Exempel på gambled

• The government gambled that outcries from vested interests would neutralize each other and that unions would be divided and powerless.

• Workers gambled on uninformed port-users, the ambivalent position of ship owners and the satisfaction of private terminal owners to weaken business consensus over port policy.

• They gambled that their lives would go better if they pursued a particular relationship, and the gamble failed.

• Kabukimono gambled, blackmailed people in the streets, and swaggered in entertainment districts such as the licensed quarter and public bath and theatre areas.

• There is some evidence that the attribute that is traded off, or gambled with, becomes salient; that is, people give more importance to this attribute (20).

• Such activities would be a demoralizing public spectacle, analogous to tolerating the starvation on the public streets of poor wretches who had gambled unwisely with their lives in other ways.

• Beaumarchais therefore gambled on another means.

• He gambled that a security scandal would be unearthed, and he lost.

• We hope that they are right, but it is possible that they have gambled wrongly.

• We have been given figures showing how much is gambled on football pools and in society generally.

• I would have gambled heavily right to the end that there was no prospect of such a rapprochement.

• Indeed, they have gambled with the economy since taking office.

• Not only had they gambled and lost, but they had put their neighbours and friends at risk as well.

• We have gambled on that twice, and we got through only by the skin of our teeth; the third time may be fatal.

• However, the spivs gambled on the warning not being implemented.