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1. "There's a lot at stake," she said, "More than you could know, but I do care for you more than you think and that fact is making it difficult to fulfill my obligations
2. The little man raised the stake a shade higher and gave a throaty, smoke congested cackle
3. ‘My mother has an ancestor who was burnt at the stake, you know
4. His strange new work colleague Moses Tah, an immigrant from the battle-scarred West African state of Liberia claims the ability to give him these powers, but is he for real? If Moses does possess the powers that Michael wants, will he be able to gain them? If he can learn them in time, will they be enough to change the destiny of the people around him? Lives are at stake; families, friends, colleagues, innocent bystanders
5. He understood all that and understood what was really at stake here on a level deeper than that
6. What is at stake is not the issue of convenience or even success
7. What is at stake is the issue of life and death and eternity, which is in the last analysis the issue of the glory of God
8. Many of us are unwilling to allow the threat of survival to persist when even our ministry or calling or legacy are at stake
9. He wanted to be the one to explain to the camp what was at stake
10. "You must understand that the future of our world is at stake
11. There will be lives at stake, on both sides
12. Have you any idea how much is at stake, my dear uncharismatic ex? Looting is an old, long-established activity but looters these days have better technology and better networks than anyone
13. The seasons passed in a confusion of school uniforms and shoe sizes, just as much as they passed through the ever present need to prepare flower beds, to stake out fresh young plants and to harvest
14. office was at stake
15. of kindling towards the stake
16. The sun was just starting to peek its nippy nose over the mountains, when Jim and the last of the odd hands, pulled up stake
17. ’ Claude leant his hoe against the nearest stake and
18. There was too much at stake, and for him to be at anything less than perfect condition could result in a costly mistake
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21. Why should she be caught up in an adventure such as this, in a battle with ghost machines from outer space with the fate of the whole world at stake? 'Because you fell in love with someone from outer space, you ninny,' she thought
22. So much was at stake here
23. He may fear my ‘witchcraft,’ but he’ll stake
24. “Oh, don’t say that! there is an innocent life at stake too,
25. It was rather a sense of how much was at stake, how much was riding on his cooperation and amenability
26. A slab of granite pressing down on her prostrate form, with more rocks added slowly, until the last few drops of blood oozed from her pores… Vines twisted tight around her throat, then released each time light left her eyes… A stake skewered through her body from one end to the other
27. Lives are at stake here,” Zarko pressed on
28. Her only brother’s life was at stake here and she was behaving like a spoilt child
29. As it turned out, he would have lost his stake, since Mrs Pilfer managed to land the pie safely on an uncluttered corner of the table
30. So you see civilian, I have a stake in any job I’m told to perform for the government
31. Joseph tied the donkey to a stake, then said nothing as he helped me up the steps
32. “He’s never been made head of a mission before, but Venus and at least two other gods are at stake
33. when Jill’s welfare was at stake
34. with Christ is at stake
35. The man had died with a stake through the heart after he was turned by a Vampire of the Reihei Coven
36. „It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied rush to truth in unimportant matters, and refuse to face her where graver issues are at stake
37. It felt as though a stake had been driven through his stomach
38. So many times he had thought to be cautious, going for a colour rather than a number, only for the balance to just slightly be against him with relatively small bets, until the final large stake for a big gamble to recoup the losses
39. Still, even now, he’d not stake such a large amount on a single number
40. In the grand scheme of things what did his little life matter when there are billions of lives at stake
41. She knew it would be cheaper in Germany, but who cares, she had been told that soon she would receive her percentage of the deal plus a stake in future profits as long as she kept them informed of all movements and plans of the relevant parties
42. It seemed to Nathan that a lot was at stake but he didn’t know what that ‘a lot’ was
43. Not only was Sespian being drugged, but his very life was at stake
44. He had a two milliondollar stake in the entire operation
45. We watched as their hands were taped to this first stake
46. ―vital national interests‖ are at stake? In a word, where does society draw the line on inappropriate conduct? America is a great nation because its institutions are recoverable
47. “Each employee has a personal stake in the discussion, and they know what their options are
48. I, like the rest, believed that the survival of the country was at stake and these actions were necessary: foreign agitators with the help of treasonous Nicaraguans were funneling weapons into the hands of the protestors, providing para-military training, false documents, and printing revolutionary propaganda
49. “You still don’t understand what’s at stake, Cora
50. So then, all he needed do was stake out La Hacienda and be at the airport waiting when the group was seen loading luggage into the car
51. I have a stake in this
52. One these men Stuart decided he would stake all his hopes on escaping undetected
53. The Fairies pride was at stake
54. with Bruno at the stake! Illusion — sheer illusion of
55. At stake is our place in the universe as a sustainable biosphere for future generations
56. Everything was ruined! She had put all of her own and not at least Calras and Elior's fate at stake
57. “You’re making things sound so fucking simple while in fact you don’t have the slightest clue about what’s at stake here
58. What’s at stake in Vietnam, the six day war, Angola
59. “There’s a lot at stake here
60. Elior understood very well how much he had put at stake by leaving Tinby
61. “Poppycock!” said Michelle, who could be aggressive when core beliefs were at stake
62. You could have laughed that shit off, put your stake in your prize woman and
63. ―This was the health of your children at stake
64. One is that if a scientist today suggests, as I do, that a Leftist is wired wrong, they are nearly burned at the stake
65. As historian Paul Johnson states, Stalin and Hitler acted almost as lone agents in this monopoly game, with the world at stake
66. man that was burning at the stake
67. Atot’ain released the dogs from the sled and tied them to a stake still harnessed together
68. “Nothing to worry about? My sister’s life is at stake,” Manda said, shaking her head at him
69. “Their lives are at stake
70. reputation is at stake, He had, in the Old Testament, adopted them as His people, and this adoption
71. at stake or even the height of his barnet … it was hungry and
72. point where we can stake our lives on Him
73. The wolf snapped my stake in half with a single thrusting clasp through his teeth
74. Would it be the stake or a pint of blood, was Akua friend or foe? Akua caught me staring, and stared back
75. I didn’t believe it wise to alter into my human form just yet, for all I knew TJ may have been harbouring a stake beneath her jumper right now, and I didn’t want to go into battle today with any bothersome nicks that my brothers could take advantage of
76. Sure a stake was painfully paralysing, but bearable
77. I fell onto my knees, bringing my hands to encompass the stake as it stabbed into my vampire heart while looking up at the sky, thinking that half of the prophecy had come true
78. He pushed me onto the floor, gently placing his front paws on my chest the way he had my brother earlier, but without force or pain, and I felt my body release itself, the stake still firmly wedged in my chest
79. I felt a sharp pain, opening my eyes naturally, only to see the stake plunged in my chest being pulled out painfully by the creature’s teeth as he clasped the wood solidly between his fangs
80. very way of life is at stake here! If the dragons at large start
81. amount at stake, and the only chance we have of controlling what we
82. “She was burned at the stake,” He said his voice breaking
83. at stake in the upcoming heroin smuggling trial, one of the most expensive
84. “I’m so sorry…” I grab the stake with both hands and prepare to pull it out
85. My eyes stare at the stake in his chest, and then glance toward the bathroom door
86. My hands on the stake, I hold it tight, about to pull it
87. I’m wondering if he’s still recovering from the effects of the stake
88. Now that I’m full, I remember I wanted to ask how he’s been, what happened when he woke up from the stake Channing forced into his chest a few days ago
89. “What happened when you removed the stake from Zachary’s chest?” I ask after a moment of silence
90. “He began rummaging on about how strange it was that I moved around with a stake in my pocket, waiting for jealousy to possess me
91. Contracts Committee drove a stake in the ground and said I was his
92. The individual arguments were of minor importance but a principle was at stake
93. Abraham knew that once the physical struggle to succeed was over, there would be more than just a cold grave in a foreign land, he knew that death was not the end, that there was more than just his good name at stake and this motivated him to look beyond his own gratification
94. Someone suggested that there are eleven steps in any new money management endeavor you undertake where personal interest and stake is high:
95. burned at the stake 1415]
96. But the Church itself did not burn the heretics at the stake
97. stake: here certain things cannot be said, certain ideas cannot be expressed, certain policies cannot be proposed, certain behavior cannot be permitted without making
98. Do we have manipulation that reaches the point of conspiracy? Is there violation of the tax code? Or is this array of captive organizations within the boundary of the law? Since so much is at stake, I believe it is an area that can and should be subject to congressional investigation
99. at stake on that night for both of us
1. They had a fire going near the open end of the canvas staked over the front truck
2. Since then he had the Music Manufacturing lobby staked out, but so far he had not regained his quarry
3. "Were you staked out last sleep?" she asked
4. where a dozen or so “Smiley Faces” of various sizes are staked into the ground
5. He had staked the cow out over by the tree in the corner of the field, but now he couldn’t see her anywhere
6. Reaching the spot where he’d staked out the cow, Piers carefully opened the small box he was carrying and took out the stainless steel contact rods, screwing them together into one long probe
7. Cal’s horse was staked out in the woods
8. “They probably just staked out the California Confidential remote broadcast van and followed it to your building
9. In it, George saw Bill Clinton lying on the floor with his arms staked over his head, and his legs staked in a spread-eagle pose
10. As they walked in silence around the clearing lit by staked torches and lanterns, the haunting melody behind them grew more distant
11. They found a car hidden in the forest yesterday and staked it out
12. And when he was gone the slave took and staked the vineyard; and when he had finished the staking of the vines he saw that the vineyard was full of weeds
13. I prayed him much that he would explain to me the similitude of the field and of the master of the vineyard and of the slave who staked the vineyard and of the sakes and of the weeds that were plucked out of the vineyard and of the son and of the friends who were fellow-councillors for I knew that all these things were a kind of parable
14. More manpower assisted in stretching out the legs, and one by one they were staked and tied down
15. then staked out the spot behind the drapes for a few minutes
16. Many had already staked out their spots at the tables that had been arranged in neat
17. Places like this still exist throughout the sands, crafted drift wood bodegas half covered, billowing big top tents bought in the wave left blowing in the wind, their covers bleached out by sunlight still staked to the ground by the bits of magic that gave them their first life
18. The actor’s head staked and paraded to the ocean in a procession of death silence, all the faces uncovered
19. staked everything on China's good will
20. Hussain staked his life to protect his land and ended up killing Rashid, his cousin
21. �Yeah, they've had your road staked out since dawn, seems you were the only one with a smile on their face this morning
22. �As I say, we've got the place staked out and he's barricaded the door, anyway he ain't going anywhere; sure you don't want any more coffee?� asks Steve with a confident smile
23. We staked out the house all night with the firearm in close reach
24. As he lay writhing with his blooded fingers clutching at his blood gushing neck, one more carefully aimed thrust through an eye socket passed through the back of his skull and on into the ground below and, after a few moments of violent twitching against the firmly staked head, the body lay still
25. than any amount of money, I have staked it on these
26. and he’s staked his reputation on us being wrong
27. The media had there staked out as
28. The nine French women and the single Time Patrol woman seen earlier were waiting for them in a wide, deep compartment nearly filled with large cardboard boxes staked on modular shelves
29. I was a cat staked above a pyre
30. “Good old Bernie, after we change cars we book into a hotel then we check out your unit, with any luck one or both of these scumbags will have it staked out waiting for your return from holiday
31. staked his own claim, risking everything in hopes of hitting it big
32. Five hours later Mike was being brought up to date by the local team who had staked out the area
33. in a drop-box and then staked as bait for two weeks in a jerry-built, mango-crate trap,
34. progressed into a linearity of thought where a specific postulate is staked out, promulgated
35. She staked out the funeral this morning early
36. The fight was going on and soon Divya overpowered Mohini and staked her
37. She tried connecting to Ansh, but Arjun guessed her game plan and with one swift action he pulled out the oak log he had picked from the forest and with one strong blow staked it through Vaidehi’s evil dead heart, finishing her evilness forever
38. staked out as our homestead, but every day in the grocery store
39. Beastie had staked out a spot on a
40. ” A preserver of the Old Ways, of the Powhite ways before Walter the First staked claim over the land
41. Amazingly, completely hidden from his view until now; two padded folding lawn chairs had been unfolded and staked into the soft, pearlescent sand
42. all staked their claims and moved on
43. They staked out the site and repeated the procedure a few yards away
44. We’ll be opening new staked areas further along the river, and the slaves will be housed in tents until more caves can be dug out
45. The Warriors have staked out the positions
46. was staked, and it wasn’t by Jeremiah! If he suddenly turned up
47. He staked a
48. A star, like the one that covered the guy staked next to the sea, stood out from the hair on the male's chest
49. He preached it as the miraculous fact on which Jesus Himself staked the whole credibility of His mission, and as a fact proved by such abounding evidence that no caviller at miracles has ever yet honestly dared to meets�He preached it as a fact, which was the very top-stone of the whole work of redemption, proving that what Christ undertook He fully accomplished, that the ransom was accepted, the atonement completed, and the prison doors thrown open forever
50. He had staked out this little shack for four days now
51. That these valiant men, who staked their lives in guarding their ancient land from falling into the alien hands, were not readmitted into the parent fold even after their release by, or escape from, their captors for their association with the mlechhas, their enforced confinement occasioned! And those valiant men, rendered hapless by the prejudices of the Brahmans, had nowhere else to go in their own land but to the Islamic camp
52. At the hustings thereafter, though she led her party to defeat, yet, abetted by the anti-Bharatiya Janata Party elements, beguiled by the age-old Indian realpolitik of settling the native scores with foreign hands, she staked her claim to become India’s Prime Minister
53. refusing to let go of their fingers, as they fought with their concentration, internal strength and even staked their lives upon it
54. kings who have staked out claims on the earth which is the body in mac-
55. Avery led them through the crowd to where Dillon had a table staked out
56. “When you told me that Pedro disintegrated after he was staked in the heart, I knew
57. I thought that when a vampire was staked in the heart, they were destroyed,” he said
58. “But to truly kill a vampire, they not only have to be staked in the heart, but in addition, they have to be decapitated or burned, and their ashes scattered
59. “You told me that you staked the vampire queen once,” she said
60. “She wasn’t staked in heart; she just needs blood, doesn’t she?”
61. hitting his intended target, he staked her in the shoulder
62. “That’s what you felt when I was staked
63. “We can feel when one of the members is staked or harmed
64. She had been tortured with her arms and legs nearly raw from holy water being doused on her, her limbs appeared to be disjointed, and she was staked in her shoulder
65. We fought and he staked me
66. “Pedro suffered his punishment when he was staked and burned,” Anna said
67. over? It would be staked out
68. hisown card, he wins all the money staked
69. those who have staked money upon it win fromthe bank
70. on the table, andmoney may be staked upon it precisely as upon the réjouissance card
71. In a harsh frenzy of emotion and carnal desire he staked his husband’s claim as my master, roughly grabbing my legs and forcing them far apart, gazing hard on the vulnerability of my nakedness
72. I had to hope the Wilcoxes wouldn’t have that staked out, too
73. 00 I staked on Pella to WIN, gives me a net profit of £20
74. 00 I staked on Sunset Mirage to WIN, gives me a net profit of £10
75. 00 I staked on Sunset Mirage to WIN, gives me a net profit of £NIL
76. 29 I staked on Sunset Mirage to WIN, gives me a net profit of £5
77. Then I staked him
78. Her vampires had been watching them ever since Alistair had been staked
79. Claims have to be staked out at each boundary line with pegs pointing straight up in the air
80. He’d staked it on a whim, and fighting the émigré might be fatal
81. clubs, staked out on altars and decapitated, or their hearts
82. I staked her and she…
83. He staked a claim in a far-off corner of the government’s land that just happened to look out over the top of a ridge
84. The claim was originally staked in the name of the Shoshone Indian medicine man Henry “Hunting Sticks” Madison
85. Tim had staked off 40 acres of land in Big Lake cavern
86. staked out land in Napa, Sonoma, and Mendocino areas of the former
87. He had only staked on supermen
88. Carrie was glad she had staked out her
89. Only to find himself staked, the vampire unspared
90. The parade was about to start when they all jogged up to the spot in the crowd Vince’s family had staked out
91. “So you staked out the place
92. point of this weapon of pleasure, which she staked herself upon, up
93. Never did gamester, whose whole fortune is staked on one cast of the die, experience the anguish which Edmond felt in his paroxysms of hope
94. Then his men simultaneously staked it off at several points around its circumference
1. That sound like high stakes
2. " Lmore chided about the paucity of the stakes
3. My own boots – softened so that I may wear them without getting blisters straight away – plus an old pair of Gilla’s will have to suffice in the footware stakes
4. In this case the stakes are big, bigger than anything he has attempted before
5. This time, she thinks, the stakes are higher
6. ‘True, but the stakes are now much higher
7. They went to each of the evenly spaced little stakes marking the next post's location
8. It proved of excellent advantage to me now, that when I was a boy, I used to take great delight in standing at a basket-maker’s, in the town where my father lived, to see them make their wicker-ware; and being, as boys usually are, very officious to help, and a great observer of the manner in which they worked those things, and sometimes lending a hand, I had by these means full knowledge of the methods of it, and I wanted nothing but the materials, when it came into my mind that the twigs of that tree from whence I cut my stakes that grew might possibly be as tough as the sallows, willows, and osiers in England, and I resolved to try
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11. The large wooden gates in front of him were further protected by rows of wooden stakes that would allow a wagon through but only via a torturous S that meant no one could charge the gates
12. It took over an hour to maneuver all of the vardos through the stakes and into the quad where they were placed in the traditional circle
13. The One needs every bit of Consciousness that develops in this realm, the stakes are too high
14. ‘watches’ everywhere and the stakes are
15. “Raises the stakes to be in love, doesn’t it?”
16. “Banging stakes in and then trying to string wire between them would be absolute suicide and whoever tried it wouldn’t last more than a few seconds
17. “Remember we want prisoners dead Hun’s are no good so when we hear their wire party start to put the stakes in we will rush them
18. “The later waves will be carrying the same as you but in addiation Vickers and Lewis machine guns and ammo, barbed wire and stakes plus what ever else is needed to consolidate the enemy terrain we capture in the attack
19. We had been tripping up over the shit that they had made us carry like angle iron stakes, spiral stakes as well as water cans that were empty and had probably been riddled by bullets
20. But Em was upstairs, and the last thing her sister needed right now was more high stakes drama
21. But if nothing else, they kept each other out of the matrimonial stakes
22. But this is just the latest skirmish in a very long war, and the stakes are higher than you can imagine
23. If the stakes were high enough, he was capable of anything
24. Whatever the reason he restrained himself now, I had no doubt that he would use all his power if the stakes were high enough
25. The stakes were too high
26. And I had to find out exactly how much of myself was at risk, to what measures he would go to force my obedience when the stakes were so high
27. The stakes were very high
28. They must be playing for very high stakes
29. were bugging a lead on a high stakes poker marathon
30. in conservatorship and the Treasury has taken controlling ownership stakes in them
31. Those are high stakes
32. the curtains of your habitations: spare not, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes; 3 For you shall break out on the right
33. Some of the pursuits on offer are not to my taste; some of the members enjoy gambling for extremely high stakes, while others enjoy spending their time with one or more of the beautiful women who seem to be freely available
34. stakes filtering the garbage so that the water may continue
35. Older children ran through the crowd with wooden stakes, sticks, and rocks, pounding them into the ground to secure the web
36. seemed he had pulled out all the stops in the fashion stakes tonight but he wasn’t about to spoil her evening
37. a dent, it wasn’t Derek himself that was to blame, it was the fact that Petunia was winning in the social stakes, it was obvious too
38. Tell me what do you prefer, burning flames, rolling heads, multitudes of stakes, blah, blah, blah?”
39. The stakes are high, and the playing field
40. Jesse bid on it and raised the stakes, as the guy across from us wanted it just as badly, he and the guy went at it
41. for nearly six years for this new baby to come and the stakes
42. The team had sounded out external security measures, determined the internal layout and positions of defenses, ammo storage, airplane positioning, and officer bunkers in order to determine where to place the aiming stakes and position the rockets and mortars
43. And seeing that the vines were suitably supported on stakes and the ground moreover dug up and all the weeds rooted out and the vines fruitful he was greatly pleased with the work of his slave
44. The field is this world; and the Lord of the field is He who created and perfected and strengthened all things; [and the son is the Holy Spirit; ] and the slave is the Son of God; and the vines are this people whom He Himself planted; and the stakes are the holy angels of the Lord who keep His people together; and the weeds that were plucked out of the vineyard are the iniquities of God's servants; and the dishes which He sent Him from His able are the commandments which He gave His people through His Son; and the friends and fellow-councillors are the holy angels who were first created; and the Master's absence from home is the time that remains until His appearing
45. “The stakes are not as high as they might be in a student’s workplace
46. “Maybe, I will just pull up stakes and visit some other friends out west somewhere
47. Each big male stakes out a part of the woods
48. Some of the houses were up on stilts—built of vertical stakes like bamboo, and roofed with thatch
49. With every job the stakes got higher and when, on one occasion her misleading intentions were discovered by her mark as she rummaged through his strong box, she was required to fight for her life and Zerch ever near had needed to rescue her
50. "I sensed this was going too slickly, but… I can think of only one thing—we play it as it lies, wait for the right conditions as long as feasible, then pull up stakes and try next year
51. The player just ahead of Calvin had raised the stakes dramatically
52. Several days’ labour preparing the defences were evident, with several ditches dug into the frozen ground at the track’s entrance to slow a charge up and lines of sharpened stakes had been driven into the ground to stop any cavalry
53. Why had he pulled up stakes? She was the aggrieved one
54. the higher a DJ gets in the music industry, the higher the stakes become
55. After trudging up the path, Tim marked the area I pointed to with the stakes and twine and asked me why I’d picked it
56. Raising the productivity of employees whose jobs cannot be automated is the next great performance challenge—and the stakes are high
57. were involved in a game where the stakes were high
58. game where the stakes were high and the playing
59. If the stakes are high and time allows, we should think before acting!
60. The reporters and students are directed to Richard for new stakes in MAG as Jason is now head of the conglomerate and outside of the r and d floor
61. Despite well-honed diversionary tactics they proved superior in the conversation stakes and I remained the sole topic
62. Opposite to the library, a group of elegant horses was stationed frolicking near a water fountain made of dark wood stakes
63. The stakes are high because if indeed
64. thoroughly complicated and high stakes world is
65. Inevitable Battle for the highest possible stakes
66. Raise the Stakes, what's at risk
67. stakes of the game
68. You can always Raise the Stakes, Increase the rhythm of the
69. Raise the Stakes
70. Being evenly matched in the verbal stakes, our first slanging match was memorable - warming the insides and leaving us relaxed
71. the reader's interest? Raise the stakes
72. You constantly Raise The Stakes, the price that your character will have to pay for failure
73. This raises the stakes
74. Not only guns but knives, blades, stakes and staves
75. couple of wooden stakes would not go amiss
76. `That is setting the stakes too high
77. They could only be destroyed by sunlight, holy water, garlic and wooden stakes through the heart
78. In sandy or loose soil, put large rocks on top of tent stakes to hold them in
79. In rocky soil, where tent stakes won’t take, use rocks inside the corners of your tent to anchor it securely
80. The record will show (for a few months, at least) that Gerard died after committing suicide and that Paul, totally unconnected with the Gerard scenario, has done what he has done before and pulled up stakes to move on to some unknown destination
81. But now the stakes were higher and, along with that, so were the risks
82. Or any game with stakes, but wasn’t that what I was doing already? All of us with lives on the line were playing with the ultimate stakes
83. He helped pound the stakes into the ground and tie those men to the stakes
84. “Do you have any wooden stakes?”
85. “We can get some stakes here
86. They came up with about ten good stakes
87. The stakes: If you’re investing a lot of money launching a new product to a major market with established competition, the stakes are high
88. Tim had a bow with wooden arrows, a few stakes for Vampires and a container of holy water
89. The stakes were too high and the probability of success too low
90. Consider the stakes, read the material for yourself
91. "Yes, we compromised ourselves by taking them into custody, but the stakes were too large to do it any other way
92. The stakes grew higher and 20 minutes into the game, four players had to pull out losing their month's wages
93. • Stakes Race – A term used to describe the highest class of horse racing
94. When they got there a group of men were already pulling the monster off the sharpened stakes they had set in the bottom of a pit covered with dry leaves, and it stopped lowing
95. A hundred stakes
96. If I have to risk my political career on this subject, then I better understand fully what is at stakes here
97. big projects for high stakes
98. He recalled the discomfort he had experienced at having to sleep with these cases on the steamer across the Atlantic; the sleep deprivation had almost inspired him to abandon the entire scheme, but the stakes, including the monetary compensation, were too great for that
99. As for guys they really don�t care about petty things like that, except of course if the stakes are high, then guys start doing some really scary and at times rather idiotic of things
100. He always believed that was carrying the game to the extremes, especially when the stakes involved land and homes, and had long ago resolved to risk only that cash which he had on him at the time
1. staking them out with cricket stumps,
2. I could try to find Dorian’s house, but I wasn’t sure of the address, and if my attacker had any friends, surely they’d be staking it out, waiting for me to reappear
3. It was staking everything on the one main chance
4. Yet, on the final day with Patty and Doug staking out the logging company, as he drove to Edward’s office to make good on his threats, he inexplicably became a complete bundle of nerves
5. And when he was gone the slave took and staked the vineyard; and when he had finished the staking of the vines he saw that the vineyard was full of weeds
6. time for staking the blame
7. The details were a bit sketchy but they had been watching for anyone using his modus operandi in Fortitude Valley and had been staking out the red light area for several days
8. people were staking out their sites for the July 4 weekend
9. mankind looks to the stars for conquests, staking out his path to the heavens
10. climbed on top of him possessively staking his claim and returning his mouth to where it
11. When the search for gold began, there was no law for staking a claim
12. Hitler firmly believed that by staking everything, on this massive blow, it would cause the inevitable collapse of the artificial wartime coalition between the ultra-Capitalists in the west and the ultra Marxists in the east
13. Business enterprises - from multinational conglomerates to solo entrepreneurs - are staking their presence on the Internet, all poised to become pioneers in what promises to be the frontier of electronic commerce
14. This is NuLuv: paying back a neighbor with a token gift of interest to thank them for believing in you and staking themselves with and in you
15. lips thoroughly as if staking his claim on the red head
16. “He has to pay for staking me, and I look forward to returning the favor
17. staking a claim to the new medium its iPod had helped inspire and
18. Now Stacey was staking his life on it
19. Life had continued as normal, the ramifications of staking Alistair non-existent
20. forethought compensated for by staking a claim in the energy and
21. The moon sat at its center position, shining brightly and staking its claim over the night
22. Staking is another factor that you should be good at if you want to win at poker
23. Try to keep staking plans simple; when you win, you can change the stakes level
24. See, then, Anselmo, the peril thou art encountering in seeking to disturb the peace of thy virtuous consort; see for what an empty and ill-advised curiosity thou wouldst rouse up passions that now repose in quiet in the breast of thy chaste wife; reflect that what thou art staking all to win is little, and what thou wilt lose so much that I leave it undescribed, not having the words to express it
25. And now he was staking out the quiet little girls in the class and hurting them
26. His money gone, Louie had to tap a friend for a $1,000 loan, staking his Chevy convertible as collateral
27. If nothing else, he could tip off Samantha’s idol about the oddballs in coveralls who were staking him out
28. They’ve been staking out this street for the better part of a week
29. They were only staking out this place as a precaution, but there she is—
30. He was favour’d to win, and indeed he had commenced his Victory by staking Cocklyn’s Foot, but each Time he came near the First Mate, the Latter so deftly cockt his Peg-Leg as to frighten Llewelyn with dire Damage to his Privities
31. Ash had spotted invisi-lines before, but those few times had been in situations where she’d been staking out an area for hours and either the wind had blown the rope or something else had moved it, making its digital fibers blur when they reset their translucent colors
32. Nicholas submitted to him, and at one moment prayed to God as he had done on the battlefield at the bridge over the Enns, and then guessed that the card that came first to hand from the crumpled heap under the table would save him, now counted the cords on his coat and took a card with that number and tried staking the total of his losses on it, then he looked round for aid from the other players, or peered at the now cold face of Dolokhov and tried to read what was passing in his mind
33. I’d be staking my life on it
34. The new staking plan meant that our risk was increasing every day in drawdown
35. We were reminded this month of that fear as our staking increased dramatically
36. This month the staking plan meant that our stake increased substantially and to be honest we didn't have time to get used to it
37. I don't blame him for thinking that because most are, but it does bug me that I was open and straight with the guy about how much we would be staking and everything was rosy until we actually start to reach that level
38. The main account staking plan was now being traded on what we called 'virtual' funds - so at £80,000 when we took out the second £10,000 we still traded the account as if it was still at £80,000 when in reality it was at £60,000 with the other £20,000 in the income account but still available
39. To the point that had we remained on our original staking plan, new account highs would have been made on day 14
40. The high peak you can see is November 2006 - the second lower peak is January ran with lower staking and you can see what happens from there - direct evidence I suppose that trends exist in every part of trading including equity curves!
41. This changed quite a bit over the time as we experimented with different staking plans
42. For eight years, through college and for four years after college, I maintained a routine of staking myself with $10,000 in order to buy and sell low-priced stocks and options until I increased my portfolio to the $120,000 to $130,000 range
43. " Come here ! " I shouted right across the table to a pla3-er beside whom I had been sitting before, a grey-headed man with a moustache, and a purple face, wearing evening dress, who had been for some hours staking
44. But I did not listen, I was staking at random, not on zero this time
45. True, chairs were provided around the tables, but few players made use of them—more especially if there was a large attendance of the general public; since to stand allowed of a closer approach; and, therefore, of greater facilities for calculation and staking
46. "Then I should receive nothing if I were staking?"
47. "Keep on staking upon zero, and also stake a thousand gulden upon rouge
48. "It was you who persuaded me to cease staking upon it
49. As a matter of fact, De Grier's one object was to distract the old lady from staking large sums; wherefore, he now suggested to her that she should stake upon certain numbers, singly and in groups
50. Certainly, if the rules of the game had permitted even of my staking fifty thousand florins at a time, I should have staked them
51. My life had broken in two, and yesterday had infected me with a habit of staking my all upon a card
52. I began by staking ten gulden upon passe
53. After a moment's thought I selected zero—beginning by staking five gulden at a time
54. That gulden I staked upon manque—and there is something in the feeling that, though one is alone, and in a foreign land, and far from one's own home and friends, and ignorant of whence one's next meal is to come, one is nevertheless staking one's very last coin! Well, I won the stake, and in twenty minutes had left the Casino with a hundred and seventy gulden in my pocket! That is a fact, and it shows what a last remaining gulden can do
55. A thin and pallid officer with a bald head, and a huge nose and mouth, was walking about the room, holding a large package of bank-notes in his hand, staking ready money on the bank, and winning
56. He does not tell it simply, but in the form of riddles which he orders himself to guess, staking his head (one does not know why) that he will guess right
57. Nicholas submitted to him, and at one moment prayed to God as he had done on the battlefield at the bridge over the Enns, and then guessed that the card that came first to hand from the crumpled heap under the table would save him, now counted the cords on his coat and took a card with that number and tried staking the total of his losses on it, then he looked round for aid from the other players, or peered at the now cold face of Dólokhov and tried to read what was passing in his mind
