Sentences with phrase «stack the deck where»

As I talk about in my online dating guide, I'm all about the numbers of dates I can get so I want to stack the deck where my odds are the best.

Not exact matches

That may be cold comfort for merchants facing down online card fraud, though, where the deck is decidedly stacked against them.

Now if it's going to be a debate as opposed to a discussion, where people are earnestly inquiring after the truth, then maybe you shy away from that because the deck is stacked against you.

Katniss and District 12's male tribute Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) are shipped to the Capitol, where they very quickly realize how stacked the deck is against them after meeting the «career» tributes from richer districts.

But where Eastwood meticulously stacked the deck to cast Frankie Dunn's ultimate decision in the most flattering light possible, Affleck bravely does the reverse, conditioning the audience to anticipate one outcome and then offering another far less tidy.

As is the case with his best - selling Easy Rawlins series, Mosley's Minton / Jones novels are set in»50s Los Angeles, where the deck is routinely stacked against the black...

If you follow some of the best (value) investors, they seem to manage to invest in situations where the current / historical facts and figures already stack the deck in their favour — they don't need to rely on the future to bail them out...

My favorite fight scene in the episode was where you go to The Stacked Deck bar as Bruce meeting Selina and some British thugs come in to take her out.

From where I'm standing, you are just trying to stack the deck with your usual cherry - picked attacks.

[It is] a system where the deck is stacked heavily against him.

The US investors know what to do, where to go, and play with a stacked deck.

Even worse, every court appearance where you don't win stacks the deck against you!