Sentences with phrase «gambled the house on»

Priced between $ 22,400 and $ 29,190 (plus on - road costs), Subaru has gambled the house on this one, but it may just have paid off.

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On Monday, Trump's personal assistant, John McEntee, was escorted from the White House grounds after an investigation found that he was a security risk due to his gambling habits, The Washington Post reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.

House rich, big - spending Canadians are taking a gamble on the risk of an economic shock in Canada, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute.

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.

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We choose to climb the challenging career ladder, we choose to take a gamble with debt in order to pursue a dream house, we choose to take on more responsibilities and the challenges that come with them.

There are prayers too, one on building a house (3:12); one for success at gambling (4:38); and particularly in playing at dice (7:50); an incantation for the exorcism of evil dreams (6:46), etc. etc..

The White House is pursuing a twisting path in Congress this week, yielding to Democratic demands on a major spending bill while aggressively pushing a partisan health - care measure, gambling on a big win on health but risking setbacks on both fronts.

The sponsor of a Michigan internet gambling bill is attempting to build a critical mass of support for the measure ahead of a potential House floor vote on it in the coming weeks,...

In the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling, state legislators in both houses are working on crafting a new comprehensive framework for sports gambling before they go home for the summer in five weeks.

The decision to delay the vote marks an acute embarrassment for the President, who had gambled big by presenting holdout House conservatives with a take - it - or - leave it ultimatum Thursday night and put his own credibility on the line.

Bratton discussed the spike on «The John Gambling Show» on AM 970 THE ANSWER Monday morning, downplaying the increase and saying it's centered around the peninsula's NYCHA houses.

De Blasio's department heads were then left behind to answer questions from residents on topics ranging from illegal gambling to affordable housing.

At the time he gambled on the hope that a strong environmental position might win him the White House.

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.

So he gambles all he's built on the «Swedish nightingale», opera singer Jenny Lind (Ferguson), who hypnotises him and threatens his marriage, and a high - class tour of the country's opera houses.

Following the death of his grandfather (a very fleeting George Kennedy) he goes straight to a gambling house he knows well and bets on blackjack with a determination to lose that is to prove the plot of the film.

House of Cards — Netflix's big gamble on original programming — premieres on February 1st.

Some publishers though believe it's a gamble on an author who has delivered in the past but will have to account for twice the number of books sold to allow the publishing house to recover its dues.

Digital first publishing houses often take gambles on unknown writers in the hopes they will sell enough copies to warrant a print edition.

An author willing to gamble on this self - publishing model can make ten times as much per book sold as compared with royalty income from a major trade house.

If you absolutely MUST come up with a large amount of cash quickly (for such things as medical bills, a down payment on that great house deal, avoiding foreclosure, pay off gambling debts or else your kneecaps get busted, etc.), then that cash is just a few mouse clicks away when selling off dividend stocks.

If you like where you are living and aren't planning on moving to another part of the country, you are gambling that the market will not recover or that you would reach parity with what you owe by the time you need to sell the house.

This facile tactic — one artwork loosely related to the convolute, plus one text, then repeat — persists throughout the show: four photos of mannequins in shop windows by Lee Friedlander, each titled New York City and taken in the late aughts, illustrate «The Flaneur»; Mike Kelley's aluminum light fixture, modeled on his childhood home in Detroit and casting an ominous, unfriendly glow, serves as an inconsequential helpmeet to «Dream City and Dream House, Dreams of the Future, Anthropological Nihilism, Jung»; Good Hand Bad Hand (2010), Rodney Graham's photographic diptych mounted on lightboxes of a stone - faced man playing poker is used in concert with «Prostitution, Gambling.»

Modern London's art history starts with William Hogarth, who in the Georgian age dwelt on mad houses and gambling dens, brothels and workhouses.

When you are gambling at the Thermodynamics Casino, the House Rules are prominently displayed on a marquee as you enter:

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«Disability benefits and reasonable notice — Employer gambles on former employee's health and loses at Ontario Court of Appeal» In - House Counsel Magazine (August 2012)

How would we all feel if we had a child who was severely disabled at birth through medical negligence or a relative who suffered a spinal injury in a road traffic accident, but to pay for lifelong needs such as housing and care we had to «gamble» the money on the stock market?

Giving people the ability to invest in a bitcoin - denominated gambling website is not a new idea, but the difference with BitKong is they allow their users to receive a fixed return on their investment rather than taking the profits and losses with the house.

As other cryptocurrency gambling platforms are required to charge a large fee called a house edge on every bet that players make, they won't be able to compete with Ethbet's business model, which involves a match - making service that lets players play versus each other for much smaller fees.

In addition, She is on the Boards of the ACT Racing and Gambling Commission and Community Housing Canberra.

It now asks a number of questions about people's experiences of unemployment, crowding in their house, experiences of racism and grief, relationship breakups, gambling, and so on, as well as about community activity, education and other possible protective factors.

We will illustrate which self - soothing and self - stimulating coping behavior patients use in order not to feel emotions: not only substance addictions, but also «behavioral addictions», like cleaning the house, working, jogging, gambling, gaming, surfing on the internet, multitasking on smart phones, sex - addiction and so on.

The trick is to only gamble when you're the house... and not the poor sucker on the slot machine.