1.   Predictably, when they were forced to make the choice, they were unwilling to stake their lives.

2.   The causes of the crisis are simple, and yet devastating to thousands of people who have staked their lives on hogs.

3.   The osprey, he writes, has found the one thing it does well and then has staked its life on it.

4.   But Estrada said he would never threaten the freedom of the press and would stake his life to defend it.

5.   In some nations, like tiny St. Kitts, Georges ruined the crucial winter tourism season and sugar crop on which the islanders stake their lives.

6.   Major had staked the life of his government on the outcome of the EU budget vote.

7.   The government staked its life on the European vote and survived.

8.   Whether Congress and the American people are willing to stake the lives of American troops ... is certainly not clear.

9.   The Conservative government has not staked its life on the vote on the Scott report on the sales, but it might be weakened by a defeat.