| He usually gambled sums of money between five and one hundred dollars, bottles of champagne, pairs of boots, or new hats. |
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| It was suggested to him that he had gambled the money away on poker machines at the hotel. |
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| In the mid-1980s, he gambled his export-quota profits on property and stock. |
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| He has gambled on a team that he hopes will result in his third general election win. |
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| The social democrats gambled on bourgeois democracy and the stability of capitalism. |
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| In the first race he gambled on dry tyres on a damp track in the hope that conditions would improve. |
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| The prime minister has once again gambled on an explosive acceleration in economic growth that has yet to materialise. |
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| Kids and teenagers have always gambled, whether at marbles or flipping baseball cards. |
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| Each auction house has gambled millions of dollars guaranteeing owners minimum prices, whether their artworks sell or not. |
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| He had gambled away his licensed taxi as a result of his increasing debt and it was time to pay the debts. |
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| Frank Gorshin and Shirley Jones play a con artist couple who have gambled and grifted their way into the good life. |
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| Over the years he has gambled, drunk, womanised and harassed his way into the headlines. |
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| Mind you chips, not the edible kind, were the order of the night as the punters gambled like crazy to make their fortune. |
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| It has gambled on ventures elsewhere in the world to get a bigger share of the luxury end of the market. |
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| They gambled on a do-or-die mission over the final ten minutes in a late bid to rescue themselves. |
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| We found that our three probable pathological gamblers usually gambled with family and close friends. |
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| After their bowling inadequacies were exposed earlier in the series, Australia gambled this time by dropping a batsman. |
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| They milled about, some slept, some ate, others played cards or gambled on games of dice. |
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| Until about 1830, many Americans gambled in taverns and at cockfights, while gentlemen bet on horse races. |
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| Washington gambled on a two-part plan that required luck and perfect timing. |
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| These men attended and enjoyed spectator sports, bet on prize fights and wrestling matches, and gambled at poker, blackjack, and dice. |
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| The actor gambled on playing one of the film's rogues' gallery of supporting players. |
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| This was big money, bigger than he had ever gambled with before and the rush was thrilling. |
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| What about the stress it causes to his partner and family when he has gambled away the housekeeping money! |
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| This beautiful and newly renovated hotel was the palatial home of a merchant who in 1898 gambled the house away in a game of cards. |
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| The 50-year-old dog trainer and behaviour counsellor has gambled her future on the venture. |
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| Only one underage person in our sample gambled regularly in New Zealand casinos. |
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| As in the earlier study, many of them were underage when they gambled illegally in casinos. |
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| France 2, a state-owned channel, broadcasts its news at the same time, and gambled on his resigning. |
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| Like a participant in a high-stakes poker game, she gambled big and she lost big. |
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| Instead, I'd gambled all my sweetness only to find out I was disposable. |
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| Last year, he gambled with crossover success and fell flat on his face. |
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| An exhaustive study convinced everyone except he that he had gambled on the game, gambled on the Reds and violated the only unbreakable moral code of the sport. |
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| Approximately 85 percent of American adults report having gambled at some point in their lives, and about 60 percent say they've gambled at least once in the past year. |
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| When he entices her to elope with him she steals the money necessary for the elopement, only to find that he does not keep his appointment, having gambled the money away. |
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| He also invested millions in a new headquarters, and gambled that the party could mount a challenge to the GOP's three decades of dominating fundraising. |
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| Some have gambled on the dumping grounds stake for meanly financial reasons. |
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| An unpretentious woman, she ate heartily, gambled, rouged her face lavishly, and took snuff. |
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| While they lose their jobs, most of the fat cats who gambled with other people's money will walk away from the wreckage. |
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| Rather, it gambled the certainty of accelerated rundown against the chance of stopping that assault in its tracks. |
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| This plan offers an opportunity and should not be gambled away due to false or inadequate information. |
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| Steve, who has gambled his way into serious debt, wants to sell the family home to pay some of it off. |
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| We want to correct a mistake that was not made by workers who might have gambled their money away, or made bad investments. |
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| We ordered the vaccine late and we gambled on when a second wave would come. |
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| It was the arrogance of power which gambled with the acceptance of European unification by our citizens. |
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| Yet, it had gambled on continued growth and, with the crop failure of 1857, was hit hard by imprudent lending practices. |
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| Turner gambled on his new popularity as leader and called an early election. |
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| He gambled more and more heavily and, as a result, incurred an enormous debt. |
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| Believing that they were in serious trouble over their protest, these officers gambled all on a military coup. |
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| Have you ever gambled in order to pay off debts or solve other financial difficulties? |
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| If you have ever gambled at a casino, you could say that the odds of winning are predisposed in favor of the casino. |
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| They gambled everything to lead independent lives, but yesterday the brave conjoined twins whose plight has gripped the world for months lost everything. |
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| Similarly, in 1995, many firms in the Australian clothing industry gambled on a season of clothing in shades of apple green, which consumers never adopted. |
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| He has gambled that problems would be solved by throwing money at them, but failed to show the political courage required to tackle chronic problems. |
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| He said the average customers were men who gambled at weekends, dispelling the popular myth that housewives were behind the rise in the popularity of poker. |
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| He still drank, smoked, gambled and played snooker for money. |
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| But for the time being Credit Suisse has other problems, and must recoup the 4 billion that it gambled away on the American sub-prime market from some other source. |
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| They gambled with as much reckless abandon as they flew their airplanes. They knew they might buy the farm tomorrow. |
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| Large amounts of money are gambled during Cheltenham Festival week, with hundreds of millions of pounds being bet over the week. |
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| When he learnt that Louis had divided his army, William Marshal gambled on defeating the rebels in a single battle. |
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| Attempting to surprise the invading Byzantines, Totila gambled with his forces at Taginaei, where he was slain. |
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| My uncle gambled away his fortune, and now he hardly has a penny to his name. |
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| For years, Wall Street fat cats raked in multimillion-dollar salaries and bonuses as they gambled their banks' money on various speculative schemes, most recently on the U. S. housing market. |
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| If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you have gambled. |
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| In the past, we gambled with the idea that investment, structure and materials were the key factors to the success or failure of education systems. |
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| Postings targeting Aboriginal Canadians portrayed them as non-contributing persons, who abused alcohol, gambled excessively, and were promiscuous, poor, illiterate and violent. |
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| Rather, they gambled that with the tight international oil market and America stuck in Iraq they would be protected from any effective international response. |
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| The Australian started in 5th position on the grid, and gambled on a change of tyres at the beginning of the race, the only pretender to the title to do so, while the Safety Car was deployed. |
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| When people had gambled and lost or had lost in an argument, they would go to him to scare the other party and sometimes get the money or the land back. |
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| They gambled, and they lost. Moral turpitude is not a defence. |
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| We gambled on the race set-up to try and fix the problems with braking stability from practice but it didn't work, the rear wheel was still bouncing too much. |
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| They sang along at the music hall, fancied their pigeons, gambled on horse racing, and took the family to Blackpool in summer. |
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| The HDP gambled on breaking the built-in disadvantage and triumphed. |
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| The Gaviria government has gambled it can solve the politically motivated violence-the narcoterrorism-of the Medellin cartel by compromising established counter-terrorism principles. |
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| Her lawyers argued that signs of her addiction were apparent both through how much she gambled in the period leading up to that evening, on the evening itself, and by what she said. |
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| Northumberland took no action when signalled to assist his king, so Richard gambled everything on a charge across the battlefield to kill Henry and end the fight. |
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| Hundreds of millions of pounds are gambled on these festivals. |
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| For the 1994 season, the team gambled on success with Mugen Honda engines. |
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