Sentences with phrase «big gamble paid»

That it even occurred to him to structure «Boyhood» the way he did is excitingly innovative, but then his big gamble paid off in its own quietly moving way.

Not exact matches

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.

Also, US President Obama and Treasury Secretary Geithner also told Angela Merkel that US banks had made big bets — derivative gambles — that Greece would pay its bondholders, and threatened to hurt European banks if they did not pressure the IMF to bail out Greece.

«Senate Republicans are doubling down on their gamble with middle - class family budgets to pay for massive handouts to big corporations and tax cheats,» said Sen. Ron Wyden (D - Ore).

Big brother (Federalies) is always mothering (state governance) its» folds (citizens) never giving them a chance to choose their own habitual tendencies be it drugs or paying for s3x or deciding what to gamble on and how much to pay for them.

Big brother is always mothering its» folds never giving them a chance to choose their own habitual tendencies be it drugs or paying for s3x or deciding what to gamble on and how much to pay for them.

Big brother is always mothering its» folds never giving them a chance to choose their own habitual tendencies be it drugs or paying for s3x or deciding what to gamble on and how much.

My lazy gamble of making this into a cake vs. individual muffins paid off in the best way possible — it's like one big muffin top!

Injuries in pre-season have cost them — Rob Holding is a good prospect but nowhere near ready and Calum Chambers came in as a right - back from Southampton — but it is still a big gamble to pay # 30m for Shkodran Mustafi from Valencia or # 40m for Atletico Madrid's Jose Gimenez.

The NBL, like the AL, the NL, the NFL, the NBA, the NHL, the AFL and all the other alphabet organizations of big - time spectator sport, is dedicated to the proposition that a lot of people are willing to pay good money to watch other people play a game, and its owners already have gambled $ 14 million on the proposition.

In fact, the fact that those two guys have developed exactly illustrates my point — which is that continued internal development of promising players may pay bigger dividends than a gamble on a middling but expensive pick.

Certainly Liverpool are taking a gamble in paying out so much for a pretty unproven and inexperienced player, though it has the potential to pay big dividends.

It seems Wenger gambles too early on overpaying for players like Theo and Ramsey, who had not proven consistency at their level when they got handed big salaries, and have not really earned their salary since their big pay rises, (although Theo is playing much more like his salary this year).

And he decided, in his characteristic manner, to gamble with two green horns at CB against a big club like Liverpool hoping that the gamble would pay off so he can find a justification not to spend.

Miliband took the biggest gamble of his time as leader yesterday when he confirmed that only individual union members who actively opt - in to supporting Labour would contribute to the party, rather than the current system of an automatic «affiliation» fee paid by three million union members.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

And it's the biggest gambles which come with the highest pay outs.

Sometimes doing what comes naturally is as big a risk as attempting to do something outside of your comfort zone, and that gamble paid off this time for Tokyo Police Club.

It bets the house on them, gambling on the possibility that an old - fashioned morality play asking Big Questions about faith, activism, and the futility of trying to save the world will pay off in a moment when even serious American cinema — i.e. films unconcerned with Skywalkers or Infinity Stones — comes at least partially steeped in irony.

While some may balk at how a light - hearted rom - com transforms into a bit of a relationship drama in its second half, it's a gamble that pays off big.

Deadpool is inching ever closer to half a billion dollars at the worldwide box office, and 20th Century Fox's big gamble with the Marvel character's $ 58 million big - screen adaptation is paying off big - time.

Wishful thinking on my part.NOTABLE NOTES: Marvel movie honcho Kevin Feige is known for recruiting unlikely directors for his big - budget spectacles, and his gamble pays off yet again on RAGNAROK.

Compared to the more straightforward, non-Kindle Unlimited system that pays authors a defined cut of the purchase price on every book sold, Kindle Unlimited will still seem like a big gamble to many indie authors.

Other than the usual Pay - to - Win complaints, which have been common for years now, the big question is now whether these loot boxes constitute a form of gambling or not.

The ability to switch between three characters was a big gamble, since it could've diluted the plot and not worked as well as it should, but it ended up being a smart idea that really pays off and is well executed.

This article by Francis Markham and Martin Young argues that Big Gambling «has transferred, with industrial efficiency, billions of dollars from the pay packets of the working classes to the bank accounts of a super-rich elite».