5 sentences with 'stakes'
Example sentences and phrases with the word stakes and other words derived from it.
• « As the conservative appropriation of nationalism in the cases of Italy and Germany demonstrates, the stakes of political and cultural identity have changed significantly over the course of the nineteenth century. »
• « With the Congressional System a dead letter after the Crimean War, and with the wars of Italian and German unification demonstrating the stakes of intra-European conflict, all the major European powers jockeyed for position on the world stage during the second half of the nineteenth century. »
• « The USSR tested its first atomic bomb in August 1949, thus establishing the stakes of the conflict: the total destruction of human life. »
• « To disinfect stakes, rods, braces: scrub vigorously with pure bleach. Then rinse with diluted vinegar, in the case of the braces, to remove the smell of bleach. »
• « Anderson wrote of how a Mississippi slaveholder stripped a poor slave girl of all clothing, tied her to stakes, and whipped her with a handsaw until he broke her over her naked body. He eventually raped her person and became the father of a child by her. In addition, he always had a coloured lady in the house with him. »