These folks need to stop scaring everybody." Democrats concede the political stakes on the health-care issue are very high, both for the president and for the Democratic majorities in Congress.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

I mean those may have been the days of the cultural wars, but some would say that those wars never ended and we were still in them, in some places even in a sense more extreme than originally in the sense that the stakes seem very high.

那段时间确实是文化论战的年份，但也有一些人会说文化论战没有结束,现在还在继续，在某些地方,甚至比文化论战期间还要极端,因为利益关系更大了。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So the stakes are very high.

因此，利害关系很分明的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Mr.Brown says everyone knows the stakes are high.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01