Sentences with phrase «than gambling at»

Investing for some individuals appears no different than gambling at a casino in Las Vegas.

Not exact matches

At the best of times, everything a CMO does is a gamble with ephemeral and uncertain results; that's a hundred times truer now, with marketing tools multiplying faster than anyone could truthfully claim to keep up with.

One of the first successful businesses on the bitcoin blockchain was Satoshi Dice, a provably fair gambling website that at its peak accounted for more than 50 percent of all bitcoin transactions.

The gambling can be done at any time, on any device, with average playing round lasting less than a minute.

The same people who will benefit from an expanded green economy won't suffer from an expanded gambling economy, because they'd rather dine at an upscale (but tastefully casual) restaurant in Brooklyn that specializes in locally sourced food and sustainable agriculture than get on a bus to go to a «Las Vegas — style» casino in the Catskills.

And although the market crash was more a symptom than a cause of the crisis, the church had been complicit in the speculative frenzy that precipitated the crash: «The people who were gambling most recklessly sat in its pews, and never felt the slightest incongruity between their presence at worship on Sunday and their luck in the profit - chase during the rest of the week» (November 25, 1931).

I love to warm the cake up just before I serve it, but always take a gamble on how long for and at what temperature — can anyone more experienced than me recommend a good time / temp for warming?

When behind, he was content to whittle away at the boats ahead rather than gamble.

There is no need to gamble at time of the league, let give Maitland - Niles a chance and i know he will perform well in that position than other crop of players for that position.

None of the Niners» free - agent signings was a bigger gamble than that of Johnson, whose history of erratic behavior dates to his days at San Jose State, where he was thrown off the team during his senior season.

* Playing Theo is the hardest thing to watch, would rather gamble with Neilson * The Ox would do a better job than Bellerin at RWB * Kola should be playing LWB * Ramsey is a different player when he starts & being an impact sub * Giroud & Laca should start together especially physical (away) games * Ozil is good but... well maybe should rotate with Iwobi * Xhaka should work on reducing costly errors * can't trust Monreal, seems like a target for our opponents wherever he plays they wan na go thru him!!!

Marussia gambled on putting both drivers out on slick tyres at the end of Q1 and the track dried out quicker than expected, putting both Bianchi and Max Chilton through to Q2.

Instead we took a big gamble on a player valued at less than # 30 million, that had been a huge flop at United.

Well i guess Pato will be better than nothing, it will a gamble but at least its something.

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.

In fact when Rodgers invested # 500,000 of the club's money in the summer it was seen by some as a gamble on a player that had not been able to make the step up at Chelsea and was being leapfrogged into the first - team fold by players younger than him.

Zapata — I have seen Udinese a few times this season, and he is a promising youngster with all the right attributes to be a success — at 21 he is now captain — but paying anymore than Arsene has allegedly offered would be a huge gamble.

I guess it's a gamble that is led by her but at the same time I would rather she gets breastmilk than all of the potentially GMO pesticide foods out there.

The former treasurer of an Ontario County fire company has been accused of stealing more than $ 20,000 to gamble at casinos, according to the state comptroller's office.

The actual wording of the change to article 1 section 9 of the state's constitution is to allow «casino gambling at no more than seven facilities as authorized and prescribed by the legislature».

«If there's going to be more than one casino in the metropolitan area, then we should not deprive the upstate communities,» Bonacic said in a panel discussion at the Saratoga Institute on Racing & Gaming Law that attracted about 100 lawyers, lobbyists and others tied to the racing and gambling industry.

At a Sept. 7 hearing before the State Senate's gaming committee, Featherstonhaugh argued that New York State should benefit from the more than $ 3 billion New Yorkers spend gambling out - of - state every year.

That said, some types of gambling are more risky than others and FOBT's seem to be one of the products most associated with harm at present.

If Ed Miliband's party is more popular than Labour was at the last election — as, with 2 million LibDem voters having switched to Labour, it undoubtedly is — it is difficult to see how Cameron's gamble could pay off.

Walsh is charged with theft of government funds and wire fraud for collecting more than $ 80,000 in pay and overtime pay by allegedly claiming that he was working for the sheriff's department when he was actually golfing, gambling, working on party political activities, being fitted by his tailor for clothing or relaxing at home.

SHORTSVILLE, N.Y. — The former treasurer of an Ontario County fire company has been accused of stealing more than $ 20,000 to gamble at casinos, according to the state Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.

An illegal war Uncontrolled immigration # billions leaking every year via new quangos Students (in England) now have to mortgage their futures to get to University 24 hour binge drinking breakdown of the family vast increase in licensed gambling External debt quadrupled to $ 11 Trillion making us the second largest debtor nation in the world after the USA at $ 12 Trillion (we may overtake them later this year) Pension funds pillaged for # 5Bn a year Gold reserves sold for a pittance Children leaving school unable to read or write NHS a basket case - 1 in 10 leave hospital sicker than when they went in.

«We took a calculated collective gamble as a party when we went into coalition and clearly it has turned out to be a lot harder and a lot tougher than any of us could have anticipated at the time.

Prosecutors said Walsh was paid for more than 1,500 hours of work and another 1,000 hours of overtime at times when he was playing golf, gambling or politicking.

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

«Our work clearly shows that pathological gambling runs in families at a rate higher than for many other behavioral and psychiatric disorders,» says Donald W. Black, MD, professor of psychiatry in the UI Carver College of Medicine.

The findings showed that of the 427 African - American youth studied almost half the sample — 49 % — had gambled at least once before age 18, and more gamblers than non-gamblers had initiated sexual intercourse by age 18.

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.

Those few who do have more money than they know what to do with seem to prefer to become «names» at Lloyds than to gamble it on an embryonic company that makes things people might want to buy.

Clocking in at more than two minutes, we also see Han asking Chewie to clarify his name, and Donald Glover's Lando Calrissian teasing Han during a high - stakes gambling session.

At the end of the day gambling all comes down to luck, and trying to tell a story that represents it as more than such results in an uninteresting and misguided film.

One night at a card game, Gerry meets «Curtis» (Ryan Reynolds) a charismatic young man who appears to have a much better knack for gambling than Gerry ever has.

[2] Mercedes accepted the gamble and the new 300 SL — 300 for its 3.0 litre engine displacement and SL for Sport Leicht (Sport Light)-- was introduced at the 1954 New York Auto Show rather than the Frankfurt or Geneva gatherings company models made their usual debuts.

If there's a gamble to be taken in all this, and there certainly is, as a content creator I still think my odds are better than they've been at any time in history.

I certainly took a gamble by beginning the story in the way I did: chronologically, the book begins at the end of the story, so at this point we have no clear idea of why Glyver has felt it necessary to take the life of a completely innocent man, other than as a vaguely described preparation for the murder of his enemy.

A number of authors have decided to pull their books from KDP Select for the sheer gamble of hoping that someone would buy the book rather than read it at that rate.

Until now, a typical print run of a title has been a gamble for the publisher, who wants to not only meet consumer demand while not producing greater output than necessary; the bookseller, too, was taking a significant risk on placing too many copies of a title on the sales floor and potentially losing valuable sales space at the same time.

So at this point it is more of a gamble than a quid pro quo.

Three dollars at the door, but it'll barbapapa [translate] into $ 20 for you upon acceptance; a little gamble, sure, but we promise better odds than the lottery.

So either you are a famous author who earns an insane amount of money per month, or you struggle at the bottom, earning less than the minimum wage, no wonder it's a gamble.

Because no doc loans are risky for lenders, your interest rate will be much higher than usual and you may have to look around at multiple companies before someone will take a gamble on you.

If students do well at stock - picking exercises it's almost surely because of dumb luck, yet their «success» may encourage them to think that investing is a form of gambling, rather than a prudent way to grow the money they've saved.

Rather than an educational experience, practice accounts are a little like play - money sessions at Las Vegas, where gambling novices can learn to play casino games without risking any real cash.

Hi Econstudent, I wouldn't consider buying stocks on margin to be gambling at all, any more than buying real estate with a mortgage is gambling.

This can lead to an investment return, but I look at Bitcoin more like gambling than investing.