| This explicit entrustment to the Security Council to enforce the ruling of the World Court raises high stakes for the international legal system. |
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| We find this an opportune time to write this piece as high stakes testing currently looms large over schools, teachers, and students. |
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| I don't think I've ever met a successful man who didn't take risks or didn't gamble for high stakes. |
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| You are 65, but you played for high stakes over several years, and eventually you lost. |
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| Tomorrow, it's a high stakes game of chess where a checkmate means you might be checked out of Hollywood. |
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| If you work at the high stakes tables you get a classy vest and a starched white collar. |
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| Combat is one of the many areas where the game shines, not least because of the high stakes and unbearable tension that permadeath creates. |
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| The high stakes make the case for profiling stronger here than in routine drug interdiction stops on highways. |
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| It focuses brilliantly on political intrigue and high stakes and assassins and crumbling empires. |
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| Both, he reckons, are houses where we gamble for high stakes, and with high hopes. |
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| Soon enough, the gang is all together and they're playing a game of high stakes poker. |
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| Quite right too, according to Philip Van Munching: business is a grand game, with deliriously high stakes. |
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| Perhaps better geopolitical examples are mahjong in Asia and poker in the West: both are skilful and involve high stakes. |
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| Indeed, some deputies had only a superficial knowledge about the debt and the high stakes involved. |
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| The mother of five frantically jumps from one argument to the next as if playing a high stakes game of catchphrase. |
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| The picture roars to life intermittently during these skilled performances, yet despite its high stakes tale of revenge and killings, the film fails to fully engage. |
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| It will go to the shia majority and is the subject of an ongoing struggle with very high stakes indeed. |
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| Nevertheless, many boxers find it hard to walk away from the high wire act of high stakes professional boxing. |
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| A creature of Las Vegas, he knows not to overplay his hand in this high stakes game. |
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| And in North Korea, predicting low fronts brings with it similarly high stakes. |
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| With the high stakes involved, we are confident that all involved will play their part. |
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| Consequently, OSCE exams must have a sufficient number of stations to provide adequate reliability for high stakes exams. |
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| In consideration of these high stakes, it would be a gross error for the economy and the society to allow their competitiveness to eke away. |
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| At the same time, they risk to create tension and possible violence given the high stakes of the winner-take-all approach. |
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| All the time, Milosevic was advancing his strategy of ethnic cleansing while we were finding out the costs of our high stakes bluffing. |
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| Victory in this high prestige and high stakes duel would only be within reach of the team which pushed the limit in all respects. |
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| Those perceived high stakes are the reason that key issues have remained unresolved for five years and why each side has clung tenaciously to its position. |
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| Perceptions are a high stakes game in a region that has struggled for decades to shed its reputation centred on war, corruption, poverty and disease. |
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| The crowd at least raised no objections since, from the Manchester City perspective, unfamiliarly high stakes held enough novelty to make up for the mediocrity. |
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| Some 750,000 on strike and playing for unbelievably high stakes, a government pledged to complete unfinished Tory business – and still, a deathly cultural quiet. |
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| People say children are overassessed but that's because they are doing lots of high stakes tests which means high pressure. |
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| A significant gap currently exists between the tools available and the actual needs of producers in a high stakes market where safety is critical. |
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| For parties negotiating high stakes cross-border transactions, the choice of the law governing their contract is likely to be an important factor in the negotiations. |
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| Other countries are recognizing the high stakes involved. |
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| Experience with high stakes assessment in the United States has exposed the negative consequences of misusing centralised testing to make scholastic decisions about individual students. |
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| An interdepartmental working group successfully prepared a negotiating position in the face of very high stakes, uncertain impacts, and conflicting perspectives. |
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