Human sacrifice is much in vogue right now. The Republican right thinks that people who get on its nerves, especially women, should be sent to the stake. . .
There is more at stake here than just our lives. It is the lives around us.
Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.
Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives.
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
Now go and stake some vamps. Especially the sparkly emo ones.
Dracula, who said while they drove a wooden stake into his heart, Boy, I sure hope this is heartburn. Never got a dinner!
There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.
Vitam impendre vero. (To stake one's life for the truth. )
When love takes you by the hand and leaves you better, that is home. That's the place to stake your claim and build your life.
My cheek stung and throbbed. I remained on the floor of the cave. Belen stood between me and Kerrick. ". . . temper in check. She's a sweet girl," Belen said. "She's a healer, Belen. And no longer a girl. Healing Ryne is all I care about. All you should care about, as well. You know-" "Yes, I know what's at stake. " Belen spat the words. "But if you raise your hand to her again, I'll rip your arm from its socket.
As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity.
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.
What I think is at stake in 2012, is whether the five or six strong conservatives elected to the Senate in 2010 become 10 or 12. And if that happens, it will fundamentally shift the character of the Senate. It will shift the balance.
Many young Muslims see no opportunities for themselves and do not feel they have control over their lives or a stake in their nation's future. Such pessimism leads to disengagement. We risk losing a generation of young Muslims to apathy and extremism.
The only system which is truly secure is one which is switched off and unplugged, locked in a titanium lined safe, buried in a concrete bunker, and is surrounded by nerve gas and very highly paid armed guards. Even then, I wouldn't stake my life on it.
Companies should increasingly see themselves as major corporate citizens with a wider responsibility to the community. Nothing less than their reputation - their image - is at stake.
When the Champions League is at stake,. . . you do everything you can, whether it's called gamesmanship or cheating, to put the opposition off.
There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.