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What happened was he raised the ante and Michael called.

As each side tried to force the other's hand, Republican leaders raised the ante today.

Put that on the company books and raise the ante to the client.

But you were too dumb to figure that I could raise the ante.

A few minutes later, he raised the ante to $5.

She expects to raise the ante with her competitors even more.

At the rate she was raising the ante, he could not afford to let this game continue too long.

Each begins to raise the ante, and none are willing to back down.

It will be interesting to see how Apple raises the ante.

"If you can make him raise the ante, do it."

Yet its first words raise the ante even higher.

Thus far, however, Hilton has declined to raise the ante.

"He's always willing to raise the ante to get what he wants.

Nike has raised the ante; are they trying to force us all out?"

They probably planned to raise the ante until Holloway sold.

Analysts said shareholders were waiting for the brothers to raise the ante.

But Bell raised the ante the instant the cards were dealt.

"This letter raises the ante a bit more than we're comfortable with," an official said.

But, as with so much of sport today, succeeding teams tend to raise the ante.

We have to decide: do we raise the ante to meet him?

Windows Draw raises the ante for the low end of drawing packages.

So, when the Giants heard of the 49er offer later that summer, they finally raised the ante.

The "Massacre" promotion raises the ante in a most destructive way.

The impact rippled across Hollywood: other big stars will raise the ante themselves.

"Doing business in New York is hard enough," she said, "but this has really raised the ante."

That if he wanted to up the ante, I would answer in kind.

And by the end of the decade, the state will up the ante to 40 percent.

Remember the best teams up the ante when they are on top.

After last week and this one it's going to really need to up the ante.

When I turn it down, they start to sweat and up the ante.

To win this pot, they might have to up the ante.

We kissed for what seemed to be like 10 minutes until I decided to up the ante.

And you're waiting for me to up the ante, Jay thought.

He later decided to up the ante and make it an official release.

I think this is great opportunity for the printing industry to to up the ante.

West had upped the ante a little, but not too much.

You turned around and I upped the ante a little.

The new guidelines up the ante to four or five servings of each a day.

But for many in the industry, such backing only ups the ante.

But the pictures take on greater interest when she ups the ante.

They both knew that the star's presence would up the ante for an unknown director.

A doubling cube is used to up the ante of each game.

We decided it was time to up the ante.

We knew we had to up the ante from the first series.

"I'm arguing that they're not the final solution, and someone else could up the ante."

There were also government efforts to up the ante, to see if the men would be drawn in deeper.

And now Khan had to up the ante with this stunt!

"Famous or not, up the ante and try another offer.

The United end up the ante for good measure.

"It certainly ups the ante in terms of companies that would have food safety problems," she added.