at stake *

Too many lives were at stake for him to move before he had enough information.

Yet much more than next month's deal is at stake.

You couldn't be too sure of anything when big money was at stake.

Their very lives would have to be at stake first.

Probably they didn't understand the half of what was at stake, he thought, but no matter.

After all, I now have more at stake than you.

Too much was at stake to make any wrong ones.

Not when the lives of his wife and children were at stake.

For the Government now in power, much is at stake.

The future of a country and its population are at stake.