Sentences with phrase «high enough stakes»

But with high enough stakes, it was probable, if not inevitable, that those rules would be broken.

My gambling patterns certainly don't justify much in the way of freebies, and even Mlife Platinum status won't get you much more than the published benefits if you don't put up high enough stakes at the tables.

They seem to think that bigger is always better and that world - ending catastrophes are high enough stakes, but it is arguably more interesting to show personal character struggles while balancing huge action set pieces.

They pay very little attention to any backstory to the characters or give them high enough stakes for what they may lose if they don't make it out.

By the end of the company, the owners don't even have a high enough stake in their business to stay motivated.

Not exact matches

Along those same lines, a great coach could donate their time to a junior varsity team, he says, but they won't put in much effort because the stakes simply aren't high enough.

Form should go out of the window with so much at stake for our side today however, but confidence will be high, and that should prove enough to win the match, especially with our rivals stuck in seventh in the division regardless of the result.

«I would stake my reputation on the line by saying that I fully expect Modou to play in the Premier League because I feel he is good enough to play at the highest level,» Reid told Sky Sports.

The stakes are high enough to warrant close consideration, even if you think the tone is harsh or otherwise disagree with Dr. Amy.

When the parliamentary stakes are high enough, a determined government with tough whips would know that votes on a particular bill are subsumed in noise at election time.

But in competitive districts the new targeting scheme makes it possible for campaign assemblages to leverage their considerable resources to actually expand the electorate in significant ways, both in terms of persuasion efforts and get - out - the - vote efforts — and when the stakes are high enough, even through voter registration efforts.

Washington (CNN)- Despite his low poll numbers, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said he is committed to competing in the Iowa caucuses in February and will have enough money to execute his plan for the high stakes Ames straw poll.

The school, where nearly all students are poor enough to qualify for free lunches and nearly all are black or Latino, has earned an A-rating under the Bloomberg administration's high - stakes school report cards — a system Mayor de Blasio has vowed to scrap.

Slow Focus has the sheen and seemingly high stakes of a blockbuster movie — and enough easy thrills to compensate for the stakes being, in reality, pretty low.

The biggest problem is that the stakes are never high enough to invest in any of it.

The initial set - up seems overcomplicated but it raises the stakes high enough for the action to be entertaining.

Ending with Leonard Cohen's «Everybody Knows,» War Dogs congratulates the audience for being smart after a couple of hours of The Hangover misadventure with stakes no higher than whether or not David will win back the wife he doesn't deserve and walk away with enough money to never have to be a massage therapist again.

The hardest part about the Blumhouse film was «raising the stakes high enough to keep people on their toes, while still making it believable,» says Hale of her first feature lead role

And the stakes posed by the narrative are high enough that one is riveted throughout to a story whose outcome is no surprise: Irving famously lost a libel case that he brought in 1996 against the American academic Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz) and her UK publishers, Penguin Books.

Abrams has grown into a confident cinematic storyteller, capable of setting high stakes, staging impossible situations, and having his characters get out of them, one after another, with a combination of exciting action and just enough of their intellect.

The stakes are high enough that I cared, the characters are funny enough that I want to see them again, there's an abundance of heart and a real flair for the absurd that bring a quirky script alive in ways I hadn't quite expected to see.

There's no emotional depth, and by the end, the stakes aren't high enough to care about are two title characters.

It's not a great film, but it does draw tension from the idea that either lead could die a heroic death, which keeps the stakes high enough when it comes to a train — in a track — going a high speeds.

The authors themselves say that their results «show that explicit cheating by school personnel is not likely to be a serious enough problem by itself to call into question high - stakes testing.»

Everyone has a stake in getting assessment right by ensuring that there are enough teachers to maintain high - quality marking.

The flaws that were recently exposed in New York state's high school exit exam may be generating a big enough backlash against the program to give its critics the ammunition they need to lessen the stakes on the tests.

Recruitment is a high - stakes game where only the company smart enough to make the right offer to the right professional comes out as the winner.

Students learn that whenever the stakes are high enough, the teacher thinks it's OK to cheat.

Andy, who is credited with authoring a Brookings white paper that helped inspire RTT, points out that «In the case of Race to the Top, while it wasn't a disaster, there were enough problems that some people favorably inclined... are now asking if the federal government, with all the political and substantive constraints upon it, can really run a reliable high - stakes competition.»

According to a recent report published by Sir John Holman, president of the Royal Society for Chemistry, high - stake exams are preventing schools from carrying out enough practical science activities.

These correlations are small to moderate, and certainly not «strong,» and definitely not «strong» enough to warrant high - stakes decisions (e.g., teacher termination) given everything (i.e., the unexplained variance) that is still not captured among these multiple measures... and that still threatens the validity of the inferences to be drawn from these measures combined.

We have had enough of school closures, and the rapid expansion of selective charter schools... High - stakes testing takes the joy out of learning.

And if that were not enough, our lives revolve around testing — the overwhelming amount and the offensive misuse of scores from high - stakes standardized tests.

There's been such a focus on high stakes testing that there hasn't been enough attention to the social emotional learning and the safe supportive environment that students need in order to thrive.

These are two flaws serious enough, he argues, to prevent others from using VAM scores to make high - stakes decisions about really any of America's public school teachers.

«But I'm just not sure that these measures are fine tuned enough to make high stakes accountability decisions with.»

Observations on their own are not reliable enough to make secure judgements about the quality of individual lessons for the purposes of «high - stakes» judgements.

One must also look to other traditional notions of educational measurement: reliability / consistency (which is not at high - enough levels, especially across teacher types), validity (which is not at high - enough levels, especially for high - stakes purposes), etc. in that «replicability» alone is more common than Flowers (and perhaps others) might assume.

After a decade of punitive, narrow high - stakes testing, educators and parents have had just about enough.

The characters are fun, but the stakes didn't feel high enough.

Leah Randall / Jessie Carr leaps off the pages in this «Roaring Twenties» period piece that drips with bathtub gin, truck - size cars, outsize personalities, money, high stakes and enough twists, turns and sleights of hand to keep one reading late into the night... Simply put, this book is FUN.»

Based on meticulous research on a group of women never before written about in English, Sally Christie's stunning debut is a complex exploration of power and sisterhood — of the admiration, competition, and even hatred that can coexist within a family when the stakes are high enough.

Going higher than others» estimates, the research team believed that Amazon shipped 4.7 million Kindle Fires, or enough to stake out 16.8 percent of tablets worldwide.

Still, perhaps the situation in Hawaii is urgent enough, and the stakes high enough, to focus the mind — to get us that far.

What, were the stakes not high enough when Captain Hook had merely kidnapped Peter Pan's children and had already threatened to kill them?

The principle behind the indie games movement was that developers not chained to the high stakes world of initial public offerings and demographics research would be able to create innovative games that users would want to play, rather than what users had proven in the past that they would be willing to play, and finally there is a mecha game on the XBLIG service that proves the indie movement right, because Explosionade is a love letter to the great 2D SNES mecha sidescrollers that adds just enough new gameplay mechanics to make it its own beast.

It's been more than a year since the game Injustice: Gods Among Us was released, and fans still can't get enough of this alternate DC universe where there are no rules and the stakes are considerably higher than that of the DC universe proper.

So really it's the gain of the temperature - convection feedback that's at stake, and if it were high enough to fully offset all radiative effects on temperature, there'd be some obvious symptoms — low natural variability and glacial cycles perfectly correlated with insolation perhaps.

«We are walking out of these talks because governments need to know that enough is enough», said Winnie Byanyima, director of Oxfam International, «The stakes are too high to allow governments to make a mockery of these talks».

Just doing the science is not good enough anymore with the stakes so high.