Sentences with phrase «stakes get raised»

The stakes get raised, characters begin to grow up, and the game finally lets its narrative breathe without sacrificing gameplay to do so.

How so many commandos are able to descend upon a rural town like this is a mystery but they just keep coming as the stakes get raised.

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Eventually, she got the company to consider raising its stakes — and come out with an in - house line for women.

But with the JOBS Act, small businesses will be allowed to raise up to $ 1 million through crowdsourcing, and crowdsourcers will actually get to own a small stake in the company.

If you never raise another round of venture capital (a big if) and if your company is sold for the normal venture exit ($ 50 million on average for 200 or so annually that get sold) then what is your stake?

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They need to keep raising the stakes and going bigger than last season because it's TV, I get it... but it's pretty ridiculous by the end.

We have been slowly raising the stakes to get them and he loves it.

That's about the whole story, the stakes keep getting raised higher as the doctor and the waitress carry on an increasingly steamy affair just as her belly gets bigger and her husband gets more demanding and abusive.

But until then, the stakes are getting raised, so let's see if Forster and Pitt can meet them.

The stakes keep getting raised with these movies.

But if Marvel wanted to raise the stakes and give Carol Danvers a greater personal reason for getting involved in the battle against Thanos, this would definitely go a long way in setting that up.

Porter melts synthetic sounds with musical notes, creating a wholly original score that gets to a scene's vibe and raises its stakes with a nuanced tone.

What You Need To Know: After taking home the Oscar for Best Director and Best Picture for «The King's Speech,» helmer Tom Hooper is raising the stakes for his followup that is aiming to get him back in the Kodak Theater in 2013.

What it gets right on paper is immediately apparent: Casting hot - ticket stars against type as crestfallen romantics struggling to cope with mental illness provides two attractive but ostensibly vacuous mainstream celebrities (Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence) the enviable opportunity to prove their worth with conspicuously «revelatory» performances; meanwhile, the fundamental seriousness of their characters» respective arcs, with Cooper hoping to control the outbursts caused by his bipolar disorder and Lawrence attempting to overcome her grief over her husband's recent death, raise the emotional stakes considerably, elevating largely light material from rote comedy to overtly «adult» drama.

Much like The Raid: Redemption, Green Room is a survival thriller that understands the importance of constantly establishing the stakes, raising them higher, and letting people enjoy watching characters try to get out of the increasingly small corner they've put themselves in.

«Obviously, that raises the stakes because Vision's life is in danger, and his life is in conflict with Thanos» goals, so something's got to give,» says Russo.

If the student just looks at you instead of getting back to work, the stakes have been raised.

Typically, they will get back to work rather than raise the stakes.

After 39 applicants went home losers from the first round of the Race to the Top competition, many states regrouped and raised the stakes for round two — changing laws to revamp teacher evaluations, drumming up more support from districts and teachers» unions, and getting more aggressive about turning around low - performing schools.

Raise questions or complications to the exercise of standards, high stakes accountability testing, and their utility as policy levers and the entire exercise gets a lot less laudatory.

Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush are each best - selling authors on their own, but the Oregon sisters raise the stakes when they join forces to pen a terrifyingly suspenseful novel, Wicked Lies.At a small hospital on the Oregon coast, nurse Laura Adderley is relieved to be getting a divorce, but devastated to discover that she and her ex-husband's sole attempt to reconcile has resulted in a...

You are continually raising the stakes for your heroine, and, frankly, sometimes I get them in such a jam that I can't think of how they're going to get out of the mess!

I can't say much yet about all the features we are going to have but this year Just Dance will raise the stakes by adding 4 players choreographies on Wii, giving a chance to every Just Dancer to get their moment of fame through unique moves.

Other versions get a two player co-op mode; which although raising the stakes a little, also spreads the load between two.

Players can gamble on what prize they might get, and if they have to raise a stake in order to do so, the odds become higher and the process is given an edge of added excitement.

The major stake of 74 % will be under billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla and 26 % will be under the Momentum group that is likely to get raised to 49 %.

Macquarie, in exchange for capital raised in Australia, gets majority stakes in the centers and cashes in on the properties» juicy yields.

A buyer's market raises the stakes, and your sellers will need to do a lot more work on their homes to get the highest price possible.