Confuse the voters enough, and eventually more will be likely to stay with the horse they know.

Betting on Ukraine

The Year of Betting Conservatively

So it had been a huge gamble, but it had paid off.

PERES your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

PERES Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

Betting on the Tortoise in Japan

The Global Stake in China s Anti Corruption Reform

Of the two approaches, Germany s is the more unusual bet.

Upping the ante could turn the tables.

Thus, the stakes for both the US and Iran are very high.

The stakes of geo technological competition are higher than ever.

Most adherents are Arab Swahili or Persian, but there are also people of Indian descent.

So the stakes in Washington are high for President Hu.

Certainly, this seems to be the prevailing bet in the spin on global warming.

Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.

Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.

Today, there are many more players involved, and the stakes energy security, above all are far higher now.

But, rather than folding their cards, European leaders doubled down. They understand that their gamble will be immensely costly if it proves wrong.

The last and perhaps most difficult part of the wager is Europeanizing the alliance.

Now therefore, please give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.

And behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow. A crown was given to him, and he came forth conquering, and to conquer.

I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.

Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.

And I saw, and behold a white horse and he that sat on him had a bow and a crown was given unto him and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

The first concerns building European defense in harmony with NATO, rather than in opposition to it.

And mantis shrimp are officially the fastest measured feeding strike of any animal system. So our first surprise.

They each killed his man. The Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them. Ben Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.

And they slew every one his man and the Syrians fled and Israel pursued them and Ben hadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse with the horsemen.

The presence of so many armed civilians in Chávez s beloved militias will raise the stakes even higher.

And mantis shrimp are called mantis shrimp after the praying mantises, which also have a fast feeding appendage. And I started to think, well, maybe it will be interesting, while listening to their sounds, to figure out how these animals generate very fast feeding strikes.

AK And once we put Katherine through that particular brand of hell, we knew that we might be able to make a horse, which could be ridden.

So how can this one way betting be stopped? The scary answer may be that it does not end until governments run out of money (as in Ireland) or the public runs out of sympathy (as in Germany vis à vis the rest of Europe).

These markets needed the big banks to act as stabilizers and take the other side of bets.

And, if the bets don t pay off, the cost to the American taxpayer will be even larger.

BJ So Tom gave us a call and said, Do you think you could make us a horse for a show to happen at the National Theatre?

In 1996, betting on Shiller s regression analyses was a reasonable and perhaps intelligent thing to do.

So this is a mantis shrimp. There are the eyes up here, and there's that raptorial appendage, and there's the heel.

Fifty years of communist misrule have left what was once the most advanced city in Asia a distant also ran.

Another came forth, a red horse. To him who sat on it was given power to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another. There was given to him a great sword.

And there went out another horse that was red and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another and there was given unto him a great sword.

China s new leadership has not just lowered its growth target it has upped the ante on the economy s rebalancing imperatives.

Now, with the use of chemical weapons, probably by the Syrian government (and possibly by both sides), the US has again ratcheted up the stakes.

Although investors believe that the backstop is unlikely to be used, its mere presence dissuades them from betting against Italy.