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119 examples of Wager in a sentence

Pascal's wager applies entirely to one person.
Would he make the same wager if his own life rather than other lives were at stake?"Environmentalists ban DDT because they are willing to sacrifice human lives for those of birds.
Our current political and economic institutions rest upon the wager that a decentralized market provides a better social-planning, coordination, and capital-allocation mechanism than any other that we have yet been able to devise.
Before we get to that wager, it is worth considering other proposed explanations for the market rally.
Might Yellen be willing to make a similar wager on labor supply?
Beyond the often partisan and quintessentially French polemics about Sarkozy’s NATO decision, it is possible to discern what might best be termed a three-way wager by the French president.
The second part of Sarkozy’s wager concerns reforming and renewing the alliance.
The last and perhaps most difficult part of the wager is “Europeanizing” the alliance.
There is no guarantee, of course, that the three parts of this wager will pay off.
The Closing of the Academic MindLONDON – I would wager that I have been Chancellor of more universities than anyone alive today.
For example, I would wager that if France had done more to challenge Germany’s opposition to Eurobonds, anti-European populists on both the left and the right would not have gained the political momentum that they have in recent years.
Many swear it works for them; others take the agnostic view that one has nothing to lose by indulging such beliefs, except the price of the ring – a sort of Hindu version of Pascal’s famous wager.
The Obama administration has staked significant political capital on the wager that Myanmar’s promise may finally bear fruit.
But the next few months will likely be a bigger test for this wager.
The EU’s previous China policy was based on the so-called convergence wager, which held that China would gradually become a more responsible global citizen if it was welcomed into international global markets and institutions.
To maintain their glitzy lifestyles, the rich would either have to draw down their capital or wager it on risky enterprises.
If Ardern manages to remain in office for another ten years, I would wager that child poverty will not have been halved.
ZURICH – In recent years, central banks have made a large policy wager.
He did not share the Stalinesque delusions of grandeur that seem to be driving Putin and Xi to wager their own countries’ futures.
In other words, the world has lost its China wager.
I would wager that he makes something even out of the fund set apart for the foundlings, those wretches whose need is even more sacred than that of the other paupers.
'I wager, however, Master Philosopher, that you have not discovered what you went to England to do.''Pardon me,' replied Julien; 'I went there to dine once a week with His Majesty's Ambassador, who is the most courteous of men.''You went to secure the Cross which is lying there' the Marquis told him.
You would have thought that the woman would have been overwhelmed with shame, but instead of that her eyes were shining with delight; and I dare wager that it was the proudest moment of her life.
The goatherd descended, and reaching the place where Don Quixote stood, he said, "I will wager you are looking at that hack mule that lies dead in the hollow there, and, faith, it has been lying there now these six months; tell me, have you come upon its master about here?"
"I will lay a wager," said Don Quixote, "that the same bachelor or beneficiary is a greater friend of Camacho's than of Basilio's, and that he is better at satire than at vespers; he has introduced the accomplishments of Basilio and the riches of Camacho very neatly into the dance."
"I would lay a good wager with you, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that now that you are talking on without anyone to stop you, you don't feel a pain in your whole body.
I will lay a wager that this good fellow who is with him is one Sancho Panza his squire, whose drolleries none can equal."
Welcome, I say, valiant Don Quixote of La Mancha; not the false, the fictitious, the apocryphal, that these latter days have offered us in lying histories, but the true, the legitimate, the real one that Cide Hamete Benengeli, flower of historians, has described to us!"Don Quixote made no answer, nor did the horsemen wait for one, but wheeling again with all their followers, they began curvetting round Don Quixote, who, turning to Sancho, said, "These gentlemen have plainly recognised us; I will wager they have read our history, and even that newly printed one by the Aragonese."
I would lay a good wager that where they say in Italian piace you say in Spanish place, and where they say piu you say mas, and you translate su by arriba and giu by abajo."
Upon Don Quixote's approach a peasant called out, "One of these two gentlemen who come here, and who don't know the parties, will tell us what we ought to do about our wager."
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