Stakes used in a sentence

Stakes in a sentence as a noun

It was high risk but I didn't have time to grind it out at lower stakes.

The high-stakes performance review process is just that important.

A student can apply for as many as 75 companies, the reason for this will soon become clear, the failure rate is high and so are the stakes.

There is a fairly straightforward way to predict the timing of one.[+] I'm using a bunch of words here which may not be common hacker jargon, though they're table stakes for trading.

Much more likely, in my view, is that the case becomes a testament to what happens when a party makes a high-stakes opportunistic legal grab that goes badly awry.

We're handing out ownership stakes in pure ideas within a system intended to protect realized, specific implementations.

If the kids are not motivated to do their best, it's not going to be a fair evaluation of the teacher even if you manage to solve ALL the many other problems with high-stakes testing.

Such an investment would come with equity stakes and strings attached: strings which would likely not benefit Palmer, since competitors are usually unwilling to co-operate, even on something as cool as this.

Anomalies are universally negative in high-stakes environments, or if they're positive, only engender modest improvements.

I'm the crackpot that believes there are ulterior motives in this pattern of institutional ignorance/behavior.~ ~When it comes to the marketing of high stakes legislation - know that the true motives are often-times blended with an actual public desire, with the bill being a means to another end entirely.

In that case, the debt vanishes and the noteholder becomes an equity holder and everybody wins in terms of optimal positioning of their respective stakes in the venture: founders have gotten their cheap stock that they can hold until a liquidity event, at which time they can sell typically for long-term capital gains and with no intervening taxes to pay; noteholders have gotten their equity stakes with all protections and with no-less-favorable pricing than that offered to the preferred stock investors who presumably have negotiated a good, arms-length deal for themselves; the company avoids a too-early high repricing of its stock so it can continue to offer good incentives to new team members as they join; and the company does not usually have to fool with 409A valuations or with other strings and formalities attending the bringing in of investors via equity rounds.