The reluctance of his Dutch allies to see their frontiers denuded of troops for another gamble in Germany had denied Marlborough the initiative, but of far greater importance was the Margrave of Baden ’ s pronouncement that he could not join the Duke in strength for the coming offensive.

Tauranac, an engineer at heart, started to feel his Formula One budget of around £ 100, 000 was a gamble he could not afford to take on his own and began to look around for an experienced business partner.

It was in the saloons that travelers could find people to talk to, drink with, and often gamble with.

It was a gamble which did not pay off, and whether through military error or betrayal, the Damascus campaign was a failure, and the royal family retreated to Jerusalem and then sailed to Rome and back to Paris.

Over 1998, SimCity 3000 was meddled with somewhat, but Maxis was allowed to finish the game on its own time ; following this, Wright's efforts were thrown into The Sims, at the time seen as a major gamble for the company, as the dollhouse game was not seen as a match for the video game market's demographics.

Desmond soon hired Brubeck, but cut his pay in half and then replaced him altogether after taking him along to Graeagle at The Feather River Inn for gigs ; this was done so Desmond could gamble in nearby Reno.

* In the Masters of Rome novels of Colleen McCullough, Brutus is portrayed as a timid intellectual who hates Caesar for personal reasons, foremost of them the fact that his marriage arrangement with Caesar's daughter, Julia, whom Brutus deeply loved, was dissolved in Caesar's political gamble to give his daughter's hand to Pompey to cement with him an alliance.

That was the gamble that NASA and the JPL were forced to take.

He scored 103 out of a total of 242 and the gamble paid off, as it meant there was sufficient time to push for victory when an England collapse left them a target of only 107 to win.

Kuhn later wrote in his autobiography, Hardball: The Education of a Baseball Commissioner, that he was shocked at what he called a " foolish gamble " by the Senators, and predicted that the trade would turn out to be a Tiger heist.

Monte Carlo was even a location for the late 1960s British London based series Randall and Hopkirk ( Deceased ) where in the eleventh episode of the series, " The Ghost who Saved the Bank at Monte Carlo ", Mike Pratt, Kenneth Cope and Annette Andre went to Monte Carlo to accompany a highly talented elderly woman to gamble inside the casino and waylay a group of thugs ( amongst them Brian Blessed ).

Mao's personal physician Li Zhisui, on the other hand, suggests that the campaign was " a gamble, based on a calculation that genuine counterrevolutionaries were few, that rebels like Hu Feng had been permanently intimidated into silence, and that other intellectuals would follow Mao's lead, speaking out only against the people and practices Mao himself most wanted to subject to reform.

Walt Disney was convinced that short cartoons would not keep his studio profitable in the long run, so he took what was seen as an enormous gamble.

On this trip, Charles was given a substantial amount of money with which to learn to gamble by his father, who also arranged for him to lose his virginity, aged fourteen, to a Madame de Quallens.

The choice was a gamble since Powell Peralta was an established company, while Rocco's upstart company was struggling and losing money.

Constantine's response to this tightening circle of enemies was a final desperate gamble: he marched on Italy with the remaining troops left to him, encouraged by the entreaties of one Allobich who wanted to replace Honorius with a more capable ruler.

Messina's gamble in 1978 proved successful as the series was a financial success, having more than broken even by 1982.

Politically, this was a successful gamble for King, as he avoided a drawn-out political crisis and remained in power until his retirement in 1948.

Touring was not successful for the company, and in 1953 they took the gamble of taking a lease on a permanent base at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, in the London Borough of Newham.

The gamble was that a successful team could be built using amateur ball players in a family atmosphere.

Two famous examples of this gamble were by Nebraska in the last minute of the 1984 Orange Bowl ( unsuccessful ) and by Boise State in the first overtime of the 2007 Fiesta Bowl ( successful ).

It had been roughly a decade since the last successful variety series, The Carol Burnett Show, had gone off the air, and it was regarded as a gamble to try to revive the genre.

He decided therefore to gamble his entire army to break the siege and force the Scots to a final battle by putting its army into the field.

In the first decades of the twentieth century, Cuernavaca became a place to vacation and gamble when the Hotel de la Sevla was converted into the Casino de la Selva, which attracted people such as Rita Hayworth, Bugsy Siegel, and Al Capone to Cuernavaca, however, gambling was shut down by Lázaro Cárdenas in 1934.

This venture was a huge gamble but ultimately the company's saving grace, until, once more in financial difficulties, it signed off increasing percentages of its holdings, to the parent company, finally becoming fully integrated into XEROX in the late 1990s.

With over US $ 20 million in venture capital invested, Finial was faced with a Morton's fork: to forge ahead with a selling price that was too high for most consumers, or to gamble on going into mass production at a much lower price and hoping the market would lower costs.

When Hercules ventured into the underworld, he encountered Janet's spirit in Erebus, the place in between life and death where those who feel they still have business in the mortal world linger and gamble for their resurrection.

One common story is that Ussachevsky and Otto Luening effectively conned RCA into building the machine, claiming that a synthesizer built to their specifications would " replace the symphony orchestra ," prompting RCA executives to gamble the cost of the synthesizer in the hopes of being able to eliminate their ( unionized ) radio orchestra.

He asks Drona to capture Yudhisthira alive, so that he may blackmail the Pandavas into surrender, or force Yudhisthira to gamble again.

In a final gamble, Primus returned to the physical universe, with Unicron following on his heels, eager for the kill-unaware that Primus was luring him into a trap.

The infant universe shook and quaked from the ferocity of their battles and Primus was eventually forced into a desperate gamble.

Acting quickly after the En ' Tarans tricked him into bringing them to Rann, Adam Strange feigned insanity and had the Justice League brought to Rann to provide back up and help him with a desperate gamble.

Dejected, Nathan goes into a saloon to drink and gamble, winning a deed to a land claim in the Mexican province of Tejas.

However, two months into production, New Regency and 20th Century Fox, fearing the gamble of spending over $ 100 million on a film starring an unknown actor, replaced him with the " more prominent " Hayden Christensen .< ref name =" SciFi. com ">

For it is a gamble if even the dreadnoughts which cost millions are rendered obsolescent in the shortest space of time by the invention of new types of ships, and if financially ordered States are ruined and finally driven into wars of desperation by the continued building of such giant ships ... That the fact of our building this threatening Battle Fleet will possibly or even probably lead to a decision to pursue a policy of violence.

He sweet talks his way back into getting her by saying that he took her money to gamble to try to win more money to take her out to Orlando and buy her pretty things.

When Hercules ventures into the underworld, Foster can be seen in Erebus: the place in between life and death where those who feel they still have business in the mortal world ( ranging from Ancient One, Banshee, Baron Heinrich Zemo, Blink, Cobalt Man, Commander Kraken, Cypher, Darkstar, Elvis Presley, Hippolyta, Jackal, Jack of Hearts, Jack O ' Lantern, Namorita, Orka, Puck, Scourge of the Underworld, U-Go Girl, Veranke, and Wasp ) linger and gamble for their resurrection.

" The manifestation of this gamble was the eight-cylinder Winton 8-201A diesel, a creature no larger than a small Dumpster, that powered the Burlington Zephyr on its record run and opened the door for developing the long line of diesel engines that has powered Electro-Motive locomotives for the past seventy years.

This may be done for speculative purposes, to bet against the solvency of Risky Corp in a gamble to make money, or to hedge investments in other companies whose fortunes are expected to be similar to those of Risky Corp ( see Uses ).

In 1688, when faced with an English king who again seemed to side with the French, the Dutch mobilised their full resources in order to invade Britain and overthrow the Catholic Stuart Dynasty ( The Glorious Revolution )-a decision which involved a major gamble whose magnitude is not fully appreciated since it paid off.

The purchase of Thomas allowed Freightliner to offer the FS-65 through a single body manufacturer, and the gamble worked.