| The teetotalling Jones would not enforce laws against boozing, gambling, or prostitution. |
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| Lenore was very upset as she saw Herbert gambling away money she knew wasn't his. |
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| They're treated like pets, to be stared at, and then disposed of like a slave after massa needs to settle a gambling debt. |
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| Appropriately for the son of a bookie, his career has often been about gambling on a long game. |
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| Her eldest of three sons had died in a motorcycle accident, and she'd started gambling on the pokies. |
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| The pictures of the evangelical megachurches remind me of Las Vegas gambling palaces. |
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| In the old days the alley resounded to the click of mah-jongg tiles and fan-tan, a gambling game from which it derives its name. |
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| The lottery comes as the Cabinet plans for a new lottery for gambling on professional baseball and billiards. |
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| And gambling is no longer a serious sin when it is virtual money you win and lose. |
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| This book offers a concise and to-the-point directory for anyone who gambles on the Internet or is interested in gambling on the Internet. |
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| Cricket Australia has banned gambling on all types of cricket matches by its players, officials and other employees. |
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| The gambling checks weren't worth anything, not until you cashed them at the casino cage. |
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| It attracts men beset by alcohol, drug and gambling woes along, increasingly, with those tormented by serious mental health issues. |
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| There is a lot of gambling on the tourney, but it's the friendly, friction free kind that even novices can get involved in. |
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| To add salt to his wounds, he's besieged by 'journalists' interrogating him about his golden handshake and gambling habit. |
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| I am not affiliated with the gambling industry in any way, shape, or form, nor do I gamble myself or own any gambling related shares. |
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| Prosecutors said he also ran an illegal gambling operation that bet on professional baseball games. |
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| In the Age of Reason and Science, gambling and gallantries, of pleasure and entertainment, Casanova has it all, does it all. |
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| He's another member of the team of criminalistics, he's highly competitive, he's a talented jazz musician, and has had a gambling problem. |
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| She said she'd been reading the diary and wasn't happy that I was gambling and that it was bad. |
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| I can see why poker with friends might be pleasant, but solitary gambling in a commercial establishment gives me the creeps. |
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| Although chess, draughts, dice and gambling were forbidden, counters and dice were also found during the dig. |
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| Some people enjoy a little flutter, and see gambling as a harmless leisure activity. |
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| There are other reasons managers may find fault with office gambling pools. |
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| The vehicles were also used to transport illegal goods, such as alcohol and slot machines for illicit gambling. |
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| But to Scotland's gambling fraternity, Henry Spurway is the friendly giant making a mint from the current wave of betting mania. |
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| He dropped out of university to embark on a card-playing and gambling career, quickly shone at it, and has been doing it ever since. |
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| The men when gambling rarely spread out the shinplasters thrown on to the table, and the dummy was accepted in play. |
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| Also one of the biggest gambling days of the year with two billion dollars, we know of, bet on the game. |
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| Sometimes midlife crises result in play, like gambling or adultery, which is irrationally risky. |
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| For them, serendipity seems a bit too much like gambling, and indeed, such chance gains are even morally suspect. |
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| Local authorities will not have the right to issue blanket bans on gambling. |
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| They were acting like circus showmen, and their targets were elderly Atlantic City gambling types. |
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| A mother brings her truant son to school to be flogged for neglecting his studies in favour of gambling. |
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| He, true to form, behaves like a cad and leaves her for the gambling tables and his deserved fate. |
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| The Glorious Qur'an commands humans to abstain from intoxicants, alcohol, drugs, gambling, from dedication of stones and divination of arrows. |
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| Sic Bo is a three-dice casino gambling game that can be played in land-based casinos or online casinos. |
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| We had already squandered much of the gambling kitty playing blackjack, poker and baccarat before trying the dice. |
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| Between live poker and blackjack, I spend about 1000 hours per year at the gambling tables. |
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| Gala is gambling that blackjack and slots will compete with sharking and alcopops on the night-out menu. |
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| Several players expressed grave concerns about the toll gambling could be taking. |
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| But, at each club I have played, there has been a hard-core of gambling aficionados, eager to offer tutelage on all options to aspiring punters. |
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| I play a pit boss in the TV show and I knew nothing about gambling when I started. |
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| Men who lived in the city went there for physical training, ball games, gambling, and relaxation. |
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| The philosophy of the fund is to invest in its four favoured vice areas of defence, drink, tobacco, and gambling. |
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| Fan Tan is a Chinese gambling game based on guessing the number of beans in a pot. |
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| The impeachment was spawned by an accusation by his estranged drinking and gambling buddy. |
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| Despite their illegality, small gambling houses and large casinos continued to flourish. |
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| But Mr Briggs said safeguards would be put in place to control the ill effects of gambling. |
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| It's worth noting that one of the co-chairs of the commission is the nation's leading gambling lobbyist. |
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| I will reduce myself to penury to save you from the evils of gambling, even if it means winning millions of pounds. |
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| I am not going to sit idly by while the national gambling industry seeks to get their hooks in our state and take us down the wrong path. |
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| Problem gambling and pathological gambling are well-defined psychiatric conditions. |
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| The same schedule is in all gambling devices and it creates the pathological gambler. |
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| Psychologists and social workers define pathological gamblers as those whose gambling is persistent and out of control. |
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| To understand causes of compulsive gambling or pathological gambling, it is useful to explore causes of impulse control disorders. |
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| Tell me how can an illegal gambling syndicate operate and flourish with police as patrons? |
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| He brings him out, paints him with a coat of swank and citifies him enough to make him a star in the gambling world. |
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| Goose is much more accessible as a parlor game than Labyrinth, and it lends itself to being a gambling game as much as family entertainment. |
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| They both carried switchblades and were involved in gambling and prostitution. |
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| Records show that even on the voyage to this country the new settlers had set up gambling games and sweepstakes to help pass the time. |
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| Other co-workers and friends of his were either dancing, eating, chit-chatting, or gambling. |
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| But for many Chinese, especially those American-Chinese from US Chinatowns, gambling is almost the only reason they visit Las Vegas. |
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| And even if gambling addiction wrecks homes, it's at least better than tobacco advertising. |
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| They're gambling that the lack of an ice-cream sundae or a slice of warm apple pie won't hurt their business and may actually increase it. |
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| But all of them either overtax the processing power of the servers at the gambling sites or jam up pipelines. |
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| Payouts on slot machines are set to increase despite fears about problem gambling. |
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| Think casino gambling and you think high rollers playing high-stakes games, dropping thousands of dollars a night. |
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| State regulators on July 10 approved the MGM Grand Hotel Casino's application for Nevada's first private gambling salon for high rollers. |
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| High-roller gamblers from Asia tend to chain-smoke, which has traditionally gone hand-in-hand with drinking and gambling. |
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| He still managed to go to the casino for an evening's gambling and do a runner on his taxi fare. |
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| The physical restrictions on casinos has meant online gambling has been popular in Britain. |
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| Going with friends is pointless because essentially casino gambling is not a team sport. |
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| What will happen when we get our legal gambling casinos and the influx of people doubles and triples? |
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| He is the third cabinet member to resign, purportedly over the scandal hatched by a provincial governor linking Estrada to illegal gambling. |
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| The problem of soccer gambling has become too sticky even for local police to tackle. |
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| At odds of 16-1, and with White displaying splendid form throughout the first five days of action, it began to look like very prescient gambling. |
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| Does he immerse himself in gambling esoterica, lightly outwitting the fools who flock to the tables to give away their money? |
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| The most popular forms of gambling were raffles, state lotteries, friendly wagers, casino gambling and office pools. |
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| Local bands and live performance are becoming less common as gambling machines and DJs become more lucrative for small venue operators. |
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| The Church of Scotland may long have raised funds through raffles, tombolas and whist drives, but it disapproves of gambling. |
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| Jai alai is an incredibly fast ball game, usually played by teams, and usually the subject of intense spectator interest and gambling. |
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| We are already well on the way to being addicted to internet gambling, according to some press reports. |
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| We believe that the racing industry has not been on an even footing with gambling for a long time. |
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| They lie to friends, they steal, they have delinquent behaviour, they embezzle money, do whatever it takes in order to keep gambling. |
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| And I get a link back to that gambling site appearing in my stats, which don't get indexed by any search engine. |
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| And he was in his element in the amusements, gambling away his pocket money on the slot machines and cascades. |
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| Currently in Australia, online gambling is mostly confined to wagering, a flutter on the races or sports betting. |
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| We are told about a man whose life went to wrack and ruin because of his gambling. |
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| In the brothel and nightclub strip, crime bosses got the green light to organise prostitution and illegal gambling rackets. |
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| In California, gambling dens and grog shops were constructed in the midst of the cabins of the miners. |
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| He recently confessed to betraying his friends to fuel his drug and gambling addictions, running up huge debts in the process. |
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| Critics have claimed the explosion of new casinos could lead to a rise in addiction to gambling. |
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| As usual, nobody seems to know where the words originated, except that they both grew out of gambling, the race track and general raffishness. |
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| As already stated, the placing of bets and payment of winnings form the nucleus of the gambling activity. |
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| He would walk through the gambling dens, tenement houses, grog shops and houses of prostitution located on the estate. |
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| The same mood stabilizers that help control manic depression also help control pathologic gambling, a preliminary study finds. |
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| Apparently, gambling, whoring, eating and walking around looking at Portuguese colonial ruins were the things to do then as well. |
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| There are possible genetic bases to compulsive shopping and gambling, drinking, drug use, and aggressiveness. |
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| State laws vary widely, with some allowing specific forms of gambling within their borders. |
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| The chipmaker is gambling there will still be room in the marketplace by 2005 for cheap, larger formats like rear projection. |
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| He was being investigated on suspicion of vice, gambling, crimes of violence, loan sharking and money laundering. |
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| He knew the locations of the sly groggeries, brothels, bookie outlets, and gambling and booze dens. |
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| Martin told the FBI the money came from gambling winnings and was lent to the players. |
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| Every new participant is in truth gambling on the scheme continuing long enough for him to recover his money and, he hopes, make a profit. |
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| And I will do my best to lead the elders of our church from accepting any money offered to this church from the proceeds of gambling. |
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| Some say that she killed herself because she could not take her husband's deeds like gambling and womanizing so she just shot herself one night. |
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| Angry, he went back to Moscow and once again engaged in a life of revelry, drinking, gambling and womanizing. |
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| Her husband Eric, once a hotshot director, now spends his days gambling, womanizing, and lying to Lisa. |
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| James, he argues, never gave a red cent to the poor, spending it instead on gambling, booze and loose women. |
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| I shall refer to the clauses that deal with the age-limits in various gambling organisations. |
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| The movie takes place in the social context of fast money, smart-set villains, gilded gambling houses, and late-night powder snorting. |
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| Betfair, the internet betting exchange, has revolutionised the world of gambling by allowing punters to wager on horses not winning. |
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| Violations of drug laws and gambling laws were the two most prevalent types of offenses investigated through communications intercepts. |
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| His accuser is a former drinking and gambling mate, whose allegations have laid him open to prosecution. |
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| So I was particularly impressed with John O'Farrell's lampoon of the new gambling laws in today's Guardian. |
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| The comedy is set in a Northern English pub with the gambling landlord and bubbly landlady playing host to an eclectic mix of their regulars. |
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| First time we met we talked gambling, every time we talk we discuss punts, so how is it going? |
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| They also fear wall-to-wall gambling machines inside and empty shops being transformed into amusements if the scheme goes ahead. |
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| He almost becomes one of the family, cheerfully going out gambling with her dopey, reprobate nephew. |
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| Its panoply of bars, bordellos, and gambling dens made the resort both popular and prosperous. |
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| Teenagers opposed to Government plans to relax laws on gambling have welcomed a proposed ban on slot machines in unlicensed premises. |
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| Forbes would list some if their core business were not gambling and bookmaking. |
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| When not losing money in seedy gambling dens or making wisecracks about chaos theory, he's shooting heroin. |
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| Otherwise, the come-out roll becomes the point and you are gambling on whether the shooter will subsequently throw the point or a seven first. |
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| His conclusion leans on, rather than derives from, the discussion of gambling that precedes it. |
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| What is to prevent Australians from gambling with British bookmakers and internet casinos? |
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| Samantha Leigh, mitigating, said he had taken the money to pay gambling debts. |
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| The next thing you know, little league games will be marred by sports betting, immersed in the dark underbelly of gambling. |
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| State and territory governments had adopted a relatively liberal approach to the legalisation of internet gambling. |
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| Arkansans defeated the plan to create a state lottery and legalize casino gambling in six counties. |
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| Of course, if gambling in groups doesn't appeal to your reticent nature, most of these games are also available in the single player mode. |
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| Their bleating about their efforts regarding problem gambling are absolutely, completely and utterly, despicably hypocritical. |
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| The commission has been looking into a myriad of claims centring on the fixing of races, bribery and gambling dens. |
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| Away from flash boats and cars, the other magnetic attraction of Monte Carlo is gambling. |
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| To be completed by next July, it will be the largest gambling casino along the boardwalk of Atlantic City. |
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| I figured this was his dementedly cryptic way of letting me know he was there to settle my gambling debt. |
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| Yesterday, it was no longer in place but another one on the same boarding, advertising an internet gambling service, had been painted over. |
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| Some states originally allowed gambling only on boats that were not anchored in harbors, while gambling is now is allowed on shore. |
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| He gladly joins Zatoichi in pursuit of their mutual passion for dice gambling. |
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| I really knew nothing about gambling until I started work on the show, I did not even know how to shuffle a deck of cards. |
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| I have no problem with the idea of gambling on a precociously talented teenager. |
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| In this country there has always been something a little amateurish about gambling. |
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| By the 1820s, though, the adjective also conjured nonathletic activities such as gambling, drinking, whoring, fire fighting, or simply loafing. |
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| Most of my clients will get into trouble by gambling the money they need to live on, go to a loan shark, then they gamble that. |
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| The international gambling industry has hired an army of lobbyists to stack the odds in its favour. |
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| Smoking, drinking, gambling have become the order of the day for these youth. |
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| For one, the gambling game at the end of each stage is made more of a gamble by being able to wager the coins you've collected through a level. |
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| Players at the hotel's casino can choose from four gambling tables, three of them for card games and one for roulette. |
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| At the same time, the guy in charge of your mortgage was gambling on growth every year, too. |
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| We can save a small fortune by simply dropping bad habits like smoking, drinking and gambling. |
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| Card games and mah-jongg, a Chinese game similar to rummy that is played with ivory tiles, regularly involve gambling. |
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| The German government was thus gambling on British neutrality, and in July 1914 this seemed a reasonable bet. |
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| Betting on horse racing, lotteries and raffles have long been a recognised way of gambling in New Zealand. |
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| The gambling empire rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars each year from sweepstakes, lotteries and of late, poker machines. |
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| The availability of lotteries and casino gambling, as well as gaming machines, has expanded dramatically worldwide. |
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| Widespread participation in lotteries and casino gambling reveals how poorly the public understands the laws of probability. |
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| Gambling has always been a big business and as more states adopt lotteries and permit casino gambling it gets even bigger every year. |
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| I don't play the lotto and I avoid gambling at all costs because I'm a risk-taker by nature. |
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| Police were also aware that the victim was addicted to gambling on football, and there was an extra issue of a love affair. |
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| Maybe we are gambling with our ecosystem in a game of Russian roulette that will lead to environmental Armageddon. |
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| Really high-rollers prefer to place their bets in quieter private gambling rooms, usually trying their luck at baccarat. |
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| As in the United States, gambling in Canada is hugely lucrative big business. |
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| The party supported distributing pokie machine money in local communities, but wanted some set aside for a central fund to aid problem gambling. |
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| Or take to relatively less harmful habits like drinking, smoking and gambling. |
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| It was designed not as a gambling arena, it was designed as insurance against the possibility you will not have enough savings. |
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| At his trial, it was stated that he was tempted to act as a drugs mule to help feed his huge gambling habit. |
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| Financial speculators, who are gambling on more chaos in the Middle East, are also pushing up prices. |
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| The government has closed thousands of underground betting parlors that were defying the long-standing official ban on gambling. |
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| We found problem gamblers were able to shift their intense focus away from the gambling task. |
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| Squeezed by rivals in their own market, British media moguls are gambling on winning new sales here. |
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| Although I'm generally undecided about legalizing gambling, I strongly support legalizing poker, e.g. California. |
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| I really got into gambling in a big way, and ended up playing blackjack with some pretty scary people, but it was a riot. |
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| To reinforce this, the games were played with teetotums, rather than dice which were associated with gambling. |
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| We should not do a back-room deal after all the select committee's deliberations and considerations said no to interactive gambling. |
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| There is no question that corrupt policemen protected tenderloin brothels and gambling dens. |
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| However, I have noticed an uncanny ability to give good luck to those who are gambling. |
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| And although he may have curbed his gambling, Jimmy still likes playing the odd long shot on the green baize. |
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| Before casinos opened in Connecticut, the 35-acre Wonderland was the mother ship of gambling in New England. |
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| About that funny story, we were in Las Vegas and were gambling. |
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| His reputation has been damaged by innuendos about his drinking and gambling. |
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| We got involved with casino gambling, and there was never any accusation of doing anything wrong. |
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| He could, however, be a racketeer specializing in bookmaking, gambling, drug dealing, and assorted other crime. |
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| The first real guitar I had, Mr. cham Fields, who owned a roadhouse, gambling house, and W. C. Handy gave it to me. |
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| A casino is out of the question, as are any other new forms of gambling. |
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| But quibbling aside, it is clear the company's future is in gambling. |
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| They are enjoying unprecedented wealth, earning easy money from the lucrative gambling trade which now funds their previously impoverished communities. |
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| But the other side of the coin would be, inevitably, the flowering of crime and corruption around the gambling business. |
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| And in the end, the gambling theater is exploded and set afire. |
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| One further accused her of human rights violations, corruption and, together with her family, of receiving kickbacks from illegal gambling operators. |
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| Drinking, gambling and womanising sometimes landed him in trouble. |
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| When our 17-member group checked in to the Hotel Lisboa, our passports were xeroxed as a precaution the government has adopted against gambling with public money. |
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| Promotional reps for beer companies and sports gambling schemes love to come to the Bomber to promote their corporate agendas by giving away free stuff. |
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| In other words, if you opt to take a discount, you're gambling that if rates do climb, they only increase by a little so that you still beat the fixed offers. |
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| Controlling for these and other variables, gambling addiction was found to be a significant discriminator between problem and non-problem gamblers. |
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| I doubt that you would sanction drinking and gambling on such a scale, but there you are as large as life, directly above the club's reception desk. |
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| As the international trade group for the interactive gambling industry, we have spent the past six years promoting rigorous government regulation of our industry. |
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| It's what Shane and his rogues' gallery of gambling mates build their doomed bookmaking business on, and it's a constant presence among the film's incidental characters. |
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| However, visits to arcades on piers or family amusement centres suggest that this form of gambling is no longer conducted within a family environment. |
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| To stop the rot, gambling was legalized in 1976 as a means of attracting new visitors and providing resources for urban renewal and associated uplift. |
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| By joining a private equity firm, the former Florida governor and 2016 hopeful is gambling with his reputation. |
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| In recent years, a slew of online gambling companies have relocated from the United Kingdom to Gibraltar to enjoy the lower taxes. |
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| The former ruck rover said gambling was part of Australian culture. |
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| Now the art of gambling is lost on most, and I don't claim to be an expert, but there are three common strategies that people will use, with varying success. |
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| He became a reporter for a small newspaper in Helena, and later, when he was killed, it was probably over gambling debts. |
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| Rob, who graduated 117th in his class at medical school, is an in-house sawbones with a penthouse suite, a gambling habit, and an insufferable smirk. |
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| Between 1825 and 1865, however, he wins recognition among aristocrats by amassing a fortune from gambling and selling cotton and marrying into a prominent family. |
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| Like alcoholics, gambling addicts are often secretive, irritable, and unable to cut back. |
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| As the level of gambling increases, so does problem gambling that cannot possibly be avoided or dealt with by the pusillanimous measures in the bill. |
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| Max von Sydow gives a coolly Mephistophelean performance as Sam, the dapper, expatriate owner of a neon-lit gambling joint in the middle of a desert. |
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| The couple say they got into trouble when a woman and her Jamaican boyfriend gave them tokens for gambling machines in a casino during the holiday. |
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| Father Peter is a likable character who seems to enjoy fishing and gambling more than sermonizing, though he has some pragmatic, down to earth advice for those who need it. |
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| The problem is that it is a lot easier and faster to log on to a gambling web site or do off-site betting on track races than to go to an amusement park. |
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| From the 1930s the states in turn legalised state lotteries and off-course betting on horse races, and introduced casinos for continuous gambling. |
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| The Internet is as much to blame for the growth in gambling as more traditional establishments such as bricks-and mortar casinos, betting shops and bingo halls. |
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| This is serious gambling which often causes assaults and killing among hosts and bettors when bettors win huge amounts that hosts are unable to pay. |
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| Not only does he appropriate the customary male garb of the early 1860s, but additionally appropriates the gendered-male, socially transgressive act of gambling. |
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| News that a gambling overhaul could be shelved should prompt Blackpool Council to seek new family attractions for key sites, casino opponents claimed this week. |
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| Jordan also became famous off the court, both for his gambling and for tumult in his personal life. |
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| A bunch of gambling chips beat out being the back spoon in bed with Ms. mol? |
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| Revelations pertaining to renowned footballers accruing exorbitant gambling debts have reopened the debate over players and their relationships with turf accountants. |
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| Officers encouraged the army to ban alcohol and gambling and to provide band concerts, bowling alleys, billiard tables, and other wholesome activities. |
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| As you may already know, I work on my Heart Smarts goodwill program full time, helping people fight off vices that plague their lives, like gambling and genocide. |
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| Internet gambling, which already occurs in New Zealand, cannot be prevented without cutting New Zealand off electronically from the rest of the world. |
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| Despite my fear, I have jumped out of planes, bungeed over gambling towns, scaled buildings without ropes, and abseiled from the odd mountain here and there. |
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| He lives with and sponges off his brother and sister-in-law, surviving on free samples at the supermarket, and gambling away what little money he has. |
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| There Jackson became a cowardly deserter sponging off the martial generosity of Uncle Sam, a man who betrayed his comrades and never paid his gambling debts. |
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| The ridotto was the first gambling locale in Europe, for hundreds of years a symbol of Venetian decadence. |
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| In a closed meeting, he stuck it to the Internet gambling site's rep and lawyer, by threatening to go to the press with the fact they let a minor run up so much debt. |
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| The reason for a with profits fund to be more heavily invested in shares than in fixed interest stocks is not a product of caprice or thoughtless gambling. |
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| Saloons, cathouses and gambling establishments were the norm. |
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| Nevada can legalize most gambling, and other states can ban it outright. |
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| If you're feeling lucky, and are ready for a bit of casino action, try a night out with the high rollers at one of our sophisticated gambling spots. |
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| From her conversation with Sylvia, Bob gathered that Caroline spent her evenings at high-toned discotheques and gambling clubs, her days recuperating. |
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| Someone sitting at a computer terminal charging bets to a credit card account is a case in point but this phenomenon is not limited to gambling on the internet. |
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| The author notes that Chinatowns were periodically the theatre of feuds among Chinese gangs competing for the control of gambling and prostitution. |
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| Nine years of extravagance, fair-weather friends, a stock market crash, a paternity suit and a devastating gambling addiction have left the 38-year-old man nearly penniless. |
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| Every day we don't have expanded gambling, gaming dollars are going to other states and Pennsylvanians who desperately want property tax relief aren't getting it. |
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| If not detected and treated early, compulsive gambling might lead to estrangement from family and friends as well as financial and legal difficulties. |
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| How can they possibly be willing to insure me against gambling losses? |
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| The streets were filled with alehouses, gambling dens and brothels, and the public was entertained by street performers, playhouses, and spectacles such as bear baiting. |
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| And the gambling, whether by charities or not, was illegal thanks to a plenitude of anti-gambling legislation originating from pious groups to the south. |
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| Where else, for example, could they get their daily gambling fix? |
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| Despite police claims that they have regularly conducted raids to cleanse the city of gambling dens and other gaming sites, most have continued to flourish across the capital. |
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| Fancy a big-time flutter in the gambling capital of the world? |
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| The occasional flutter on the National Lottery does no real harm to individuals but, as with all gambling, it damages our long-term financial future. |
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| I really wanted to see the nooks and crannies of underworld gambling. |
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| At five, her father taught her how to throw craps, the gambling dice game. |
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| During these months, especially at the beginning, there was a good deal of fraternization between the two sides, complete with competitions, gambling, and dinners. |
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| The documentary was surprisingly upbeat for subject matters that included his chronic gambling and alcoholism, as well as a dalliance with suicide. |
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| One aspect of gambling that few people are aware of is that about one in five New Zealanders who regularly gamble on gaming machines have a gambling problem. |
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| Investors began gambling on future returns and more patterns emerged. |
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| Peter is gambling on the fact that he will head straight on up the track. |
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| His research interests include the treatment of pathological gambling, gambling-related cognitive psychopathology, and concurrent disorders among gamblers. |
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| And in response to Government proposals to deregulate the gaming industry it welcomes plans to increase the age limit on certain forms of gambling. |
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| And let's not even get into the allegations of wife-beating, the disappearing acts and the gambling sprees that have left him, more than once, on the precipice of bankruptcy. |
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| The town is another of his enthusiasms, but what is there to do there at night other than drinking, dining, gambling or checking over your ski gear? |
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| Help to the French lady comes in the form of a carefree auto driver who wants to flee the town to escape gambling dons who are after him to recover their money. |
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| A consequence of his broken marriage was the apparent attempt by his ex-wife to estrange his son from him, hence his over-indulgence of Carl's gambling habits. |
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| Again, playing dreidel for money is not the same as gambling in a casino. |
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| Sabbatarianism, opposition to gambling, early closing of hotels and prohibition of alcohol are sometimes said to be Scottish influences. |
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| And every night now he played pontoon, that game of the Tommies, with Mrs Bolton, gambling with sixpences. |
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| Despite the generous supply and quality of food, some prisoners died of starvation after gambling away their rations. |
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| A CITY banker who funded his gambling addiction with crooked insider dealing was jailed for five years yesterday. |
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| Drinking and gambling were flirtings with the devil, or giving over to him entirely. So was card-playing. |
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| These camps were filled with drinking, gambling and watching fistfights as forms of recreation. |
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| A major part of horse racing's economic importance lies in the gambling associated with it. |
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| With the opening of the Sands Macao, in 2004 and Wynn Macau in 2006, gambling revenues from Macau's casinos grew considerably prosperous. |
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| In the evenings entrepreneurs provided dancing, casino gambling and Voodoo shows. |
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| He enjoyed gambling, in particular at backgammon, and was an enthusiastic hunter, even by medieval standards. |
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| Pairs of walnuts are sometimes sold in their green husks for a form of gambling known as du he tao. |
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| Soldiers had an intense passion for gambling, reaching such excesses that troops would often wager their own uniforms. |
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| Despite the setbacks, Cornwallis proceeded to advance into North Carolina, gambling that he would receive substantial Loyalist support. |
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| Identification indicating age is commonly required to purchase alcohol and tobacco and to enter nightclubs and gambling venues. |
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| The Methodist Convention in 1887 recommended that chapels regard theatrical activity as an immoral practice on a par with gambling. |
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| Bond's tastes are also often taken from Fleming's own as was his behaviour, with Bond's love of golf and gambling mirroring Fleming's own. |
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| Today Gibraltar's economy is based largely on tourism, online gambling, financial services, and shipping. |
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| In spite of this, Cornwallis decided to proceed, gambling that he would receive substantial Loyalist support. |
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| Clifford became extremely wealthy through his buccaneering, but lost most of his money gambling on horse races. |
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| At many horse races, there is a gambling station, where gamblers can stake money on a horse. |
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| Within and only within the turf clubs, betting on horse racing is a legal form of gambling. |
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| In Malaysia, horse racing was introduced during the British colonial era and remains to the present day as a gambling activity. |
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| As Hong Kong and Macau are Special Administrative Region, they're allowed to exemption from ban of gambling on mainland China. |
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| The industry was severely limited during the Communist era, when gambling, the major source of funding, was made illegal. |
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| Simulcast betting exists across state lines with minimal oversight except the companies involved through legalized parimutuel gambling. |
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| In October 2005, Eubank was appointed as the first ambassador for gambling charity GamCare, to support and encourage responsible gambling. |
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| Having four wives, a gambling habit and a susceptibility to confidence tricksters, he did not hold on to the money he made. |
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| Like horse racing, it is popular to bet on the greyhound races as a form of parimutuel gambling. |
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| We position gambling as a mortal sin, but cheating as no sin or a venial sin because of its newly redefined meaning. |
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| Outlawed in England and much of the United States, prizefights were often held at gambling venues and broken up by police. |
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| While on the gambling commission, one of his recommendations, ignored at the time, was for a national lottery. |
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| It is inextricably associated with gambling, where in certain events, stakes can become very high. |
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| Jean Baptiste, Vicomte du Barre took over number 8 in 1778 and hosted parties and gambling. |
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| After Clayton's death, the estate passed to relatives and was soon lost at gambling. |
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| The beauty of a sublease situation that eventually involves lease termination is that it isn't really a gambling venture. |
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| Father of three Jack Somal, will fly out to the gambling capital of the world in May to take part in the finals of a major poker tournament. |
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| During gambling games, people often misperceive their chances of winning due to a number of errors of thinking called cognitive distortions. |
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| It gets more difficult because there's a list of things,'' said Bill Saum, the NCAA's director of agent, gambling and amateurism activities. |
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| A PILOT scheme helping gambling addicts to exclude themselves from betting shops is to be expanded. |
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| In fact, Bulger's lawyers conceded he ran a criminal enterprise that raked in millions through drugs, gambling and loansharking. |
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