Sentences with phrase «as a gamble on»

Consequently, many analysts view binary options trading in a similar light as gambling on roulette when you bet on either red or black.

In fact when Rodgers invested # 500,000 of the club's money in the summer it was seen by some as a gamble on a player that had not been able to make the step up at Chelsea and was being leapfrogged into the first - team fold by players younger than him.

You could describe any experiment as a gamble on the outcome.

Can we say its immoral to sell life insurance as your gambling on someones death and thus the criminal law power allows the Feds to control life insurance?

To steal the words of Jeff Guo, writer for the Washington Post: «If people irrationally fear annuities because they seem like a gamble on one's own life, history suggests that they irrationally loved tontines because they see tontines as a gamble on other people's lives.»

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The sprouting of these islands of legality, observers predict, will spur other states to open up their cannabis markets lest they lose out on revenue and tourism, much as the casino gambling pioneered in Las Vegas became ubiquitous across the continent.

Meanwhile, Nevada regulators moved on Thursday to reclassify DFS as gambling, requiring FanDuel and DraftKings to either obtain gaming licenses or cease operations in the state.

It appears that Las Vegas oddsmakers are not in total agreement with movie experts, as the online gambling site Bovada actually has Three Billboards (20/23) as the odds - on bet to win the Best Picture race over the likes of The Shape of Water (7/5), Get Out (11/2), and Lady Bird (14/1).

Scanning their shopping habits and the sites they visit — gambling is a no - no — they can assign a score based on potential behaviour as well as past behaviour.

Daily fantasy sports, where players draft a roster of football players to compete for points in a single - day worth of games, were acknowledged by Virginia lawmakers as a game of skill vs. pure chance, a key difference that allows sites to avoid a federal ban on online gambling.

Last July, he sold his Bitcoin gambling site, SatoshiDice, for 126,315 bitcoins, a sum then worth $ 12.4 million and worth some $ 115.8 million on Coinbase, or $ 129.2 million on Mt. Gox, as of 2 p.m. EST on Monday.

The gambling law in New York is unusual: it states that a contest is gambling if the outcome depends on a «material degree» of «the element of chance,» as opposed to skill.

The two largest daily fantasy sports companies, FanDuel Inc. and DraftKings Inc., are in early - stage talks to merge, people familiar with the matter said on Monday, as the industry faces a crackdown by U.S. states over whether it runs illegal gambling.

Why fans believe it is true: Pete Rose has long acted as though his lifetime ban for gambling on baseball games was never actually supposed to be a lifetime ban and that he would eventually be reinstated.

After making a big bet on mobile several years ago, eBay CEO John Donahoe told CNBC's «Squawk on the Street» that the gamble is paying off with the company able to monetize the same on mobile as it does on the Web.

It's important to acknowledge that you don't see the position as a step down, but as «a gamble on yourself» for the future.

Tax cuts on wealth are promoted as if they will be invested rather than used to pay the financial sector more interest or be gambled on currencies and exchange rates, interest rates, stock and bond prices, credit default swaps and kindred derivatives.

As Tim's gambles on its very future with this merger, one wrong move and all the goodwill the company has accumulated over the last half - century could be wiped away like dribbled coffee.

In some cases, the larger companies are willing to gamble on growth — as eBay did when it bought the Skype chat service last year for $ 2.6 billion.

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No one who wants to keep a job as a fleet manager or logistics purchaser will gamble on something unproven.

It's like you are gambling on the price change, however, because it's based on real world actions (and not just a dice roll or flip of a card) anyone trading Binary Options will feel more in control as they can make decisions based on research.

Known as the «London Whale» saga for risky gambles in derivatives in London, the bank was the subject of an intense investigation by the U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

As the name correctly suggests, this platform has a gambling feature that allows the users to win big by betting on crypto assets.

While there are other leaders who oppose gambling, as well as local movements and national movements like Focus on the Family, Grey's leadership is undisputed.

On the streets of densely populated conurbations like Mumbai, Diwali - popularly known as the Festival of Lights - is often a raucous affair, marked by a cacophony of firecrackers on the streets and a flourish of ceremonial gambling in the homOn the streets of densely populated conurbations like Mumbai, Diwali - popularly known as the Festival of Lights - is often a raucous affair, marked by a cacophony of firecrackers on the streets and a flourish of ceremonial gambling in the homon the streets and a flourish of ceremonial gambling in the home.

«Whatever issue may come before me as President, if I should be elected, on birth control, divorce, censorship, gambling or any other subject, I will make my decision in accordance with these views - in accordance with what my conscience tells me to be in the national interest, and without regard to outside religious pressure or dictates.»

And once our part is played with stakes supposedly as high as «Eternal Bliss vs Neverending Torture» we get to stand up and gamble on who we think should get to tell us what to do.

«Whatever issue may come before me as President, if I should be elected, on birth control, divorce, censorship, gambling or any other subject, I will make my decision in accordance with these views — in accordance with what my conscience tells me to be in the national interest, and without regard to outside religious pressure or dictates.»

i don't mean being punished becuase i don't believe but because i take his name in vain all the time, i lie, i have stolen, gambled, cheated, i have done everything on the list of things not to do, all but kill... i am saving that for a rainy day... and as far as free will, i have heard you religious folks say that god has a plan for us all... ok so a divine plan AND free will... so we have the power to say yes or no but our overall destiny is set in stone?

Whatever issue may come before me as President — on birth control, divorce, censorship, gambling or any other subject — I will make my decision in accordance with these views, in accordance with what my conscience tells me to be the national interest, and without regard to outside religious pressures or dictates.

And as Husserl said, «all perception is gamble»... many folks go «all in» on ridiculous beliefs without even considering the evidence.

The maximum stake on fixed - odds betting terminals (FOBTs)- known as the crack cocaine of gambling - is to be cut from # 100 to between # 50 and # 2.

Ian Geary, The Salvation Army's Public Affairs Adviser, told Premier he would like the government to view gambling addiction as a public health issue and also have stricter rules on gambling advertisement.

It will be ministry for the future as much as for the present — ministry that gambles on what is possible as much as on what is actual.

as Captain Renault's discovery, in the movie Casablanca, that there was gambling going on at Rick's Café Américain.

The plea comes as the Gambling Commission stats for the twelve months to September 2016 show # 5 million is being lost on them every day.

Some involve substances introduced into the body, such as alcohol, drugs, nicotine, caffeine, salt and sugar — substances that can be mood - altering — but others involve a process: extreme preoccupation with relationships, money, sex, religion, gambling, romance, violence, the arms race, television and so on.

• In his item on gambling in «The Public Square,» the editor neglects to mention that he is one of the thirty - three scholars who as the Council on Casinos issued the report.

Writing in The Times, Kate Lampard, chairwoman of GambleAware said: «As a society, we should be concerned about the rising risk of harm from wider access and more regular participation in gambling on future generations, resulting in a possible public health crisis in gambling addiction.»

As concerns rise over children are seeing too many gambling adverts, a Christian advocacy charity has called for a tighter rein on the gambling industry.

Tomatoes Ordering these online runs the gamble of getting a mushy, on - its - last - leg tomato, or one that's hard as a rock — especially when they're out of season.

«If you want to play football when you walk on the pitch, you have to accept the gamble and the risk as part of the game.

He bought Sanogo too (note I think of Welbeck as a winger) because he knew we need a striker and he gambled on buying Welbeck too.

What if Wenger and Silent Stan are going to gamble on keeping Alexis to his contract as the rewards will be worth it if the gamble pays off?

However, according to Sports Illustrated, Los Blancos snubbed the opportunity to sign Pogba in a somewhat surprise decision as they weren't keen on gambling on him at this time.

As far as the gambling goes for tonight's game vs. the Champs, bettors were all over the Warriors in the early going, clearly focusing on Harden's absence and ignoring Green's dominancAs far as the gambling goes for tonight's game vs. the Champs, bettors were all over the Warriors in the early going, clearly focusing on Harden's absence and ignoring Green's dominancas the gambling goes for tonight's game vs. the Champs, bettors were all over the Warriors in the early going, clearly focusing on Harden's absence and ignoring Green's dominance.

Also, with Renault's own F1 team on the ascendancy and McLaren to compete with as a customer, going in a different direction for a couple of years could be a gamble worth taking.

Knowing they need to draft a QB, regardless of what they do, they can afford to take as much of a gamble on Bradford's knee as they can on Brees» age.