stake one's future on a single chance
Take care how you answer; for your life and salvation are at stake on it.
"Marriage after graduation" members are those female college students who put their entire stake on marriage.
A total of 440 seats are at stake on the various provincial councils in the election, covering the whole country except four northern areas.
The debate was a vigorous one, for important procedural values were at stake on both sides of the issues. See generally Gellhorn & Robinson, Rulemaking Due Process: An Inconclusive Dialogue, 48 . 201 (1981).
