Once again individuals appeared intent on staking out their private territory.

Was the phrase anything more than the staking of a claim that could never be sustained?

The bill sought to close the refuge to the staking of new mining claims.

She tells him to kill Katia immediately by staking her.

Since that confrontation, there "has been a staking of territory between Maurice and the guy in the costume," he said.

He was a defender of the show against many efforts to cancel it, even to staking his career on it.

Someday we'll be staking one or both of our lives on your abilities, and it won't do us any good if you've been kidding yourself along.

"Have a real laugh: your two are staking out Coffers Court right now, waiting for the child to return.

She was very much aware of how much she was staking on a single strategy.

"It's about the staking of areas and the protection of illegal sources of income", a police statement said.

Gold mining is one of the most common uses for the staking of mining claims.

Anything else it might become is, for now, the projection of fantasy on turf - the staking of a territorial claim.

It's all about staking out your territory."

Special Agent Quincy had them staking out grave sites and memorial services without avail.

The bigger challenge for the company may be whether it can stay profitable by staking out a position as the premium brand in a cutthroat market.

"Thinking about staking a claim?"

Often, after staking victory Members can be seen sipping various cold libations from the Snyder Cup.

Buying a home here is hard enough, but it is the staking of a psychological claim to ownership tsat is most difficult.

When the Sioux Indians left, the government offered the land for $1.25 an acre to the settlers for staking their claims.

The jesters handed out "subpoenas" to members of the news media staking out the courthouse, compelling their appearance under the big top.

Towns have attracted travelers on less, and Parrsboro set about staking a claim as a fossil- and mineral-hunters' haven.

Staking Out a Name With so many restaurants opening it was inevitable that some would bump into each other when selecting a name.

The staking of a swollen, decomposing body could cause the body to bleed and force the accumulated gases to escape the body.

The Mount Baker area was flooded with prospectors which led to the staking of many claims both patented and unpatented.

The Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 does preclude the staking of new oil shale mining claims.

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!