Sentences with phrase «because of the gambling»
«There are times where Major [Cleo] Damon [head of the local office] is counseling families who are about to become homeless because of gambling,» Army spokeswoman Maribeth Shanahan told the Associated Press.
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There is a side character who owes the mafia $ 20,000 and one assumes he owes the money because of gambling but you never really find out.
Not exact matches
Baccarat is used as a measure of Chinese traffic to Las Vegas because it's an incredibly popular game in Macau — the world's gambling mecca and the only place in China where gambling is legal.
Jim Ferguson, who was part of the creative team at Leo Burnett that came up with the ad, said it was Bird that issued the shooting challenge because Jordan had well - publicized gambling problems at the time.
DraftKings and other daily fantasy sites, including FanDuel, are able to charge money to enter contests and skirt online gambling laws because they're considered games of skill rather than luck.
Because professional football leagues realize that letting quarterbacks gamble would give them all kinds of perverse incentives.
It shared a lot of similarities with online gambling, and because the company allowed wagering on stocks and commodities, some argued it was a financial exchange that required regulation.
«We started with gaming combined with the crypto world back in 2012 because it was the perfect solution — one to the other - and because of my background from the gambling industry.
In fact, binary option trading does not even incur any taxation because the Inland Revenue even considers it to be a type of gambling.
And the European told me that in Europe, it's really a no - no to use customer funds for your own — to gamble with that at all, that this is so criminal that if there is no criminal prosecution of Corzine, if it turns out that he did take the money, then that is going to lead the European capital markets to withdraw their money from the American capital markets, because the whole — the whole of Wall Street would turn out to be gangsters, without any prosecution, without any rule of law at all.
In part because the alternative — the gamble of picking stocks — is so seductive.
Jamie Dimon had previously reported this fact in one of his first conference calls with analysts on the topic of the London Whale losses, but corporate media failed to focus on this aspect, despite a meltdown of Wall Street just four years prior because of reckless gambles inside institutions housing insured deposits.
this is nonetheless hard to believe for many of us because we have a tendency to constantly think about on - line poker to be a lesser recognised version of gambling.
The revival of VIP gambling in the Chinese enclave helped Macau witness a 19 % gain in gaming revenue from the year before, and because Wynn Resorts (NASDAQ: WYNN) generates 60 % of its revenue from the region, it was able to overcome weakness in its Las Vegas operations and turn in fourth - quarter earnings and revenue that beat Wall Street forecasts.
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.
He lost money because a lot of other funds have made money gambling on corporate junk bonds that are yielding about 6.5 % now.
And it's important to prick that bubble, because I find that a failure of imagination often fuels the urge to gamble in people.
This position makes the gambling interests nervous, because the Religious Right, with its moralistic opposition to gambling, might decide to criticize the Republican Party for yielding to the political influence of gambling money.
The Republican Party is most vulnerable because the Religious Right, a substantial voting bloc, is adamantly against gambling, This was evident recently in an Alabama gubernatorial primary race, when the challenger said that he «would not rule out new gambling rules» and lost, while Governor Fob James agreed to almost all of the right's social agenda, and won renomination.
71 Most gambling and most magic can thus be viewed as inauthentic play — play that is deficient because of the attitude of the player.
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?
Because of the state government's interest in increasing gambling revenues, there is little concern for rehabilitating those addicted to gambling, and the churches offer little help to these victims.
but i am a human, i lie, cheat, steal, gamble... i think the appearence of humanity in ones savior is so frowned upon because of the claim of divinity — yet the morals in the bible are that of men....
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.
We are kind of like the Baha Men or Bizarro Michael Vicks of the gambling industry because we love dogs...
This pick screams «DO N'T LISTEN TO ANY OF ERIC»S GAMBLING ADVICE BECAUSE HE IS A SQUARE DWEEB WHO PROBABLY DOES N'T UNDERSTAND THAT HE»S GETTING TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF.»
Without this 16th century innovation the game might have died and been buried with Henry VIII, who nearly killed it anyway when he banned lawn bowling because of all the gambling that was going on.
Max kept going because 1) he was strong, 2) he gambled away a lot of his money and clowning was what he knew how to do, and 3) he had a good act.
This is going to stick in the mind of the loud fan at the bar who was complaining about his fantasy team because he started Antonio Gates out of sheer loyalty, and that person is not someone you want to trust with gambling advice.
it depends — if you want the title then yes, because you wont mind paying over the odds to the selling club (Benzema / Aubameyang), if you want to gamble then yes of - course no one will sell to you so not available will be a good excuse to use.
All that is just as well really, because the search for a new manager, which seems ever more necessary after the loss to Liverpool and Wenger's tactical «gamble» of dropping our best player, may be complicated by the fact that the current La Liga champions Barcelona are also looking for a new head coach.
I like both Welbeck and Lucas but don't really understand why we got them as Welbeck wasn't an improvement and Lucas was a gamble because he is 28 and only 1 good season (also he hardly starts even though he has performed well) we should have got a WC Forward in past few years Now we have: Alexis, Giroud, Welbeck, Lucas, Iwobi, Ox, Walcott, Akpom, Sanogo, Campbell We are collecting average to good players (except Alexis who is WC) In order to get another WC forward we need to get rid of a few of the above for funds and clear up wages.
Wenger will always gamble on Arsenal's success because of his blind faith in his crooked average players.
This is because the signing of the 21 year old Lemar by Arsenal this summer is a hopeful gamble that may come off which Le Prof will be taking as Lemar only had one medium good goals scoring form for Lyon last season in the French Lig I and that doesn't prove yet he'll be a regular top goals scoring scorer for Arsenal if he joins us next season.
I feel Mbappe is a huge gamble and Arsenal needs a player that can make an immediate impact, not a hot prospect, because of Arsenal's current situation.
Things are simple Wenger and the club have to stop «gambling» because if they don't it's going to be a long season and finishing top 4 will be the least of our problem!
Because he hates to spend, he is toying with the idea of gambling with the inexperienced youngsters he has used during pre season by using them for the kick off of our seasons campaign hoping that the gamble would pay off in the first few games of the season before the transfer window shuts, so that he would have a good excuse not to buy proven quality.
«He had a slight alert before the game at Leicester and I did not want to take take a gamble but it is not because of that we lost the game».
Who is to blame WENGER AND ONLY WENGER, he has mention he loves to gamble and his gambles have not paid off, because of his arrogance and stupidity.
Pete Rose is Major League Baseball's all - time hits leader, but he's not in the Hall of Fame because he was banned from the game for life for gambling.
He's a big gamble in 2018 because of the picture shown above.
Thats a common misunderstanding among the fans here... wenger also wanted hazard, messi, ronaldo, rooney, cech in 2003, suarez etc just to name a few but where are they now?????... wenger only bought ozil and sanchez because they were no longer needed at their clubs and to be honest those clubs got the better part of the deal... madrid won the cl after selling ozil, then a year later barca won a treble after selling sanchez to us... these clubs know exactly what they need and are ready to uproot anything that would hamper their success... if wenger's gamble doesn't bear fruits these season, then boy we will be in for a rude shock... but its a fact that any club that will sell us their star will win the champions league next season
The Red Bull drivers had the chance to do so well in the Chinese GP because they took the gamble of pitting for fresh rubber behind the safety car.
I hope you have plenty of money in your bankrolls because we are entering prime gambling season.
Because of our injury record, common sense dictates that we can't afford to gamble on squad size.
• FIRST IMPRESSION Colangelo has been among those urging the NBA to plant roots quickly in LasVegas because the first pro league to arrive will realize the most benefits.Vegas has zero appeal for the NFL because of the league's public - relationsaversion to gambling, and Major League Baseball has backed away after someinterest three years ago because of fears that the city's charms would be tootempting for its players.
We now have Elneny and Xhaka who have a good eye for a pass, even Bellerin chips in with the assists.Anyways, moving on, Sanchez is a different beast all together, he hit the ground running in his first season at Arsenal and it was only because of wenger taking a gamble with him that lead to him missing two months through injury, which dampened his form, on his return.
This team I believe is able to win the league with a bit of luck (no injuries), but if the injuries do come again and we do nt have the proper squad to handle it, because we were gambling on luck, we look like fools.
He hasn't played many games, no, but the English players on the market in England are very expensive and at the end of the day I was ready to take a gamble because he is a player for the future.»
He says signing players for the sake of it is a gamble - but expecting improvement to come from within the squad is also a gamble, and a misnomer as far as Wenger is concerned because his tactics are self - defeating, and anyway it simply doesn't work like that.