Even with Willie this would have been a desperate gamble; without him it was sure death.

Nor could it imagine Japan's will to take so desperate a gamble.

It would delay the moment when his people might suspect that he was making a desperate gamble.

Once again, it was in the same moment of time that Steve decided to stake everything on one last desperate gamble.

It was a desperate gamble, one which he had hoped not to make.

His idea, that might mean no proof would be needed, was a desperate gamble.

But analysts say this may be something of a desperate gamble.

"It seems a rather desperate gamble, but where does the madness come in?"

It would be a desperate gamble to call Caleb himself.

And with my legs giving out, I made one last desperate gamble.