at stake

How To Use at stake In A Sentence

• What is at stake in this novelty could scarcely be greater.
• 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
• Definitions of what was at stake were thus diametrically opposed.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• he acted immorally when his own interests were at stake
• Millions of dollars in royalty payments for cable TV rebroadcasts are at stake.
• "Sure, we can rescript a game if there's six figures at stake, but you always need to retain credibility," Barrett says.
• There is too much at stake in this relationship for either side to really push an adversary agenda with the other.