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at stake

in danger of being lost. About 3000 jobs are at stake if the company moves to another state.

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For this decline political confusion is the chief cause; first, in the renewal of the Hundred Years' War, with its sordid effort to deprive another nation of its liberty, and then in the brutal and meaningless War of the Roses, a mere cut-throat civil butchery of rival factions with no real principle at stake. A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context Her whole happiness seemed at stake, while the affair was in suspense, and everything secured when it was determined that the lodgings should be taken for another fortnight. Northanger Abbey by Austen, Jane View in context If you don't succeed with them it only proves that you've not enough cash, but in this case one's dignity's at stake. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context More results

References in classic literature

For this decline political confusion is the chief cause; first, in the renewal of the Hundred Years' War, with its sordid effort to deprive another nation of its liberty, and then in the brutal and meaningless War of the Roses, a mere cut-throat civil butchery of rival factions with no real principle at stake.

A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context

Her whole happiness seemed at stake, while the affair was in suspense, and everything secured when it was determined that the lodgings should be taken for another fortnight.

Northanger Abbey by Austen, Jane View in context

If you don't succeed with them it only proves that you've not enough cash, but in this case one's dignity's at stake.

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

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