(1) The main findings were that, as measured on the ARCI, "simulated winning at gambling" produced a euphoria similar to the euphoria induced by the psychoactive drugs of abuse, particularly psychomotor stimulants; secondly, that as a group, the pathological gamblers, demonstrated elevated psychopathy scale scores similar to psychopathy scores found among persons with histories of drug dependence.
(2) That brought him to the attention of Anderson, who cast him as a gambler in Hard Eight.
(3) Depressed gamblers (n = 14) were compared with normal controls (n = 41) for antecedent life events.
(4) Differences between the gamblers and alcoholics were few, with a trend for the alcoholics to be similar to the gamblers and intermediate between the other two groups.
(5) A total of 1,616 subjects were involved in its development: 867 patients with diagnoses of substance abuse and pathological gambling, 213 members of Gamblers Anonymous, 384 university students, and 152 hospital employees.
(6) Compulsive gamblers showed side effects of an addiction like strong tendencies for denial and rationalization.
(7) (Titles from his current album, Losin' Lately Gambler, include Steer Rider's Blues, This Is My Prairie, and Long Gone To Saskatchewan.)
(8) Matched groups of problem and social gamblers were compared in terms of their locus of control and their responses to the Myers Briggs Type Indicator.
(9) Vince Cable today went ahead with his critique on the "murky" world of high finance, railing against the "spivs and gamblers" of the City despite a backlash against pre-briefed elements of the speech.
(10) The prosecution portrayed Adoboli , whose combined salary and bonus rose from £30,000 to £360,000 during eight years with UBS, as a reckless gambler obsessed with his status as a rising star and desperate to boost his bonus.
(11) A study of gamblers' motives leads to the formulation of a new theory of human motivation.
(12) Profile surveys, completed Rotter I-E scales, and questionnaires on past relapse behavior were collected from 108 New Jersey compulsive gamblers who attended Gamblers Anonymous, and an attempt was made, based on the findings, to predict incidence of compulsive gamblers' relapse.
(13) The author observed that the notion that a shareholder owns part of a company 'makes as much sense to a shareholder as it would to the average gambler to imagine that he owns part of Lady Luck, running in the 2.30 tomorrow afternoon'".
(14) Therefore, we examined cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of GABA in pathological gamblers and normal controls.
(15) Updated at 1.35am GMT 1.32am GMT Coin toss Florida State wins the toss (no I did not see if it were heads or tails, gamblers of the world).
(16) The Scale and a descriptive questionnaire on demographics and actual gambling behaviour was administered to 26 problem gamblers and 40 players of different levels of involvement.
(17) Pathological gamblers entering a comprehensive treatment program were thoroughly assessed before treatment and 6 months after completion of treatment.
(18) Once he had assembled his cast in the rehearsal rooms, Lepage mixed in some of his own family folklore, the tale of a grand-uncle who became so indebted to Chinese gamblers that he was forced to barter his pregnant daughter.
(19) After authorities ended a casino monopoly a decade ago, newly wealthy gamblers from mainland China started pouring in to glitzy new resorts built by foreign operators such as Las Vegas Sands and Wynn Resorts.
(20) The substantial differences between problem and pathological gamblers in the general population and those entering treatment programs have serious implications for prevention, outreach, and treatment efforts.
Parlay
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) That winning year at Wimbledon he bet on himself, parlaying $500 into $105,000.
(2) Djokovic is hiding his problems better, but they're still visible in his tennis, as he parlays advantage into break point with a couple of unforced errors before lashing a crosscourt backhand wide – way wide – to relinquish control of the set and match.
(3) The measures ultimately passed, but the 51-year-old state senator from Fort Worth parlayed the national attention and local momentum into the Democratic nomination in a state where the party has not won a statewide election since 1994.
(4) But now they have another free kick in a more advanced position, which they parlay into a corner via another set of tussles.
(5) Footballers have a relatively short shelf-life, and while some of them successfully parlay their time on the pitch into presenting or punditry, others struggle.
(6) Could he parlay some of that coolness into his choice of film projects?
(7) Similarly, in Oregon, a man named Yonas Fikre is suing the government for allegedly attempting to parlay his no-fly list placement into getting him to infiltrate a prominent Portland mosque.
(8) Only the most spectacular of collapses, parlayed with the most unlikely bursts of success for a gaggle of flawed pursuers, would prevent it.
(9) With him goes another connection to the pre-early MLS era of “lost generation” US players, who parlayed often modest talents into European careers whose obscure starts would be unrecognizable to, say, DeAndre Yedlin.
(10) As Gabrielle puts it in the book: “Nick had no outer skin; no defences with which to parlay.” That image of Nick Drake as too beautiful for this world (like the Van Gogh of Don McLean’s song Starry Starry Night) has proved enduring even if, as Gabrielle tells me, it misses the stubbornness and steel of her brother: “I used to find him incredibly frustrating, obstinate and difficult, but I cannot remember ever not loving him or not admiring him,” she says.
(11) The extra money earned has been parlayed into bolstering their own reserves, and the development of both women’s cricket and disability cricket, both of which are as healthy in this country now, eight years later, as they have been at any point in their history.
(12) But parlaying these advantages into physician loyalty to the system is difficult.
(13) With this as his stake money, he parlayed his way into a takeover of the Golden Nugget casino, then in old, unworldly hands.
(14) They parlay it into a free kick on a foul on Nagbe.Johnson will curl it in from near the left corner of the box... 4.47am GMT 22 mins Free kick for Portland inside the Sounders half.
(15) He parlayed the global success of the music he had helped invent into a high-profile remixing career – Madonna and Michael Jackson were clients, his astonishing reworking of Sounds Of Blackness' 1992 single The Pressure was the perfect example of what he could do – but stopped making records altogether in the late 90s, fearing his style of music had become outmoded in an era of hard house and trance, and had to have his foot amputated in 2008 following a snowboarding accident.
(16) "For some, of course, the licence fee settlement was a nasty surprise, because they had hoped that a 2011 licence fee negotiation could have been parlayed into a root-and-branch debate about what the BBC should and shouldn't do and about whether the licence fee should exist at all," Thompson said.
(17) He was thwarted in his attempt to parlay a 25% shareholding in Telewest into the UK's biggest cable company by snapping up NTL.
(18) And here's me trying to avoid parlaying that into a Ronnie gag.
(19) Standups usually save their best till last; they end on a zinger, and parlay that laugh into a euphoric, valedictory round of applause.
(20) Rather than achieving fame off the back of hundreds of shitty club gigs, he made his name thanks to a stream of wildly popular tweets, and has parlayed that into a successful live career.