Risky rats gambled on the iffier lever more than half the time.
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People took a gamble on Facebook before it went public; they gambled on Square.
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It is among the most watched and most gambled-on sporting events of the year.
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Mr. Trump also gambled on two dynamics that were already altering the evangelical-Republican relationship.
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But then NJoy gambled on an e-cigarette that looked virtually identical to a cigarette.
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He gambled on a switch to Premier League rivals Chelsea, in search of playing time.
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He gambled on a personal meeting with President Trump at the G20 meeting in Buenos Aires.
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Syriza gambled on a threat of Greek secession when Greece already faced the risk of expulsion.
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Instead, he gambled on splitting the case into two trial tracks, in two demographically different courts.
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The Conservative party under Theresa May gambled on a snap election to deliver a "mandate for Brexit".
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He had gambled on the hope that the contents of this flashcard would serve him as collateral.
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We wanted to explore a quieter corner of Lesbos and gambled on Plomari on the southern coast.
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He gambled on gaining the required 113 votes in the 225-seat parliament to validate Mr Rajapaksa's appointment.
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Etihad gambled on foreign investments because it needed to beef up its organic growth with non-organic feed.
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As U.S.-led coalition forces are withdrawn, the stability of Iraq is gambled on relying upon Baghdad's strength.
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The signs began to emerge in the mid-1990s, as Republicans in Congress gambled on a government shutdown.
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Busch, who had gambled on fuel and tires, appeared to have the advantage as the final stretch approached.
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The Federal Reserve gambled on what's known as quantitative easing in order to help the housing market recover.
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So he gambled on a massive drive, which swerved through the pines, over a creek and into a shrub.
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If you gambled on women's college basketball on Wednesday night, and you had Bluefield State plus 393, you lost.
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He gambled on baseball as a player and a manager, and that was reckless and deserving of a hard thwack.
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Afterwards he said the bone was actually still 'broken' and that he had gambled on himself to win a medal.
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Indeed, the nomination of Neil Gorsuch two days ago was a huge win for conservative voters who gambled on Trump.
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Studios have not gambled on a major release on a super-heroine since Twentieth Century Fox's "Elektra" and Warner Bros.
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Koenning didn't get Clemson's top job when Phillips gambled on the 38-year-old wide receivers coach to replace Bowden.
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Some noted that they had gambled on sporting events long before Thursday, but they were relieved the process was now legal.
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It gambled on that continuing demand, investing in new hubs and focus cities, upgraded terminal buildings and airport infrastructure, and more.
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"He gambled on successfully killing his wife and being able to hide her body and get away with murder," he said.
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But around the same time, Hewlett-Packard (HPE) gambled on enterprise services, which was a big growth market 10 years ago.
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With the G6, LG is expected to completely move away from the modular strategy it gambled on with the G5 in 2016.
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If they didn't, then that suggests they gambled on dissembling the truth in the hope that nobody besides Jacobs could contradict them.
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Twitter has gambled on Muzik in the hopes of creating another hardware avenue of engagement that's not your phone, tablet or computer.
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" Greenberg, she tweeted, left AIG before the bailout but not before running the company "as it recklessly gambled on mortgage-backed securities.
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Indeed, the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch as a Supreme Court justice was a huge win for conservative voters who gambled on Trump.
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BYU gambled on fourth-and-a-foot from its own 383 with 2:17 left, and Romney dove ahead for the first down.
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Media coverage across the U.K. has been unanimous: Prime Minister Theresa May has gambled on her government's future and it has badly backfired.
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In January, Madrid gambled on ousting the experienced coach Rafael Benítez and appointing Zinedine Zidane, an iconic former player but an untested coach.
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Rajoy had gambled on unionist parties taking control of Catalonia's regional government, which he sacked in October for illegally pursuing independence from Spain.
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Instead, Pelosi gambled on their anxiety, prioritizing a baffling array of low-priority issues ahead of the life-or-death matters troubling Americans.
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But the interests of corporations, large and small, that gambled on these products cannot trump the health and safety of an entire generation.
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I gambled on the actors who had never been in anything, telling a story like this, and making a movie under these conditions.
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Detroit gambled on fourth-and-goal from the 2 on its next possession and got rewarded as Stafford hit Jones with a scoring pass.
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Second, if a sport has been gambled on, it's plausible that match-fixing can or already has occurred on some level, at some time.
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I gambled on the wafer, which was a crumbly savory cookie made from black currants and dried onions and brushed with black currant jam.
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A year later, the partners gambled on a new federal court rule that facilitated class-action suits by one plaintiff on behalf of many.
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Rouhani gambled on attracting foreign investment to help raise living standards but a raft of deals including plane purchases have been already been delayed.
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Britain's relationship with Europe has been a toxic issue for the Conservatives for years, which is why Mr. Cameron gambled on a referendum — and lost.
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Booker, like his fellow Generation X candidates, Castro and Beto O'Rourke, gambled on the belief that campaign 2020 would witness a generational shift in leadership.
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So it looks somewhat like Broadcom gambled on an end-run around regulators, and when that failed, was left holding the bag on the relocation anyways.
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The MLB instituted a lifetime ban against Rose in 1989 amid accusations that he gambled on baseball games while he played for and managed the Cincinnati Reds.
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Here's the 30,000-foot view: the Texans had a problem at quarterback, and they gambled on who they thought was the best logical solution to fix it.
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One Irish betting site thinks Trump is so sure to lose that it paid out $1.1 million to people who gambled on Clinton three weeks before Election Day.
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The former British Prime Minister, David Cameron, gambled on settling a 40-year feud within the Conservative Party over membership of the European Union with last June's referendum.
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And after he signed a maximum contract extension, Wiggins barely qualified as the third-wheel on a good team, which is what the Timberwolves gambled on him to immediately be.
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It was a rough place — men sold drugs on the street and gambled on tables at the club across from their apartment — but no one considered it unsafe for kids.
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Ahn gambled on high turnout from his base, fired up to see the first Korean-American in Congress in more than 85033 years, to outperform the district's large Latino population.
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On Thursday Roberts summed up the reputation Taylor brought to spring training this season: "a fringy, 4-A player" who had gambled on a swing change to save his career.
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When Mexico gambled on ending decades of state control of its energy industry, officials said they hoped the move would promote investment and give the country access to technical expertise.
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The betting rules would famously come into play decades later, when Pete Rose, who gambled on dozens of his own games during his career in the 1980s, was banned for life.
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Pete Rose, who got more hits than anybody in MLB history, continues to serve a lifetime ban for having gambled on the outcomes of 20th century games while still in uniform.
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Editorial Her predecessor, David Cameron, gambled on a referendum to put an end to talk of leaving the European Union — and lost, setting Britain on course for isolation and economic upheaval.
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CAMDEN, N.J. — The state takeover of this troubled city's school district gambled on a big question: After years of experiments with more money and charter schools, could anything improve education in Camden?
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Both banks had in the past gambled on high-yielding Greek government bonds which blasted holes in their balance sheets when Greece's debt was restructured under another EU/IMF rescue in 2012.
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Football is the most gambled on sport in the US.In New Jersey, where the most money is legally wagered on sports outside of Nevada, $939 million was wagered on football in 2019.
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Juris Jurjevics, a founder of Soho Press, an independent publisher that gambled on unsolicited manuscripts by emerging writers and produced serious novels and exotic crime stories, died on Wednesday in the Bronx.
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The declining support creates a challenge for Warren, who gambled on not devising her own health care plan, like other candidates, but instead telling voters "I'm with Bernie" on Medicare for All.
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As such, it will tell a tale for history of the current political moment in which the President gambled on ruling by division rather than uniting the nation in a broad coalition.
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At the same time, the United States, which has been pushing to oust Mr. Maduro, gambled on a strategy of sanctions and other pressure that it thought would work quickly, but hasn't.
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Shorn of a parliamentary majority for the first time since 2002, the AK party should have sought a coalition partner, but instead Mr Erdogan boldly gambled on a new election on November 1st.
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On Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump gambled on his own "Mission Accomplished" moment by tweeting: Just landed - a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office.
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David Cameron, the prime minister who had gambled on the straight in-or-out vote to beat back anti-Europeans threatening to split his Conservative Party, was the first to announce his resignation.
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Every doctor I know has more than one story about a patient who died because they chose to try to alkalinize their blood or gambled on intravenous vitamins instead of getting cancer care.
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We gambled on seats in the back again as the flight was pretty open a week ago, but seems it got all booked up and we end up with someone next to us.
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He was distant when he was not cruel, he was a bully when the stakes were small and a tyrant when they were steeper; he gambled on everything, because he could never win enough.
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The takeaway: The declining support creates a challenge for Warren, who gambled on not devising her own health care plan, like other candidates, but instead telling voters "I'm with Bernie" on Medicare for All.
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"I suspect that history books will remember 2016 as the year that both sides of the Atlantic gambled on populism; 2019 will be remembered as the year that those risky bets went bust," Klaas said.
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With the second season, Donald Glover has gambled on one of the riskiest propositions an auteur can: shrinking the expanse of his show and turning the camera to the prejudices and motivations of its audience.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India have gambled on the fitness of Mohammed Shami by including the injury-prone paceman in the 15-man squad named on Friday for next month's World Twenty20 tournament on home soil.
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The problem for currency traders is that the risks go both ways: a vote to remain in the EU would probably push the pound up, making life hard for those who had gambled on Brexit.
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In 2011, case maker Hard Candy gambled on a teardrop-shaped iPhone 4s (which rumors at the time referred to as the iPhone 5) and lost tens of thousands on its first-to-market strategy.
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The Thunder, though, gambled on a trade for George anyway and used their full season together to successfully win George over and persuade him to sign with the Thunder as Russell Westbrook's new marquee sidekick.
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FTSE gained 1.1 percent by 0720 GMT after Britons dealt the governing Conservative party a punishing blow, denying May the increased mandate she had gambled on, with no clear winner emerging from Thursday's parliamentary election.
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May's future as leader of the ruling Conservative Party has been subject to heightened speculation after she gambled on a snap election last year which went badly wrong and cost her party its majority in parliament.
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The Arab Spring stirred hopes of reversing this bleak trend, and Mr. Obama initially gambled on its success, defying old allies like Saudi Arabia and Israel and expressing support for pro-democracy movements in Egypt and Tunisia.
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Facebook has previously gambled on other futuristic technologies — including virtual reality, with a $2 billion purchase of Oculus, the virtual reality goggles maker, in 2014 — but Mr. Zuckerberg has acknowledged that it has had difficulty finding traction.
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Sanchez had gambled on a repeat ballot to break the political deadlock after failing to agree what had seemed a natural alliance with the left-wing Unidas Podemos - which gave up seven seats on Sunday to score 35.
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She wrapped up her latest victory with a first-time clearance at 4.82m, having brushed the bar faintly, as Morris, having failed once at that height, then gambled on pushing the bar up to 4.89m and failed twice.
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It came after the Rams gambled on defense by calling a pair of timeouts, but the Panthers converted a third down and then went on to gain two more first downs and end up in field-goal position.
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And so the death-of-liberalism tomes and eulogies are having their day, with the publishers who bet on apocalypse rubbing their hands with pleasure and the ones who gambled on more of the same weeping like, well, babies.
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After rolling out the welcome mat in September for Syrian refugees streaming into Europe, to the alarm of many European leaders who were not consulted, she has now gambled on a last-minute deal with Turkey to stop the migrant flow.
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If the markets are down when our children retire, the money gambled on Wall Street could leave them with less retirement money, reminding them that from 28500 to 6900, 2628(k) accounts of people near retirement dropped 28503 percent in value.
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The FTSE 100 gained 1 percent after Britons dealt the governing Conservative party a punishing blow, denying May the increased mandate she had gambled on and forcing her into an alliance with Northern Ireland's DUP party to command a majority in parliament.
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Since the election of Donald Trump last fall, a growing number of these refugees have made what once seemed like an improbable calculation: They have abandoned hope for this country and gambled on a risky crossing into one more welcoming to refugees.
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Prime Minister Theresa May gambled on a quick election to strengthen her hand in negotiating the departure — and failed just as miserably, losing her Conservative majority in Parliament and leaving Britain in political disarray just days before the negotiations were due to open.
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The Slovak, a giant of the road where he won the world title last year and claimed a fifth consecutive Tour de France points jersey last month, gambled on returning to his mountain bike passion, rather than race on the road on opening Saturday.
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But May, who gambled on a snap election last year that cost her party its majority in parliament, is facing pressure from multiple angles: pro-EU lawmakers, hardline Brexiteers, and another contingent who question her leadership credentials and criticise a "dull dull dull" domestic agenda.
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In June, she gambled on a snap election to strengthen her party's majority in the 650-seat parliament but instead bungled her campaign and ended up with a minority government propped up by the 10 votes of a small, pro-Brexit Northern Irish party.
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As Mashable reported at the time, players could spend $2.50 to unlock a crate, emerge by chance with an exceedingly rare skin that could then be sold for a profit or gambled on a third-party site, resulting in an even bigger win or a total loss.
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The ruling is a major defeat for the DOJ's antitrust division, which gambled on suing to block the deal more than a year ago, in what was the first government challenge to a vertical merger — a tie-up between companies that don't directly compete — in decades.
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LILLE, France (Reuters) - France captain Yannick Noah gambled on an untested pair for the pivotal Davis Cup final doubles against Belgium on Saturday but Richard Gasquet and Pierre-Hugues Herbert's win ensured he was spared a "hot seat" as Les Bleus moved into the driving seat.
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The ruling is a major defeat for the DOJ's antitrust division, which gambled on suing to block the deal more than a year ago, in what was the first government challenge to a vertical merger -- a tie-up between companies that don't directly compete -- in decades.
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Without a new message or a clear agenda for a second term, Mr. Trump's advisers are banking on the belief that the same basic playbook — Mr. Trump's preternatural ability to shock and entertain — will again animate his core voters and retain the swing voters who gambled on him in 2016.
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Around $200 billion a year is gambled on cricket worldwide, according to estimates by the Qatar-funded International Centre for Sport Security, with a sizable portion of it drifting down to lower-profile games, both in official and unofficial tournaments, that are broadcast to eager fans, sometimes over social media platforms.
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David Cameron's legacy will be this: entitled, managerial member of the ruling class who subjected his people to a series of brutal economic policies, gambled on his country's membership of the EU and lost, leading to years of uncertainty and the possible break up of the union between England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
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MARCIA BARTUSIAK's "BLACK HOLE: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved" (Yale University Press, 2015) is a book about the contentious history of the idea of black holes and the heated debates about the supposedly illogical idea that an object in space could be so dense that nothing — even light — could escape.
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He successfully gambled on then-marginal neighborhoods, developing properties that served as a catalyst for further development: the Columbia condominium at Broadway and West 96th Street; Zeckendorf Towers on Union Square (when the park was still a haven for drug dealers); and Worldwide Plaza on four acres bounded by Eighth and Ninth Avenues and West 49th and 50th Streets (when the surrounding blocks were rife with peep shows and pornography).
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