But the stakes are far higher here for the party in power.

The stakes for the American people could not be higher.

Recently, for example, he has been taking stakes in medical technology companies.

But for some young people, the stakes are much higher.

These stakes will be cut back if public interest is strong.

All of us have much the same stakes in the program.

These were the two stakes, and both have been lost.

Now the stakes had gone up, and he was no longer so sure.

The stakes are too high now to go after one person.

And here the stakes were higher than they had ever been before.

I want one more play and I'm playing table stakes.

The stakes were too high for the rest of us.

He was going to make his play for the big stakes!

If the stakes had been higher, he might have let her go ahead.

Well she has set the stakes and we will play out the game.

She would never have been able to part with higher stakes.

The stakes are just too high right now for me to up and leave.

Significant management stakes in a company are important, he said.

The social stakes this time around are a lot higher.

The stakes seemed to have changed in the past few days.

Of course, all this can change if the stakes get higher.

It shows you the stakes are high and getting higher.

The stakes are high for the state's schools, and perhaps the nation's.

Certainly the financial stakes are much higher than ever before.

"And I believe the stakes are just as important today."

A lot of people may not really know what is at stake.

Yet much more than next month's deal is at stake.

Now, the government stake will fall to about 40 percent.

He's not the only one with a stake in their future.

But given how much is at stake here, the Americans are certain to keep trying.

She had held on to her stake until I came along.

The two of us know better than anyone what's at stake here.

For a little city, a lot seems to be at stake.

Many of them will care simply because their job security is at stake.

A way of life also is at stake, they say.

Perhaps most important, the business community should understand what's at stake.

The lives of 5 million people a year are at stake.

You know better than anyone else the issues at stake.

Too many lives were at stake for him to move before he had enough information.

Well I should put a small stake or something in.

Their very lives would have to be at stake first.

Not much is really at stake in most of them.

So were many people doing, those who had no great stake in the town.

She'd held her first stake when she was two years old.

He has more at stake here than he's let on.

And he'd rather not experience a stake through the heart.

Not when the lives of his wife and children were at stake.

But she had more at stake here than her own life.

In different ways, all those things are at stake here.

But I would not stake much on the great white one.

People ask how I can stake my career on something.

"We could just stake those two out and wait for him!"

I would not stake a dog's life on your word, since you ask me.

But sometimes they need to stake a claim for something too.

I wanted him to really see me, to stake a claim.

When George was 9, his father staked him in a business.

But you was all staked out for us when we got here.

He'll stake me, and I'll pay him back within the week.

We'll stake out a large enough claim to take it all in.

"As someone recently told me, I would stake my life on it."

I was their expert, the one they called to stake the dead.

They came by a few months ago and staked the place out.

For 20 years, he has staked out the same position in my life.

But I should stake my life on it that no one knows this.

You'll want to get there early, so you can stake out a nice piece of floor.

Stake out the bar for a week or two and see if the woman ever showed up again?

But both companies are staking more than money on the program.

The world is staking its future on the months to come.

Was staking his life on, as a matter of fact.

They'd been staked out for about three hours, watching the House.

We'll stake our mines and work them as we think best, each party for himself.

Much easier to stake a house out and hit it when everyone's gone.

Each player staked out a different relationship to the music.

But I would not stake much on the great white one.

People ask how I can stake my career on something.

"We could just stake those two out and wait for him!"

I would not stake a dog's life on your word, since you ask me.

But sometimes they need to stake a claim for something too.

I wanted him to really see me, to stake a claim.

"And you want us to stake our lives on that?"

When George was 9, his father staked him in a business.

But you was all staked out for us when we got here.

He'll stake me, and I'll pay him back within the week.

We'll stake out a large enough claim to take it all in.

"As someone recently told me, I would stake my life on it."

I was their expert, the one they called to stake the dead.

They came by a few months ago and staked the place out.

For 20 years, he has staked out the same position in my life.

But I should stake my life on it that no one knows this.

You'll want to get there early, so you can stake out a nice piece of floor.

Stake out the bar for a week or two and see if the woman ever showed up again?

But both companies are staking more than money on the program.

The world is staking its future on the months to come.

Was staking his life on, as a matter of fact.

They'd been staked out for about three hours, watching the House.

We'll stake our mines and work them as we think best, each party for himself.

Much easier to stake a house out and hit it when everyone's gone.

Each player staked out a different relationship to the music.

In other words a great deal was at stake up there near the T junction.

He just pushed the stake up until it didn't show, set the man down, and let him walk on.

Buffy tried to dodge again, bringing the stake up at the ready.

Roche has the right to buy additional shares on the open market at any time to raise its stake up to 75 percent.

They can participate in any upside and can increase their stake up to 40 percent.

You patrolmen, stake up a crime scene perimeter from the street all the way to six feet in back of the body.

In 2009 it increased its stake up to 81.42%.

"Have them staked up there," he said, "so that everyone below can study the results of their decision in detail.

Stake up eggplant and tomato plants if heavy fruit is making them lean over.

But to run them, the Government will form eight new subsidiaries in which private companies will be permitted to buy stakes up to 49 percent.

Airborne's progeny had won approximately £25,000 in stakes up until the end of 1955.

They found him in the garden staking up the last of the delphiniums, which were beginning to sag under their own weight.

But when you push the stakes up, the hole card starts to look bigger and bigger.

What kind of a fool, to jack the stakes up that way... when he had every reason to expect he would lose?

"Now build up a fire and put some stakes up," said Joad.

Kroenke went on to buy further shares in the club, taking his total stake up to 12.19%.

Hanson puts crucial £21m Morgan stake up for auction.

He snatched the stake up.

It has always attracted an eclectic band of investors, including the Vatican, which owned a sizable stake up through the 1960's.

It is a monumental work, the two movements staking up 50 minutes of beautiful music of true Tchaikovsky tunefulness.

So this is a time for shedding illusions and for staking up such relative certainties as exist.

"I am pushing the stakes up."

Put a stake up, you've got to end up with an osprey or kingbird because there's nothing else to roost on."

After all, the Assyrians used to drive wooden stakes up the rectums of their captives and mount them along the highways!