Sentences with phrase «less of a gamble»

Knowing your credit score makes the application process less of a gamble.

Another tempting Chelsea player, Radamel Falcao was awful for Manchester United last season, but looks less of a gamble at # 7.5 m and could surprise a few people.

Compared to Lemar though, he is probably less of a gamble, considering his maturity, but could also be a much more economical target as he is # 35m - rated while Lemar has been valued at anything from # 45m to # 80.

It is less of a gamble than the Ox, and definitely less than Chambers.

This Miramax Films drama was less of a gamble and not just because its title lacked an eruptive disaster source ripe for unfavorable comparisons.

Putting a plan in place gives you the opportunity to assess and plan, making eLearning less of a gamble and more of a sure thing.

That makes Sonata less of a gamble.

Hopefully, something better will come along that is less of a gamble for you.

Ayres and Nalebuff argue that borrowing to invest while you're young is actually less of a gamble than the conventional path of saving first, then starting to invest only in your 40s.

I would imagine its LESS of a gamble as Sony will presumably pay them a flat fee compared to otherwise hoping it does well.

While there are alternatives for binary options, users looking for something that is more of a trading tool and less of a gambling game should look at Coinut.

Not exact matches

EA's removal of gambling - like elements will likely take some steam out of those regulatory efforts, despite less egregious versions of the idea being widespread.

(Policies with shorter durations of coverage cost less; the gamble may make sense, since about 75 % of nursing home stays last for three years or less.)

In response, many online gambling sites simply moved offshore — some, including PokerStars, to the Isle of Man in the British Isles, where online gambling is legal and taxes are less of a consideration.

It's more susceptible to economic ups and downs — people have less money to gamble with during a recession — and the firms also have a lot of exposure to real estate.

I considered flipping domain names, or penny stocks, or sports gambling, but again that's not passive income and in reality they are more or less just forms of me gambling.

One of the reasons Las Vegas was hit so hard by the recession was that tourism numbers dropped and people started spending less on gambling.

After the last update of «Byzantium» on the Ethereum network, the transaction processing fee of the gambling smart - contract has dropped to a few cents and now is less than 0.5 % of the minimum bet.

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.

With this discipline self - imposed you'll be less likely to engage in gambling behavior, a method of investment characterized by unrealistic expectations and senseless fiscal risk - taking.

The great majority of the 183 tribes that have gambling facilities (in 28 states) bring in revenues of less than $ 1.5 million yearly.

I recognize that this might be considered by some to be a bit of a gamble with our children's faith, but I feel like it allowed our children to accept Jason's loss of faith with less anxiety.

If you're not going to have buns, you can make less pork and you could gamble that not everyone will have a piece of chicken.

I couldn't care less about the stubborn old multi-millionaire and since he likes taking Gambles and compares the transfer windows to a game of poker!

With a bit more competition for French stand - outs it can only stand to push the prices one way, so with a higher investment for players in a less competitive league I guess the risk / reward is a bit more of a gamble.

I still don't understand why Wenger didn't opt for Jansenn, at # 12 million he offered great value and potentially he could turn out to be the next best thing to come out of Holland, never the less at the price, he definitely was worth the gamble.

He wanted to come to us, cost less than Xhaka — idiotic gamble on Xhaka (who is a good player btw) instead of buying Premiership experienced, marathon man Kante, for less!!!! Total and utter idiocy.

Brendan Rodgers likes taking gambles on lesser known players, but this one will cost them far less and comes with an already strong understanding of the English top flight.

For the wages we pay Wenger, we could pay one of the best managers in the world, while any manager will be a gamble I do feel that gamble can be less risk if research done fully and finding someone who has shown they can do it over a obscure name could attract players.

Even at such a bargain price the investment made by Brendan Rodgers in January 2013 was still something of a gamble, though perhaps less so than subsequent deals for the likes of Mario Balotelli, and the Northern Irishman has done well to nurture Coutinho and show him enough faith to help the player mature into a real world - class talent.

Sheer consistency kept it in contention against the much faster (but less reliable) Porsche of Jacky Ickx and Reinhold Joest, but a clever tyre gamble at the end of the race ended up sealing the deal for the small French outfit.

This too is a risk, of course, and much less exciting, but gambling on a young player at the very least guarantees more years of service.

Of the 224 signings, over half (114) went on to make less than twenty starts for the club and although some may have been considered a gamble for the future this appears to be a damning level of success; recognising that a handful are still on the books and may yet establish solid careers in the claret and bluOf the 224 signings, over half (114) went on to make less than twenty starts for the club and although some may have been considered a gamble for the future this appears to be a damning level of success; recognising that a handful are still on the books and may yet establish solid careers in the claret and bluof success; recognising that a handful are still on the books and may yet establish solid careers in the claret and blue.

Opponents of casino gambling rallied supporters in Springfield, Massachusetts last night where a citywide referendum on MGM Resorts» $ 800 million casino development is less than three weeks away.

Updating a 2005 report called «Stacking the Deck,» Common Cause New York says gambling interests have raised more than $ 3 million in less than three years, passing the cash along to elected officials and a series of pro-gambling groups.

It's looking less and less likely that state Senators and Assemblymembers will get a pay raise as a holiday present this year, but Governor Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers still have a number of issues they need to resolve before the year ends, ranging from the siting of gambling casinos to how to close a Thruway deficit and whether to go ahead with hydro - fracking.

Unlike, say, changes to how the state budget is put together, some voters are truly ambivalent over whether expanding gambling in the state is a net positive, given some of the less savory social ills that come with it.

But it also would siphon business from any companion casino built in the heart of the Catskills — a less prosperous area explicitly mentioned by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and others as an intended beneficiary of New York's gambling expansion.

«It actually leads to less money, not more, because of the costs of problem gambling.»

Simply saying «Jobs and Growth» repeatedly does not make Labours vague debt addicted spendaholic «plan» any less of a suicidal gamble with the lives and futures of real people.

Robb Smith, Executive Director of Interfaith Impact of New York State and a member of the Coalition of Gambling in New York, said that because gambling already exists in Saratoga, also home to the iconic flat track, the arrival of a casino could have less of a negative impact than in otheGambling in New York, said that because gambling already exists in Saratoga, also home to the iconic flat track, the arrival of a casino could have less of a negative impact than in othegambling already exists in Saratoga, also home to the iconic flat track, the arrival of a casino could have less of a negative impact than in other areas.

This was to be a year of celebration for New York's booming gambling industry, but like casinos themselves — where glitter often hides the grime — the reality has been far less glamorous, with underwhelming returns, evidence of industry cannibalization and a new, sharp - edged conflict between the state and a major tribal gambling operation.

With less than 48 hours until the first race of the 2012 season at Saratoga Race Course — today we're talking gambling.

Less than 1 percent of the entire population is addicted to gambling — a rate that has held steady for 40 years — even though surveys of American adults show that 72 percent have gambled at least once in the prior year.

Pathological gambling may have less to do with the thrill of winning than with the downer of losing, reports Vanderbilt University neuroscientist David Zald.

In a further gamble, the director and screenwriter strive to reveal their subject by limiting their film's scope, more or less, to a few mere weeks at the end of Lincoln's first term, at a time when the overwhelmingly popular president resolved to take advantage of the lame duck Congress to pass the 13th Amendment.

It is now easy to see John Carter as a costly gamble, one whose underperformance was foreshadowed in the slightly smaller failings of 2010's slightly less expensive but thematically kindred Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.

Casting the physically dissimilar Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon - Levitt as the same person 30 years apart was a huge gamble that pays off beautifully, thanks less to the prosthetics applied to Gordon - Levitt's face than to his uncanny youthful replication of Willis» middle - age mannerisms.

Also shown was a much less finished sequence showing the results of Alex and co trying to reinvent the stodgy circus (that has been bought by the penguins and chimps with their casino gambling winnings, which sadly also represent penguin Private's college fund) and putting on an elaborate, Cirque Du Soleil influenced new show.

With that said, my hypothesis is that investors would be less likely to gamble on an investment based purely on intuition than an educator would on a teaching strategy because the investor has more to lose in a very short amount of time.