(n.) A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position.
Example Sentences:
(1) Channing Tatum will play the superhero Gambit in a forthcoming spin-off movie from the X-Men series, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
(2) The gambit worked, and Miami made four straight NBA Finals appearances, winning championships in 2012 and 2013, James taking Finals MVP honors both times.
(3) By his own admission, Paul’s latest gambit will be short-lived.
(4) Russia's Syria gambit could be a game changer – but only if it hastens transition Read more “You all know well that in the territory of Syria and Iraq … a number of countries are carrying out bombing strikes, including the United States,” said Ivanov.
(5) We're dandy [Small Talk is dandy largely because he feels he has thought up an incredibly original and amusing opening gambit].
(6) Putin’s military gambit in Syria is the inverse of Obama’s.
(7) The plan will be regarded as an opening gambit from the broadcasters, with the main political parties also talking to other media organisations about potential leaders’ debate formats.
(8) His appeal to sectarianism as an electoral gambit morphed into something more dangerous.
(9) Six criticisms of the classification recently published (The Sicilian Gambit) are discussed in detail.
(10) With global markets gyrating, doubt hanging over the rescue deal and Greeks denouncing the gambit as a guarantee of their crisis-hit country achieving bankruptcy and default, Papandreou might be forgiven for feeling he has made a mistake.
(11) The Osborne-Darling gambit assumed that money given to banks was being "pumped into the economy" (as the BBC constantly put it) and would trickle down into recovery.
(12) Did you read today that France have closed the refugee camps?” was one chap’s gambit to me.
(13) They see the law as a gambit to shut clinics down, and in the course of this lawsuit, they have mustered some proof.
(14) People familiar with the US treasury department playbook, and the financial weaknesses of the Russian economy, say there are far more aggressive and dangerous gambits available as Washington seeks to retaliate against Moscow for its two-month assault on eastern Ukraine .
(15) "And he's got a really good heart … I think he'll be great for Gambit."
(16) With 10 minutes left Hamid had to make the save of the game, blocking Saborio's goal bound shot at point blank range after the ball had been nudged to the striker on the edge of the six yard box, then Kreis made his final gambit, bringing off Salcedo for Devon Sandoval, the team's leading scorer in the competition.
(17) Adass’s own pre-election gambit, setting out the sector’s stall and warning that it faces “make or break” choices in the next parliament, was an effective intervention of a kind that the association has in the past been reluctant to make lest it be seen to be political.
(18) It is feared that Britain’s opening gambit will fall short of the status quo – with conditions attached.
(19) It exists purely as a broadbrush gambit in the attritional process of freaking out his closest rivals: we picture Arsène Wenger coughing awkwardly on the Emirates bench and going for a bit of a walk along the touchline, Jose Mourinho discreetly wafting his coat-tails and muttering about last night's seafood risotto.
(20) But environmentalists believe that as a low opening gambit, it created a fait accompli by not pushing the politicians to be more ambitious.
Sacrificed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Sacrifice
Example Sentences:
(1) The animals were sacrificed every 12 hr from D12.0 through D17.0.
(2) After 3 and 6 months, blood collected by cardiocentesis using ether anesthesia and then sacrificed to remove CNS and internal organs.
(3) Light microscopic studies of pancreata from mice sacrificed at this time demonstrated insulitis and beta cell necrosis.
(4) Nine months later, the animals were sacrificed, the esophagus and the gastric stump were removed for histologic examination.
(5) Polyribosomes isolated from the livers of rats sacrificed 6 h after treatment with actinomycin D showed a 42% reduction in their capacity to bind anti-RSA Fab'.
(6) After 2 weeks the rats were sacrificed and the brain damage evaluated by comparing the weight of the lesioned and unlesioned hemispheres.
(7) Males were then sacrificed and organ weights, testicular spermatid counts, and cauda epididymal sperm count and sperm morphology were obtained.
(8) Rats were sacrificed at 1.5, 4, 8 and 24 h after injection and heart MIBG activity was determined.
(9) The rats were then sacrificed at either one or four hours after the injections and their brains analyzed for monoamine and metabolite content using High Performance Liquid Chromatography with Electrochemical Detection.
(10) The animals were sacrificed on the 14th day of pregnancy and implantation and resorption indices were studied.
(11) It is a tragedy that he abandoned Iraq, sacrificing the gains secured by American blood and treasure.
(12) The central nervous system of the animals sacrificed in the time course of the infectious process was studied by light and luminescent microscopy.
(13) Twenty-four hours later, at peak severity of the inflammatory response, the animals were sacrificed.
(14) The animals were sacrificed on days 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12.
(15) Rats permitted to recover for 13 weeks and then sacrificed had lost almost all their rods (p less than 0.001) while the cones were reduced by about 50% (p less than 0.01).
(16) The surgical removal of branchiomeric paragangliomas necessitates preparation of a small saphenous vein bypass in case it is not possible to avoid sacrificing the internal carotid artery.
(17) These rats were sacrificed at various periods after injection of each preparation: 3 hours, 24 hours and 48 hours in all preparations.
(18) Our older population is the most impressive, self-sacrificing and imaginative part of our entire community.
(19) In another experiment, animals were sacrificed on estrus of the next cycle and the oviducts examined for the number of ova.
(20) Implanted rabbits sacrificed after 3 and 6 days showed taking of the new mesothelial cells both by direct morphological observation and by autoradiography.