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1. "There's a lot at stake," she said, "More than you could know, but I do care for you more than you think and that fact is making it difficult to fulfill my obligations
2. His strange new work colleague Moses Tah, an immigrant from the battle-scarred West African state of Liberia claims the ability to give him these powers, but is he for real? If Moses does possess the powers that Michael wants, will he be able to gain them? If he can learn them in time, will they be enough to change the destiny of the people around him? Lives are at stake; families, friends, colleagues, innocent bystanders
3. He understood all that and understood what was really at stake here on a level deeper than that
4. What is at stake is not the issue of convenience or even success
5. What is at stake is the issue of life and death and eternity, which is in the last analysis the issue of the glory of God
6. Many of us are unwilling to allow the threat of survival to persist when even our ministry or calling or legacy are at stake
7. He wanted to be the one to explain to the camp what was at stake
8. "You must understand that the future of our world is at stake
9. There will be lives at stake, on both sides
10. Have you any idea how much is at stake, my dear uncharismatic ex? Looting is an old, long-established activity but looters these days have better technology and better networks than anyone
11. office was at stake
12. There was too much at stake, and for him to be at anything less than perfect condition could result in a costly mistake
13. ‘Not while there’s a child’s life at stake,’ he said,
14. Why should she be caught up in an adventure such as this, in a battle with ghost machines from outer space with the fate of the whole world at stake? 'Because you fell in love with someone from outer space, you ninny,' she thought
15. So much was at stake here
16. “Oh, don’t say that! there is an innocent life at stake too,
17. It was rather a sense of how much was at stake, how much was riding on his cooperation and amenability
18. Lives are at stake here,” Zarko pressed on
19. Her only brother’s life was at stake here and she was behaving like a spoilt child
20. “He’s never been made head of a mission before, but Venus and at least two other gods are at stake
21. when Jill’s welfare was at stake
22. with Christ is at stake
23. „It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied rush to truth in unimportant matters, and refuse to face her where graver issues are at stake
24. In the grand scheme of things what did his little life matter when there are billions of lives at stake
25. It seemed to Nathan that a lot was at stake but he didn’t know what that ‘a lot’ was
26. Not only was Sespian being drugged, but his very life was at stake
27. ―vital national interests‖ are at stake? In a word, where does society draw the line on inappropriate conduct? America is a great nation because its institutions are recoverable
28. I, like the rest, believed that the survival of the country was at stake and these actions were necessary: foreign agitators with the help of treasonous Nicaraguans were funneling weapons into the hands of the protestors, providing para-military training, false documents, and printing revolutionary propaganda
29. “You still don’t understand what’s at stake, Cora
30. The Fairies pride was at stake
31. At stake is our place in the universe as a sustainable biosphere for future generations
32. Everything was ruined! She had put all of her own and not at least Calras and Elior's fate at stake
33. “You’re making things sound so fucking simple while in fact you don’t have the slightest clue about what’s at stake here
34. What’s at stake in Vietnam, the six day war, Angola
35. “There’s a lot at stake here
36. Elior understood very well how much he had put at stake by leaving Tinby
37. “Poppycock!” said Michelle, who could be aggressive when core beliefs were at stake
38. ―This was the health of your children at stake
39. As historian Paul Johnson states, Stalin and Hitler acted almost as lone agents in this monopoly game, with the world at stake
40. “Nothing to worry about? My sister’s life is at stake,” Manda said, shaking her head at him
41. “Their lives are at stake
42. reputation is at stake, He had, in the Old Testament, adopted them as His people, and this adoption
43. at stake or even the height of his barnet … it was hungry and
44. very way of life is at stake here! If the dragons at large start
45. amount at stake, and the only chance we have of controlling what we
46. at stake in the upcoming heroin smuggling trial, one of the most expensive
47. The individual arguments were of minor importance but a principle was at stake
48. Abraham knew that once the physical struggle to succeed was over, there would be more than just a cold grave in a foreign land, he knew that death was not the end, that there was more than just his good name at stake and this motivated him to look beyond his own gratification
49. Do we have manipulation that reaches the point of conspiracy? Is there violation of the tax code? Or is this array of captive organizations within the boundary of the law? Since so much is at stake, I believe it is an area that can and should be subject to congressional investigation
50. at stake on that night for both of us