Gambling is the wagering of money or something of material value ( referred to as " the stakes ") on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and / or material goods.

Population viability studies carried out in 1997 found that decreasing adult survival and eventual extinction is a probable future outcome for Florida manatees, without additional protection.

Sometimes, after a number of witnesses have been deposed, the parties will have enough information that they can reasonably predict the outcome of a prospective trial, and may decide to arrive at a compromise settlement, thus avoiding trial and preventing additional costs of litigation.

However, the assumption of abuse is only rebutted where the additional expenses or adjustments for loss of income are significant enough to change the outcome of the means test.

If a party wins more local seats than its proportion of the total vote justifies, the size of the Landtag increases so that the total outcome is fully proportional to the votes, with other parties receiving additional list seats to achieve that.

The idea of introducing additional games that can be used to affect the outcome of the main game came from Burm's childhood, when he and his brother would " race " cars around a rug.

It is expected, however, whatever the outcome, some additional housing will occur within or on the edge of the village in the next 10 years or so.

In North American sports, " running up the score " occurs when a team continues to play in such a way as to score additional points after the outcome of the game is no longer in question and the team is assured of winning.

Consider the case where the decision-maker is enabled to know the outcome of some additional uncertainties earlier in his / her decision situation, i. e., some u < sub > i </ sub > are moved to appear earlier in the ordering.

** the Government decision of December 2002 to agree in principle to the provision of additional resources was made contingent on the outcome of the review, and so had proved meaningless.

In a letter that reached Senator Barbara Boxer several hours after she raised her concerns, Johnson said, " No additional work will be conducted on this study subject to the outcome of external scientific and ethical review.

An additional outcome was that, Ayer was suspended from making any bids to get another account with the U. S Army, as well as other branches of the government.

The NNT is the average number of patients who need to be treated to prevent one additional bad outcome ( i. e. the number of patients that need to be treated for one to benefit compared with a control in a clinical trial ).

A possible outcome would be a requirement to raise additional capital.

Apart from two outcome studies most findings relate to the use of TEACCH with people with additional learning disability, and the focus of most studies is with children.

While acute reactions to probe insertion, such as implantation traumas, require sufficient recovery time, additional factors, such as necrosis, inflammatory responses, or wound healing processes have to be taken into consideration for long-term sampling as they may influence the experimental outcome.

Thus, if the only consequence to the negligent treatment was delay in the recovery time and the outcome ultimately delivered matches the hypothetical perfect outcome, the measure of damages will be limited to the additional pain and suffering, and additional loss of earnings.

New York Giants general manager Ernie Accorsi, who had been in trade negotiations for several weeks before the draft with the Chargers, selected quarterback Philip Rivers fourth and traded him along with additional draft picks to the Chargers.

It tried to bring in additional newspaper industry partners and when that failed, engaged in serious negotiations with British competitor Reuters, which wanted to increase its US presence.

After negotiations with teachers ’ unions, £ 400, 000 of this money was set aide to pay teachers an additional £ 75 per annum for working in “ schools of exceptional difficulty ”, of which 570 schools were designated.

In February 2009, additional funding allowed the doors to reopen to the Presidential Museum, with negotiations pending for the University of Texas of the Permian Basin to take control of the museum.

In March 2008, Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell announced that after negotiations with State Senator Dan Debicella and State Representative Jason Perillo, state bond funds in the amount of $ 2 million would be directed toward additional infrastructure improvements leading to over $ 100 million in private investment in the city's downtown.

In the meantime, Takachika procrastinated in negotiations by requesting additional time to respond to the allied demands, a course of action unacceptable to the treaty powers.

Following negotiations with Czech authorities, who were given an additional 24 hours to evacuate the area, Polish troops and authorities entered it on 2 October 1938, and the territory was annexed by Poland as Cieszyn Zachodni ( West Cieszyn ).

Later that year, during negotiations for additional funding of land purchase under an amending bill, Redmond called a further UIL National Convention for 9 February 1909 in Dublin to regulate the issues, claiming the bill over-burdened the British Treasury and the rate payers.

The additional demands that had been made by the U. S. in December were generally discarded or went against the U. S. John Negroponte, one of Kissinger's aides during the negotiations, was more caustic: " We bombed the North Vietnamese into accepting our concessions.

In the 1990s, negotiations among Fiji's political and ethnic factions had led to an agreement to create 25 " open electorates ," with Representatives of any race to be elected by universal suffrage ; a further 46 Representatives would continue to represent ethnic communities and be elected from separate electoral rolls ( 23 ethnic Fijians, 19 Indo-Fijians, 1 Rotuman Islander, with an additional three " general electorates " to represent Fiji's minority communities, including Europeans, Chinese, and Banaban Islanders ).

Nolan broke new ground in contract negotiations, having a clause put in that stated if the 2004 – 05 NHL season was cancelled, then he would gain a player option for an additional year in 2005 – 06.

But he was wary about negotiation with outsiders and when a British team, F. R Thompson, Charles Rudd and Rochfort Maguire, came in 1888 to try to persuade him to grant them the right to dig for minerals in additional parts of his territory, the negotiations took many months.

Although no strike was planned, the union was forced to strike on July 26, 1985, after employers sought additional wage and benefit concessions during the subsequent round of negotiations.

Initially Mierosławski engaged in talks with Blumen, but when he received news that Poles from Now Miasto under the command of Józef Garczyński are coming to help him with 1000 soldiers and that additional reinforcements of 1200 soldiers are moving from Pleszew under the command of Feliks Białoskórski, he broke down the negotiations.

After a week of negotiations, Schermerhorn agreed for the United States to pay the Cherokee people $ 5 million dollars to be disbursed on a per capita basis, an additional $ 500, 000 dollars is given for educational funds, title in perpetuity to an equal amount of land in Indian Territory to that given up, and full compensation for all property left in exchange for all Cherokee land east of the Mississippi River.

Trout was previously in negotiations with Mundine, but when Trout's management put additional options in the contract Mundine's team decided to force the fight through mandatory position enabling a more favourable negotiation.

Subsequently, recruits are trained for an additional nine months in other skills such as linguistics, signals, photography, and hostage negotiations.

This led to an impasse in prisoner exchanges until shortly after negotiations were resumed on January 21, 1865 and resulted in the need for both Union and Confederate armies to house many additional prisoners for longer periods of time than in the past.

This was to deny them additional bargaining power, during negotiations.

The Secret Order of Chi Phi at Hobart planted four additional chapters, and then in 1865, negotiations began regarding a merger with the Princeton Order.

In December 2003, with the backing of the remaining shareholders, the Board of Directors decided to make an additional investment of € 135 million, and opened negotiations with Amena ( now Orange España ) and Vodafone Spain, in the hope of using someone else's network as a backup coverage while Xfera's own network was built.

While he was at it, the philosopher of the Kremlin contributed an additional assist to the rule of reason by bellowing at those in the west who can't appreciate coexistence thru suicide.

Can you consider restricting any additional employee benefits to those paid for by profit-sharing money, such as was done in the union contract recently signed by American Motors Corporation??

Argon was also blown at low velocities ( mass flow rate Af ) through a tube coaxial with the cathode as an additional precaution against contamination of the arc by air.

For example, the steering committee might announce that the group felt a topic under study should not be dropped for an additional week as there was still too much of it untouched.

Four subjects ( 10% ) did not change even then but needed the additional information that an arm-elevation under these circumstances was a perfectly normal reflex reaction which some people showed while others did not.

It was proposed that aerated lagoons be used to eliminate the problem at the existing oxidation ponds and to provide the necessary treatment for the additional development.

In that year a grant was obtained from the Penrose Fund of the Geological Society of America to finance additional full-time workers.

And an additional factor was helping to make women more sexually self-assertive -- the comparatively recent discovery of the true depths of female desire and response.

It was a step in the right direction, but it took an additional act passed in 1958 to establish fully the thriving systems of today.

It was made capable of making war and peace, negotiating diplomatic and commercial agreements with foreign countries, and deciding disputes between the states, including their additional and contested western territories.

The prototype was given to engineer Howard Delman, who refined it, productized it, and then added additional features for Atari's first vector game, Lunar Lander.

It was an additional misfortune for Alexei that his father should have been too busy to attend to him just as he was growing up from boyhood to manhood.

The constitution was submitted for a public vote and Johnson campaigned for its adoption ; his support of the new work provided him with additional positive statewide exposure.

There was an additional republican secessionist process in the Basque Country, Catalonia, Galicia, a Cantonal republican uprising in Murcia and Andalucía, and a constant political tug of war between the Antillean Criollo Spaniards ( Cuban and Puerto Rican ) abolitionists and slavers.

That Olynthus was backed by Athens and Thebes, rivals to Sparta for the control of Greece, provided them with an additional incentive to break up this growing power in the north.

In 1911, Carnegie became a sympathetic benefactor to George Ellery Hale, who was trying to build the 100 inch ( 2. 5 m ) Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson, and donated an additional ten million dollars to the Carnegie Institution with the following suggestion to expedite the construction of the telescope: " I hope the work at Mount Wilson will be vigorously pushed, because I am so anxious to hear the expected results from it.

The system was slow by today's standards, but at the time the additional cost and complexity of networking on PC machines was such that it was common that Macs were the only networked personal computers in an office.

Finally a replacement for the aging Z80 processor was being developed in the form of an Intel 8086 board, and additional 512K 16 bit memory boards.

42 ), after the passing of the Licinian rogations in 367 BC, an extra day was added to the Roman games ; the aediles refused to bear the additional expense, whereupon the patricians offered to undertake it, on condition that they were admitted to the aedileship.

It had simple digital joysticks and was almost fully backward-compatible with the Atari 2600, the first console to have backward compatibility without the use of additional modules.

Sensitivity of the instrument was increased by using additional turns of wire to multiply the effect – the instruments were called " multipliers ".

Although he was selected for additional security by CAPPS and screened, he was able to board the flight without incident, with only his checked bags requiring extra screening for explosives.