So Mr Papandreou may have looked at the file and said, I can't sell this to my party, nor to my voters, and the business elite are emigrating en masse, so throw the dice.

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Nor does she believe that Mr Murdoch's strategy represents the last throw of the dice for some of his loss-making papers.

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But no matter what Dortmund can achieve in the first leg of its Champions League semifinal against Real Madrid, a sense of gloom crept in on Tuesday, the feeling that this European run might be a last throw of the dice.

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Monetising corporate debt is the last throw of the reflationary dice and will signpost one last, desperate attempt to keep the old system alive.

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Hitzfeld made his final throw of the dice with the introduction of record goalscorer Alexander Frei, but for all their huff and puff, the breakthrough never came.

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United also replaced Rooney with Carlos Tevez and Anderson with Ryan Giggs in what was clearly a last throw of the dice by Ferguson as time ran out.

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But a look at the statistics for patents - a key indicator of commercial intent - reveals how many countries and companies are prepared to throw the graphene dice.

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Experimenters have teased out this surprising conclusion by inviting subjects to gamble on the throw of dice.

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The hyper troupe makes a manic attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes, and admission cost is quirkily-based on the throw of a dice.

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The dice are getting more and more loaded against us with every throw.

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