples for without stakes from inspiring English sources

The gradual relaxation of church opposition to card playing, but not to gambling, stimulated acceptance of auction bridge, a game most often played without stakes and never for high stakes in the sense that gambling games are.

According to a Harvard Business Review study, published in April, the company's success rate for contracts without stakes is 42.7percentnt; with stakes, it is 82.8percentnt.

The firm has found multiple exits affording them returns of 10x or more without stakes in the big Web 2.0 names.

A Summit whose results are ready weeks ahead, at least in terms of media coverage and the general opinion, might easily be perceived as being without stakes.

Some of his new Depression-era skiffles accentuate elements of the persona, without staking too great a claim.

Mr. Singh's compositions make reference to racial politics -- one song is called "Wogs Will Walk" -- without staking out specific positions.

In the diorama battles between high and low, cooked and raw, there's no doubt of Hill's loyalties — you don't write on Holbein, on Blake, on Burke, on Handel without staking your claim in cold didactic ground.

Voilà: cylindrical cages 25 inches wide and three and a half feet high, heavy enough to stand on their own without staking — and far superior to those flimsy things sold at the garden center.

What am I now but an old broad with glitter at her temples, scattered in her hair, yet I can't stretch on the bus without staking a claim.

Before these, we have a triptych of serio-comic novels – The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere and Farewell Waltz – vividly evoking the milieu of postwar and communist-era Czechosolovakia without staking out a claim to the formal originality that would become Kundera's hallmark.

In the tradition of much American independent cinema, the narrative remains flat, without stakes-heightening plot points.