Sentences with phrase «much as gambling»

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The sprouting of these islands of legality, observers predict, will spur other states to open up their cannabis markets lest they lose out on revenue and tourism, much as the casino gambling pioneered in Las Vegas became ubiquitous across the continent.

If the decision you're facing involves money, only gamble with as much as you can lose.

All in all, Kaz Hirai can feel rightly smug that most of his gambles have paid off, and Sony's in a much better position as a consequence.

Startups that don't gamble are likely to either lose money because they are not bringing in enough customers or they are going to simply push along, without spending much and without making any revenue, which is as good as being dead in the water.

You may well have been enticed by the gambling prospects of binary options trading as it presents the opportunities to acquire as much as 85 % of your wager in a matter of minutes.

It will be ministry for the future as much as for the present — ministry that gambles on what is possible as much as on what is actual.

So, don't look for high - rise hotels, gambling casinos, and glitzy nightclubs; in fact, much of the BVI remains much as Columbus — and the pirates who followed him — first viewed them.

Knowing they need to draft a QB, regardless of what they do, they can afford to take as much of a gamble on Bradford's knee as they can on Brees» age.

The Blue Jays gambled millions they usually don't spend, and they're betting on their own analytics as much as they're betting on Happ.

It will arguably be seen as too much of a gamble now as Klopp needs reinforcements and he needs them to make instant impacts in order to ensure that Liverpool's season gets off to the right start.

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.

Its just time for fresh blood who can cope with the requirements of the modern game, when Arsene was appointed he was a big gamble too and look what he turned out to be so lets not fear so much into gambling on another and even Arsene should appreciate and accept this as his the master gambler.

Hopping on the endorsement train early and padding his on - field salary as much as possible turned out to be the correct gamble in his case, as his promising MLB start quickly soured and he was out of the league by 2014 after four final seasons with Boston and the Mets in which he started only 34 games combined.

The young ones like Lacazette or Aubameyang are as much a gamble as sticking Theo upfront as a striker all season long, hit or miss.

I am sure Wengers plan is to develop MOST from within but he knows that the team will need to buy occasionally and he wants us to be able to get the best for Arsenal when we do have to buy, not get a player who is a bit of a gamble but didn't cost as much as 1st choice target.

Even those enlightened enough to recognize that addictive gambling is as much a disease as alcoholism or narcotics addiction often forget that gambling carries a staggering extra penalty: the terrifying mountain of debt built up over the years, the thousands upon thousands of dollars owed to sharks and bookies.

Looking at his stats, he doesn't seem like much of an improvement over Theo as a winger Looks like a big gamble to me

Pedro would more than hold his own and Dybala although not a proven goal scorer as such (25 + goals each season / over a few seasons), he has sooooo much potential and skill it's worth a gamble.

Ramsey can still gamble and go forward when Arsenal have good possession, but he is picking his moments far more carefully than before, and he does not join attacks as much as he did.

While some might think that because Genting isn't completely focused on gambling, it didn't benefit as much as a purely gambling oriented company might have with regards to the sponsorship, that couldn't be farther from the truth.

Signing him would be something of a gamble if we do pay as much as # 10 million, although it may pay off.

It would have been just as much a gamble but there were no guarantees that it would work well or not.

It's understandable if Gareth Southgate views him as too much of a gamble to include on the plane to Russia.

«For state legislators, it is much harder to raise taxes on income or sales or cut spending on education or other vital services, while legalizing and expanding gambling is seen as a relatively easy and painless source of revenue and job growth,» said Lucy Dadayan, the Rockefeller analyst who wrote the report.

But the project to bring commercial gambling with table - top games like craps and poker to New York started very much off as a downstate project.

However, 59 per cent of Muslims said they have as much in common if not more with non-Muslims in Britain than Muslims abroad, and one fifth admitted to drinking, 19 per cent to gambling and nine per cent to taking drugs.

But research shows that new casinos do not so much alter gamblers» destinations as create new gamblers and more gambling, with all the attendant problems of debt, addiction and crime.

As Mayor Bloomberg, an opponent of gambling who, nonetheless, has pledged to support the governor, said: «History shows it really doesn't do much for the neighborhoods around casinos.»

While chatting with WOR's John Gambling, Paterson rejected the notion that a budget agreement might be as little as a week away, saying: «When a budget is a week away, you actually pretty much know what the terms of the budget are going to be.

«We found that the rats are willing to «gamble» with their time,» Kepecs explains, sometimes waiting as much as 15 seconds, which is an eternity for these animals.

Women seemed to benefit from Gamblers Anonymous as much as men initially, viewing it as a source of hope for their problem gambling.

I normally hate buying shoes online, as I haven't had much luck, but when I saw the price and the 2 day free return option, I took the gamble.

The film is fairly paint - by - numbers and mostly predictable, but a standout performance from Shannon as the drunk, gambling - addicted father of a high school basketball star and an impressive turn from the always - welcome, always - gorgeous Carla Gugino will help position Wolves for a decently widespread theatrical release, though it probably won't have much staying power.

Just as in Casablanca, another Hollywood melodrama of an American tough guy abroad during the war, the gambling room is hidden in the back room of the nightclub and is pretty much an open secret.

There's gambling, guns, and plenty of gangsters, but I won't go into the plot much more than that, as one of the most enjoyable parts of «Get Shorty» is the way it effortlessly moves from one comic hitch to the next.

Furthermore, Monopoly today is as much a brand as it is a game, with its logo being licensed for use by McDonald's, gambling casinos, lotteries and so forth.

For nearly a decade, Marvel Studios has taken their comic book properties and turned them into blockbuster movies but never have they taken as much of a gamble as they Read More →

John learns much from Sydney about gambling, and looks up to him as a father.

The gamble — which also re-teamed the Coens with No Country producer Scott Rudin — paid off handsomely: True Grit grossed more than twice as much as any of their other films and received Academy Award nominations in a remarkable 10 categories.

As much as I like romantic comedies and action adventures films, I love watching some scary movie late at night and then wandering around till dawn making sure the windows are shut and that creak I keep hearing isn't some spawn of Satan looking to collect on that gambling debAs much as I like romantic comedies and action adventures films, I love watching some scary movie late at night and then wandering around till dawn making sure the windows are shut and that creak I keep hearing isn't some spawn of Satan looking to collect on that gambling debas I like romantic comedies and action adventures films, I love watching some scary movie late at night and then wandering around till dawn making sure the windows are shut and that creak I keep hearing isn't some spawn of Satan looking to collect on that gambling debt.

I really enjoy the racing as much as when I gamble with 10Bet on the latest Premier League football matches.

As the principal competitor to Marvel in every medium from comic books to television, DC's Extended Universe made sense and didn't even seem like much of a gamble.

Aaron Sorkin talks a good game, so it should come as no surprise that his directorial debut — surprisingly cinematic for someone so voluble, in which Jessica Chastain plays self - made gambling madam Molly Bloom, who built a multi-million-dollar poker empire that managed to attract a lot of unwanted attention (much of it on account of her memoir, «Molly's Game»)-- amounts to a series of mile - a-minute monologues, stacked back - to - back for the better part of 140 minutes.

Like more and more publishers, Amazon Publishing is taking a gamble on authors who've already enjoyed self - publishing success, a far cry from only a handful of years ago when a history of self - publishing pretty much sealed an author's fate as far as traditional publishers and literary agents were concerned.

In trad publishing at least the gamble is clear — you put in the hours, you learn as much as you can about the business, and you hope.

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.

«Over-trading», also known as trading when no obvious signal is present, or taking «stupid» trades, or «gambling», is something I have discussed quite a bit in other articles, so I won't get into it too much today.

Buying stocks comes with risk and as many would tell you, buying individual stocks is pretty much a gamble.

Trading should really be viewed as «risk managing», and not necessarily as «trading», the traders who manage their risk the best are the ones who make the most money; take care of your risk and the market will take care of the rest; that is a very general anecdote, but it is also true, you have to control your risk very consistently if you don't want to end up gambling in the market, when you put your focus on risk control instead of on how much money you can make the money will seem to come naturally.

I like gambling as much as anyone, but I'm not putting the big money into it.