21.   If someone reluctantly raises the ante, he usually has a strong hand.

22.   Instead, he and Armato prodded the Lakers to dump players in order to raise the ante.

23.   It raises the ante for us.

24.   It then raised the ante in December, saying it would cut several thousand additional workers.

25.   Putin, however, wants to raise the ante.

26.   Purchasing power has become more and more of an issue, and systems have allowed the business to be run in different ways and have raised the ante.

27.   She said they slowly graduated from stealing mail to murder, with Tulloch raising the ante as successive schemes failed or proved tedious.

28.   Some executives saw that as a sign that Murdoch was raising the ante with Zuckerman.

29.   The ante has been raised because the Big East now makes everything possible.

30.   The money, the increasing win-at-all-costs attitude, has raised the ante.