How To Use Stake In A Sentence

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Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
In a second or three, take one high stakes football match, throw in that controversial miscall, stir it up with loads of angry fans, whisk in a few politicians, let it bake overnight and what you end up with is a tasty football ferrora (ph). CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2009
With no personal stake in the performance scene, Priyambada continues to be one of the most objective observers and commentators of the Odissi scene.
It's a common mistake.

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The danger in Iraq is repeating the biggest mistake - yielding to gradualism.
A strategic alliance may take the form of an outright acquisition, minority stake, joint venture or brand franchise.
If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. Bill Clinton
What is at stake in this novelty could scarcely be greater.
He was eighty years old and in a coma when his horse won the Hambletonian Stakes, the supreme prize. Celebrities
It also provides a condensed primer to some of the issues at stake in American avant-garde cinema, which, partly because of its historical opposition to the dictates of commercial mainstream moviemaking and partly because it resists commodification unlike, say, abstract painting, oppositional cinema doesn't rack up big sales at Sotheby's, has been relegated to the status of museum pieces and festival marginalia. NYT > Home Page
She'd forgotten that for the next few weeks she'd be sleeping only feet away from the man she'd mistakenly raged at earlier.
So I expose them to the objective complement and the compellative, and then stand aghast at their behavior when they make all the mistakes that can possibly be made in using a given number of words. Reveries of a Schoolmaster
He was concerned that mistakes could be made which could cost the public money and wanted to know if the systems employed had been properly calibrated and checked.
Similarly, I might make a similar mistake with the Andy Warhol.
And sometimes those mistakes wind up back to back on a Sunday afternoon.
We also believe that practically any country that degrades women or any country that cuts them off from the vital life of the country is making a very big mistake.
The exhibition is testimony to the common themes that bind them and yet the unmistakeably individual genius and style of each.
Indeed, the schemes of co-determination in Germany constitute functioning examples of shareholders sharing control with one other stakeholder group, namely the employees.
When mistakes are made a full apology is often less damaging than a grudging admission that events have not gone as planned.
Its markings were unmistakeable, as were the large, soulless, jet black eyes.
Definitions of what was at stake were thus diametrically opposed.
The stakeholders are frighteningly numerous, diverse, intensely self-interested, and powerful.
As a result, Arnold had a stake in the deals he was negotiating on behalf of the district.
Then, the phrase had struck Vincent as doting and naive, but sometime during his stay in Toulio, as his grasp of the Chinese language deepened, and as he learned—or was forced to learn—from his mistakes, he had felt the title gain merit and accuracy. Heaven Lake
"I think that is a huge mistake on at least three counts."
The roads are clear, and the Lexus purrs into life as we speed through the winter mist to stake-out the suspect.
Most people would probably mistake them for small flies, such as gnats or midges.
The dead men could have been the victims of mistaken identity. Their attackers may have wrongly believed them to be soldiers.
She has a stake in the future success of the business.
They have said to me that they were mistaken to think it could work.
An arbitration tribunal from the International Chamber of Commerce ruled Cukurova Holding, owned by Turkish businessman Mehmet Karamehmet , must pay the amount, plus interest dating back to June 2007, after withdrawing from a deal to sell a stake in the company. TeliaSonera Wins Damages
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. Mahatma Gandhi
Hoping the government will provide a decent state pension is a mistake.
Plunged in darkness again, the man, whom Rose had called unimaginative, suffered all the untold agony of soul which had been hers during the moment in which she had been forced to make up her mind and carry out the act, only his anguish was the more intense, for hers was the quick action and his the forced inaction of a man bound to a stake, within full sight of a tragedy being enacted upon a loved one. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands
The Tasmanian Devil is the world's largest marsupial predator but its very survival is at stake as an horrific cancer threatens up to 90% of its population.
His plan is to make us all stakeholders in the new European order by giving the national parliaments of Europe more of a say in what goes on in Brussels and Strasbourg.
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. Ansel Adams
Calliaud, and by arguments and reasons by him delivered, he was persuaded to unsay his swearing, and to declare that he believed that the affidavit which he made at Patna, and while the transaction was recent or nearly recent, must be a mistake: that he _believed_ (what is amazing indeed for any belief) that not Mr. Hastings, but he himself, interpreted. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)
Mares which are in the ambivalent early stages of estrus or which are mistakenly in diestrus pose a clear safety threat in close quarters. TheHorse.com News
Offending drivers are to be pulled over as part of a pilot scheme and ‘given advice’ rather than booked, on the basis that it is pointless fining people for innocent mistakes.
Well, I'm domd – axin yore pardin fur takkin th 'liberty; it's a habit: I've gotten – but I be an' no mistake. That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story
It was an understandable mistake when the request was made by phone.
The heavy-handed allusiveness may just be an aesthetic mistake, a secondary flaw we have to countenance while otherwise acknowledging the narrative power of the novel as a whole. Translated Texts
It's a mistake to think of Florida only in terms of its tourist attractions.
Rupert was naughty in that he voted undirected proxies and he didn't answer the question when Crikey asked that he not do this given that he had a conflict of interest and wasn't voting his own stake.
Dio Cassius can scarcely be mistaken when he says that Tyre and Sidon were "enslaved" -- i.e. deprived of freedom -- by Augustus, [14477] who must certainly have revoked the privilege originally granted by Pompey. History of Phoenicia
You have the right to see a copy of your file, and to correct any mistakes you may find.
Every south coast derby is important but because of the club's position, stage of the season, and what's at stake the magnitude of this fixture has trebled tenfold.
In other words, forgiveness is for real sin, not for foibles, mistakes, excusable blunders, and things we can't help.
I suggest you tell him there was a mistake over his late booking.
It's a mistake they almost always make.
You see this water carefully contained on my hand? It symbolizes Love. As long as you keep your hand curly open and allow it to remain there, it will always be there. However, if you attempt to close your fingers around it and try to possess it, it will spill through the first cracks it finds. This is the greatest mistake that people do when they meet love. They try to posses it, they demand, they expect and just like the water spilling out of your hand, love will retrieve from you.
Your previous records, "corks" and "curls" both, counted for naught, for on that day all was at stake. In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893.
Let's see if we can play the whole piece through without a mistake.
The worthies on the committee also attempted to explain why those mistakes - in surveillance, in intelligence-gathering, analysis and co-ordination - were made.
No, I am not saying that these three popular role models, who were exploited by Home Trade to make suckers out of the common man, must be punished for their silly mistake.
A round tower of stakes and reeds, nine or ten feet high, is raised and plastered; a floor is next made of soft tufa, or ant-hill material and cowdung. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
I can only hope there has been some mistake.
One means of correcting this mistake is to graft a limb of an appropriate pollenizer (generally a variety of crabapple) every six trees or so. Pollination
he acted immorally when his own interests were at stake
The mistake was Team McCain not insisting upon its own team of watchers / video to resplice all that hit the cutting room floor at CBS. Ace of Spades HQ
I found myself a few minutes ago, by mistake, on a lolcats website. The lolcat is the essential representation of the malaise of contemporary life: people with too much time on their hands and no idea how to use it.
Man might think that he's the most intelligent life form on earth but this is simply a dreadful mistake.
The bill does not propose to impose a ceiling on the level of interest rates that can be charged by loan companies, which some organisations feel is a mistake.
I have long claimed that this conceivability is only apparent; some misguided philosophers think they can conceive of a zombie, but they are badly mistaken. nullasalus: Blurring the Line
Everybody makes a mistake once in a while.
It can only prey on offensive mistakes or inattention.
It's your decision, but I warn you - you're making a mistake .
I hope therefore that she will accept my opinion that she made a mistake and act accordingly.
He works slowly and precisely whereas I tend to rush things and make mistakes.
Hedman's mind has been more robust than his body, his self-confidence undented by his high-profile mistakes.
He mistakenly characterizes spirituality as a pallid Platonic flight from the world or some kind of interiorized religious stirrings.
Without timely feedback from the relevant stakeholders and interested parties, it's next to impossible to find satisfactory solutions.
Clyde must have mistaken violent outbursts to mean outbursts of violence rather than intense, brief tantrums. DO NO HARM
Apparently I had dialed the phone number of the local police station by mistake, oops.
The governor has promised to stake the city's homeless to what they need for a fresh start.
Voyeurism should never be mistaken for reality, because the reality of those horrors is only truly experienced by those living through them -- either the victims or those piecing together their "story" for the judicial system. When Reality Intrudes
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes. Denis Waitley
Sorry I most likely do have quite a few grammar mistakes and so on.
It is such a mouth as we can imagine some remorseless inquisitor to have had -- that is, not an inquisitor filled with holy zeal for what he mistakenly thought the cause of Christ demanded, but a spleeny, envious, rancorous shaveling, who tortured men from hatred of their superiority to him, and sheer love of inflicting pain. Andersonville — Volume 1
Some authors have said that an English name for ajowan is lovage, but this is a mistake, although both plants belong to the same family.
Even if these accounts are false or mistaken, surely they deserve some mention?
I picked up the wrong bag by mistake.
Babu snagged the spot last year by dispatching a friend to stake it out two months before the season even started.
They say reporting suspected illegals over the Web will result in people being mistakenly fingered, or let people with a grudge turn in innocent victims.
It is clearly a job which involves people, often with deep-seated problems, emotional issues and where the stakes can be high.
They're saying it was a group of rogue scientists making a dreadful mistake.
PARIS Feb 6 Reuters - Yoplait was set to meet this week to discuss bids made for the 50-percent stake that private equity firm PAI Partners holds in the yogurt-maker, a source close to the matter said on Sunday. Reuters: Top News
We never learn from our mistakes and we are all, at any moment, standing at the edge of chaos.
The fact is that the LSC's mistakes were simply human errors, compensation for which was adequately reflected in the offer of £50 by way of botheration payment.
Mike Battaglia, oddsmaker at Churchill Downs since 1975 and one of horse racing's most respected handicappers, will be an analyst for NBC at the Belmont Stakes.
This kind of undisciplined thought, or rather feeling, that mistakes a wish for a fact and leads to foolish policy decisions corrodes the soul of modern man.
But he is mistaken in believing that most voters will come to their own conclusions.
Jim staked his whole fortune on one card game.
We wanted to eliminate rehandling, which is costly and can lead to mistakes.
She insists her mistake was due to the way the word was pronounced by the presenter, and she is determined to get to the top next year.
And another big one, of course, is the growing number of people who have no family doctor and no hope of getting one, either, because years ago the government (composed of people who NEVER make any mistakes) decided there were too many doctors and limited enrollment in med schools across the country. ProWomanProLife » Abortion politics in the USA
We do need to finally lay the dead to rest, to accept that mistakes were made that cannot be unmade, and to accept that the ‘blame game’ at this point in our history would be a futile exercise.
Any economic reform, he said, faced false starts and mistakes.
For the stupid person up there that wrote "the failure of 08 begins" I can tell you that's exactly the opposite: "the recover 08 begins", no more Bush mistakes and his heir is going to be defeated big time, is going to be a victory by a huge margin!!! Obama: The general election fight should start next week
Mr. Cuthill states that it is a mistake to pack them in dry sand or earth for the winter; and that the same may be said of parsnips, carrots, salsify, scorzonera, and similar roots. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
she kindly overlooked the mistake
A trainee controller mistakenly directed a plane to descend through the flight level of another plane.
We cannot let partisans drive an ideological stake in the heart of public broadcasting.
Exercise certainly helped, and I think my initial mistake was not attending the boxercise class that morning. The Monster Retires to Its Cave
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself. Groucho Marx
With modest knowledge of football form, his computer model was originally built to help him win an office sweepstake.
Mistakes also tend to figure highly and sometimes those mistakes can prove to be very costly.
In case there is any mistake, Dawkins gives the example of a permanent dune - a barchan - that the wind pushes across the desert but which maintains it shape even while individual grains of sand are being blown into and out of the dune. May 6th, 2009
Millions of dollars in royalty payments for cable TV rebroadcasts are at stake.
The American investor boosted his stake in the company to 15%.
"Sure, we can rescript a game if there's six figures at stake, but you always need to retain credibility," Barrett says.
Not only this, but, fortified by the fact that I had drunk his lager by mistake, Ken managed to hit the winning double in the second leg of the last match.
The data recovery of hard disk software failure can be solved by the following ways, the recovery of main boot partition, partition table, DBR, zero track and the file deleted by mistakes.
They confessed themselves to have made a great mistake.
When, for example, Karl and I made the simulation more realistic and allowed for mutations, or mistakes in an evolving population of players, then we saw cooperation and defection wax and wane over time, as those with a good reputation are actually undermined by indiscriminate altruists who help anyone, no matter how well or badly the latter have behaved in the past. SuperCooperators
She also won the Swettenham Stud Fillies Trial Stakes at Newbury for trainer Michael Jarvis.
There is too much at stake in this relationship for either side to really push an adversary agenda with the other.
Electric lighting was such a powerful symbol of progress that early lighting fixtures proudly flaunted bare bulbs so that no one would dare mistake them for gaslights.
A lot of mistakes I see are a lack of cover letter, and an objective statement on the resume that is all wrong for the job opening, " says Lindsay Olson, partner and recruiter at Paradigm Staffing.
A similar ‘group hysteria,’ he adds, gripped hundreds of birders in California, who for days mistakenly took a skylark for a Smith's longspur.
She staked her political career on tax reform, and lost.
His management trademark is carrying index cards in his shirt pocket so that he can note mistakes while visiting Darden restaurants.
The failing to do this is the greatest mistake of the present generation, for if girls be capable of nothing but morbid sentiment or what we term flirtation, they will naturally look to matrimony as their destiny and as a means of support -- a self-abasement from which no woman can fully recover, even under the most favorable circumstances. How to Train Girls.
Use stakes to mark the areas so you can keep track of where you've planted and where you have yet to plant.
The Qatar Holding division now controls a 17% stake in German carmaker Volkswagen, as well as News24 Top Stories
They came to the conclusion that they had made an unforgivable mistake.
Canvas tents and hastily assembled lean-tos disappeared in favor of nylon tents complete with metal poles and nylon stakes.
Unfortunately, unless I'm mistaken, the on / off switch for that has disappeared from Blogger's publishing dashboard.
Even if the mistakes are forgiven, can one forgive the repetition of the same mistakes over and over again?
Humberside Police had also deleted some of the unproven allegations from their files in the mistaken belief that this was required by the Data Protection Act.
He maintained that he had no money to pay the ransom demanded and that it was a case of mistaken identity.
This is often a higher stakes game than most, and higher value hands, such as flushes, are common. Critical sports blog
gentled" him all over his miserable frame, as he lay panting and overpowered on the sawdust, conquered and convinced at last, all his mistakes and misconceptions of other people came before him, as plainly as if Taffy himself had spoken them; so plainly, that he wondered at himself. Parables From Nature
The steeplechase races will proceed four flat stakes with combined purses of $700,000.
I've paid this bill twice by mistake.
It might include acknowledging your own mistakes, such as casually floating that $900 billion figure which forced House and Senate leaders to backload key provisions in the final bill. Harold Pollack: Some Unsolicited Advice for Howard Dean, and for President Obama, Too
It is a wise man that makes no mistakes.
Rockefeller would retain its 50 percent equity stake in Embarcadero Center.
The best of us can make mistakes.
What we call his mistake is in that he regarded "homogeneousness" as negative. The Book of the Damned
The stakes are high, but the opportunity is enormous.
Experience is the na me give their mistakes.
She is innocent; it was a case of mistaken identity.
Historicists often emphasize that behind such mistaken theories there is usually an apologetic purpose.
Blame, attack, fear and greed ... we had better be quick to unhitch these mistakes and their consequences. Julie Newmar: A Gothic Bacchanal
I agree," jumps in Elisabeth Hasselbeck the show's token right-wing blonde who, has been looking for an opportunity to get a word in edgewise and who, like Sherri, is still operating on the mistaken believe they are conducting an actual interview. Stephen Colbert walks out on 'The View'
While there is no question that his verbiage is infuriating at times, I think it's a mistake to see him as nothing but an anarchic, anti-rationalist nihilist.
Umpteen mistakes were made, overthrows, byes, no-balls, bad shots, all of them a reminder that cricket is a game of the spirit.
You always need secrets to barter with, the more important the secrets the safer you are, because you never know when you or an underling or overling will make the mistake that leaves you as naked and as helpless as a spiked butterfly. Noble House
The report called the error a " serious mistake " and also revealed that the intern was sick himself when he was taking care of the patient.
One could not mistake his warm empathy for the place, for his splendid vision of a small world of learning and research embracing both sides of that famous backwoods river, the Otonabee, deep in the heart of eastern Ontario.
Not a single defendant at the1692 Salem Witch Trials was burned at the stake...19 were hanged while a 20th, a man who refused to enter a plea, was crushed to death with heavy stones medical historians have ascribed the bizarre behavior exhibited there to various causes, such as an outbreak of encephalitis or rye bread contaminated by the hallucinogenic known as ergot! Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.: 15 Intriguing Halloween-Related Factoids!
If blind eyes are turned to some drug use, such as cannabis, on the (utterly mistaken) assumption that it is relatively unharmful, this destroys the consistency that is the absolute requirement to hold a moral and behavioural line.
Rather, he made a mistake - due to a lack of focus, concentration or skill.
Rockwell, too, is no slouch in the cool stakes, having already teamed up with George Clooney for crime capers, Welcome to Collinwood and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
I am tired of being used as the whipping-boy for all the mistakes that are made in the office.
KOCH: No, there's a camera at our -- what I called our stakeout position. CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2006
The art of the lapidary, or science of glyptics, is a most interesting study, and it would be a mistake not to consider it for a few moments on its technical side. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
Another diagnostic challenge on imaging is the central neurocytoma, a recently described tumor that was routinely mistaken for an intraventricular oligodendroglioma on histologic analysis.
Newbury has better train connections, and also a straight mile for races such as the Royal Hunt Cup and Queen Anne Stakes.
A sweepstake was held among rugby scribes in Sydney for the final between Australia and some other mob, the money going to the correspondent predicting the correct score, or nearest.
Without an exception these hangers-on are a shallow, mean-spirited bunch of bourgeoise no-counts, who mistake philosophical declamation for conversation and obsequiousness for love.
I've made mistakes but the academy sorted me out.
In many respects it is conducted in more earnest, for higher stakes, and against greater odds than political life in liberal democracies.
The challenges to be addressed are, inter alia, stakeholder complexity, measurement challenges and a lack of control over a nation's image.
after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes
Don't mistake their reluctance to strike as gutlessness.
If you work at the high stakes tables you get a classy vest and a starched white collar.
Not wishing to delay the almoner further I said I would wait for him in the main hall, but this decision proved to be a mistake. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
If you see a right- or left-wing writer fessing up to their own side's errors or mistakes, let me know.
Humanity has come so far, yet we're still just a bunch of blundering boobs who've learned nothing from past mistakes.
To make sure that the formwork stays put, the company has nylon fiberglass camlock clamps that hold the boards to just about any stake.
Leaving school so young was the biggest mistake of my life.
However, for many whose outgoings simply exceed their income on a regular basis such a loan may prove to be a terrible mistake.
Charles V, now aware what a disaster the Guzmán-led first audiencia had been, was determined not to repeat his mistake. Vasco de Quiroga: notes on a practical Utopian (1470–1565)
When things are going bad and your whole survival is at stake, it kind of concentrates your mind, you make better decisions. Remarks By President To African American Religious Leaders
Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human. Tony Robbins
A chronicle of a hurricane unforetold in 1987 remains the most famous example of a meteorological mistake. Times, Sunday Times
The branks were also padlocked on women convicted of witchcraft and condemned to die at the stake - but for a different reason.
Where life is at stake the evidence must be scrutinised with especial care.
Learn from the mistakes of others and prevent your own.
Not only this, but, fortified by the fact that I had drunk his lager by mistake, Ken managed to hit the winning double in the second leg of the last match.
I made a mistake: the detailed, similar snout anatomy present in both suids and peccaries is more likely shared, not convergent. More on what I saw at the zoo
Blaise" and mistake her for a philosopher or mathematician or maybe a Catholic saint with a throat cult. Other Crap
We can begin to restore the public purpose of corporations by asserting their responsibility and accountability to all stakeholders.
If you don't stake out your turf in other domains, a competitor might grab the territory first.
And Aristotle is surely mistaken in asserting that knowledge is always causal.
As Steve notes, giving all Iraqis a very concrete, material stake in the new regime would go a long way to securing a political constituency for the new order.
I rather suspect we're making a mistake.
He thinks he would lose face if he admitted the mistake.
January 5, 2008 at 1:58 pm dis sactly whut i fawt wen ai reedz teh capshun! only excepshun bein ifn dey assident…axi…by mistake get owies. Drinkun fowntan - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Millionaire computer tycoon Alan Sugar, a lifelong Spurs fan, bought a 48 percent stake in the club earlier this year.
The disposal of a minority stake would raise about ￡17 million.
I think I'm right on this issue but I wouldn't go to the stake over it.
Please spell everything out for me in clear, unmistakeable black and white. Don't ask me to think.
Too many job hunters make the classic mistake of thinking only about what's in it for them.
No wonder he was mistaken for a deity, especially by those who had never heard the black American bluesmen whose music was his model.
- but the timeless survival saga quickly morphs into something very different: A new-fangled reality (or perhaps "surreality") TV show with life and death stakes. Ben Sherwood: Rock Stars: How the Story of the 33 Chilean Miners Breaks All the Rules

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