Sentences with phrase «up stakes»

And the youngest has an elephant onsie, from memory, so she's been quite economical in the dress - up stakes!

(TNS)-- Minnie Driver, who starred in the TV miniseries «The Red Tent,» has pulled up stakes, selling her Hollywood Hills home for $ 1.5 million.

For now, no other international retailer operating in the U.S. has indicated whether it would curtail or end operations here as a result of the proposed B.A.T. Even Uniqlo is not completely set on pulling up stakes.

If you are looking to move around or you are willing to pick up stakes for your job, you should consider renting.

You need to be sure that, once hired, the candidate will actually pull up stakes and move to your company.

Let's up the stakes and say you're 25, spent the first three years of your career at a nonprofit and don't have experience in the private sector.

It is known to have picked up stakes in a lot of firms mainly due to its connection with Vitalik Buterin, the face of Ethereum.

Although OnePlus used the same Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 quad - core processor for their OnePlus 3 that is used in the Moto Z Force, they decided to up the stakes here on the OnePlus 3T to include the new Snapdragon 821 with the same sized dual - core clocked at 1.6 GHz and another at 2.15 GHz and running an Adreno 530 GPU for excellent graphics.

But an iPhone app would seriously up the stakes in the battle between Assistant and Siri, especially with the rumor that Apple is planning to release its own Google Home competitor at WWDC.

The president of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, summed up the stakes in a tweet on Tuesday:

However, rent shouldn't be the only determining factor when deciding to pull up stakes and move to a new city, since jobs with conventionally high salaries are often situated in areas with an extreme cost of living.

It has really ratcheted up the stakes for lawyers on each transaction, and has put a premium on experienced lawyers who understand both the regulatory and the commercial aspects of carbon deals.

If you spend your days desk - bound, dreaming of picking up stakes and relocating to an exotic island, here is the blog to fuel your fantasies.

This last April, when the good folks at RAM pulled up stakes and left Oakland for their next stop, it was Haiti.

Many others from the region pulled up their stakes and moved to Western New York and the Midwest, where the cold was less severe.

Closing the sale, after all, is mainly a question of riding out the lie: showing that you have the skill and the stones to just brazen it out, and the savvy to ratchet up the stakes higher and higher.

You will lead your ground pounders across a variety of worlds, increase their experience levels and abilities over the course of three campaigns, and use them to unlock special action cards that can add special effects to single - player games, or to up the stakes in your cross-platform multi-player battles.

«Grand Theft Auto 5» (GTA 5) is a game that offers stunning graphics but like most high resolution games, mods can build up the stakes.

No one would have imagined it after the first game, but in trying to one - up the stakes of the predecessor, Double Dragon II went even more reckless in using Marion (yes, the series is rather inconsistent with spelling her name) as a plot device.

But the game is also notable for being the first to ramp up the stakes in terms of plot.

Sure, it jacks up the stakes since the enemy now goes through walls but at this point, who cares?

When it comes to needing really high value rewards, if you are using food, you'll need to up the stakes a bit.

As a result, we pulled up stakes at our Kehewin Cree Nation clinic and set up in a warehouse in Edmonton.

Pulling up stakes and transporting oneself and one's goods to a new address is truly a moving experience.

, and to then up the stakes with an aggressive weighting on each stock holding.

(I originally wanted to bring out some references, but soon realized it wasn't necessary, it may be up to you to up the stakes — I even have a Fama and French reference from 3 - 4 years ago, but that's an ace in the hole I'll bring out later).

Another regretted attending an expensive private school and the $ 45,000 in loans it required, pulling up stakes to Germany to avoid the responsibility of paying them off.

I had lived outside of my means for too long and needed to up the stakes.

But now the company has realized that it has no plausible way to compete with Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN) or Google (GOOG) in the American tablet market and is pulling up its stakes.

Hmmm... I think you may have missed my point, which was simply that you already have an audience, and that audience will follow you if you ever feel the need to pull up stakes from Amazon.

That alone is reason to keep reading, but Petrie amps up the stakes in surprising fashion, creating a story that is moving, thrilling and satisfying on every level.

As for Sharp, it's shaping out to be the LCD panel maker of choice for both Apple and Samsung, both of whom have picked up stakes in the ailing company.

Mercury's designers recently pulled up stakes and left Detroit for sunny southern California.

Lets talk style as seen in the picture below the 2017 Nissan Sentra Nismo will definitely stand out amongst others with the signature red styling from the front and rear bumper and side skirts, 18 ′ wheels and Michelin tires to boot you can definitely say Nissan bumped up the stakes with its reveal at the LA Auto show just yesterday.

Las Vegas veterans know when it's time to up the stakes and parlay a strong hand into a big win, which is exactly what Kia Motors America (KMA) is doing with its second - generation Forte5 hatchback.

Besides test - based evaluations, her district has further ratcheted up the stakes by implementing a merit pay system.

There should be no doubt that ratcheting up the stakes on tests will inevitably send us all down the road to Atlanta.)

For a ruthless government that doesn't mind the temporary reputational damage caused by a U-turn, if you float ideas of revolution that meet resistance, up the stakes to full - scale Armageddon and suddenly revolution seems a whole lot better by comparison.

For example, putting Paddington into a prison setting feels like a good excuse to drum up the stakes.

Part of the problem with «The Hangover 2» is the reasonable expectation that the newly minted franchise would up the stakes on the comic gold the filmmakers stumbled upon the first time around.

Having destroyed almost every notable landmark in the first movie (David jokes about that as he watches London being destroyed), he and his fellow screenwriters (Wright, James A. Woods, Dean Devlin, and James Vanderbilt) now need to somehow up the stakes.

At a charity golf tournament, Vince and Drama up the stakes with teammates Mark Wahlberg and Tom Brady.

By the time the film starts whipping them around again (with Hughes moving his business to new countries, then pulling up the stakes before anyone can drive them in), they're in too deep, unable to adjust to his inexplicable rhythms but not willing to fully cut ties.

As in all sequels, we must up the stakes, so Blade teams up with his vampire enemies to fight off a new strain of mutant vampires with jaws that come unhinged (a la Alien).

The Institute's attempted severity is constantly undermined by its inability to convincingly up the stakes through meaningful articulations of place or purpose — and it doesn't help that characters speak in faux - period syntax throughout.

However, what starts out as mildly amusing doubles down on poor attempts to ramp up the stakes and action.

Why not up the stakes?

There are enough moments of loss, love, friendship and danger to amp up the stakes than ever before seen in the franchise.

They are the structural equivalent of the death of Passing Businessman No. 3, existing purely as imagery to up the stakes and give the franchise some emotional weight, certain not to carry any consequences whatsoever with them — but Passing Businessman No. 3 has been replaced by Spider - Man and Black Panther and Captain America's boyfriend.

With each new story, Szifron finds inventive ways to up the stakes.