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181 examples of Betting in a sentence

Judging by low stock prices and high capital outflows, investors were already betting against high growth rates.
A court of law will decide whether Goldman Sachs’ behavior – betting against products that it created – was illegal.
Pachinko is a kind of pinball game with betting, and the people lined up facing the vertically arranged machines look like they are working in a factory.
Betting on the Tortoise in JapanCAMBRIDGE – In April 2014, Japan’s consumption-tax rate is set to rise from 5% to 8% in an effort to address the long-term problem of high public debt.
But Saudi Arabia is betting that it can keep oil prices low enough for long enough to destabilize Iran and put the US shale-energy industry out of business.
China’s rulers, for their part, are betting that they can survive a sharp economic slowdown and that the country will outgrow the US, changing the balance of power in Asia.
In the name of “unifying the nation,” they have divided their societies, betting that, after getting most media under their control, they can manipulate public opinion to remain in power.
Few are betting on his succeeding.
The betting is that the Scots will vote to remain.
It means betting against an asset with borrowed money in the expectation of making a profit when its value goes down.
The recent rise in long-term interest rates is just the beginning of an increase that will punish investors who are seeking extra yield by betting on long-term bonds.
Though the evidence that austerity is not working continues to mount, Germany and the other hawks have doubled down on it, betting Europe’s future on a long-discredited theory.
Instead, they are betting on potential new alliances within Yemen to deal with their unpredictable neighbor.
Perhaps Bitcoin speculators are betting that there will always be a consortium of rogue states allowing anonymous Bitcoin usage, or even state actors such as North Korea that will exploit it.
I am betting that some high-flying glamour cities will continue to see decelerating growth in home prices - and eventually decreases.
With government officials in Warsaw evidently betting that the EU will lack the political will to follow through with credible sanctions, an uneasy stalemate has ensued.
Many economists outside of China have argued that the December depreciation resulted from betting by investors that Chinese policymakers, facing the prospect of a hard landing for the economy, would slow or halt currency appreciation.
As Nicholas Stern has pointed out, by not pricing in climate risk, investors are effectively betting on – indeed, encouraging – an unsustainable increase in global temperatures.
Much of Taiwan's manufacturing sector has migrated across the Taiwan Strait--despite restrictions on direct contacts with the mainland--and Singapore is becoming a kind of Asian Switzerland, betting its prosperity on investments in China.
Beyond placing hope in the revisionist power of chaos, the “Remain” camp is betting that “Leave” supporters will ultimately realize the folly of a “soft” Brexit, and retreat.
I would not advise betting against their commitment to achieving that goal.
China’s leaders seem to be betting that they can avoid both types of problems.
President Barack Obama, acting as if the latter scenario remains likely, is betting on large-scale government spending to prop up the real economy.
He is betting that the anti-immigration issue will be good for the Republicans in November and for his own political ambitions.
Betting on climate engineering – either as a planetary insurance policy or as a last-ditch measure to combat rising temperatures – is not only risky; it also directs attention away from the only solution we know will work: reducing carbon emissions.
It is clear that neither the Sunni Arab world nor the current US government is betting on – or even rooting for – Rouhani’s success.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration is trying to turn back the clock, by betting on the resuscitation of a dying – and deadly – fossil-fuel industry.
Instead of focusing on picking individual technologies or firms, public organizations should act like investors, betting on a diversified “portfolio” of choices.
A loser when he was gambling with other people’s money in the casino business a generation ago, Trump is now betting a far more precious asset.
While most Russians seem to realize that their country can no longer be "salvaged" by the Communists, many are betting on semi-authoritarian rule and national revival stemming from traditional Russian values.
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