But the stakes were high.
Yet the stakes are still high.
It was like a low-stakes version of "Rosemary's Baby."
The stakes in 2012 could hardly be higher.
Behind the civility, however, there are high stakes.
The illegal movement of boundary stakes shall be invalid.
In addition to his media empire, Murdoch also owns stakes in the sporting industry.
So the stakes are very high in this Korean Christmas crisis.
Some governments still own stakes in Banks, so decisions on pay are directly theirs.
Other innovations, like live streaming video, are also ratcheting up the online video stakes.
Perhaps it's because the stakes are so high, and it's terrifying to admit a mistake.
But there was also concern about its sales of strategic stakes in state-owned Banks to foreign investors.
Dongzhangwu floodgate project locates on the flabby base, so the stakes with concrete are used to deal with the base.
It's high stakes for the Beijing team in tonight's game, if they lose it'll be the end of their season.
He is going to be a stock broker and he stakes his entire future on that goal.
In the construction of the highway project, the highway line is generally controlled by the middle stakes and the width of highway is measured with a steel ruler from the middle stakes to both sides.
The damaged boundary stakes shall be repaired by the party who administers them in the presence of the adjacent party.
The past two weeks have not only raised the stakes in the Apple-Amazon rivalry, it's also offered a clearer indication of how it may shake out.
Those policies are at a critical stage and these documents may very well underscore the stakes and make the calibrations needed to get the policy right.
It will leave Vivendi in control of its five biggest assets for the first time, rather than holding lots of minority stakes.
"With the stakes so high we simply cannot afford the same old gridlock and partisan posturing in Washington," he said. "it's time to move in a new direction."
Our boss is a tough nut to crack. We've broken our tongue about the stakes. He's still going his own way.
With the delay in getting Gossip Girl on our screens here in the UK, we're so glad to have them keep us up-to-date with all the goings on in the GG fashion stakes.
Fixed-odds betting terminals are slot-machine-style devices that allow punters to bet on roulette and other numbers-based games for small stakes. They pay out at predetermined or" fixed" odds.
But for China's leaders, and, it seems Mr Kissinger himself, public opinion anywhere outside the United States is not really a factor when the geopolitical stakes are so high.
On occasion Glencore has taken stakes in firms that have run into difficulties, or has otherwise spotted opportunities and struck deals, before rival mining firms got to hear about them.
The United States' more measured response, and the low-profile stance taken by some South American governments, have been lost amid the high-stakes campaign launched by Venezuela's caudillo .
But you wanna know what takes real courage. Keeping your mouth shut ,no matter what you might be feeling. Holding it all together when the stakes are this high.但你知道什么才叫做真正的勇敢吗。无论内心有何感受，都能管住嘴巴。形势如此严峻，仍能不乱阵脚。
