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With a 50 percent stake in the company, it must be tempting to cash it in.
He left his wife and family a 38 percent stake in the largest store group in the world.
I gamble occasionally, but only for small stakes.
What are the stakes?
This is not to suggest that there were no philosophical issues at stake.
Numerous political parties have gained representation, and they all have a stake in the survival of the regime.
Secondly, the spatial distribution of stakes may not be sufficient to characterise the dependence of mass balance on elevation.
The interpretative difficulties of these reversions are heightened as soon as we acknowledge that there was more than a fictional character at stake.
These questions, of course, already are widely debated in the media, and interest groups already are staking out their positions.
Thus, one wonders whether persons with key responsibilities for household welfare are aware of what is at stake in debates about macro-economic reform.
The popular label "designer baby" effectively trivializes what is at stake in such decisions.
What is at stake is the extent to which technology was responsible for the suffering of these communities.
That the underlying value is similar does not imply that outcomes are at stake when procedures are in issue.
Only those stakes that were attacked by subterranean termites were replaced by in-ground monitoring stations.
Consider: 'if a person's welfare is not at stake, then there is nothing to be concerned about on her behalf' (70).
And that, of course, is exactly the issue at stake here.
The author in fact staked out a position that was not merely offensive, but quite blatantly seditious.
Our experimentation reveals at least that a deliberative model is not sufficient to account for what is at stake in public discussions.
This assumption is not incompatible with the view that the constraints at stake are of a morpholexical nature, rather than of a syntactic nature.
