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Example sentences for: stakes

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Nixon's presidency limped to its denouement by way of a grim paradox: His lieutenants were soon suspected of conducting illicit operations of such high stakes and complexity that only a senior official would have supervised them.
Montparnasse took over from Montmartre as the haunt of the avant-garde in the 1920s and still stakes a claim.
Stakes are priced in US Dollars and you can usually play blackjack, roulette, poker, and baccarat.
Also high in the female popularity stakes in 1940s' England were Shirley and Alison : Shirley Temple reigned supreme and Charlotte Bronte's heroine gave intellectual respectability.
With 14 million subscribers and minority stakes in everything from the Learning Channel to Time Warner, he has the resources to be patient, and the experience of the last four years shows he has the will to be patient as well.