Sentences with phrase «stacked deck»

As you see, I've stacked the deck in your favor.

Dual Wi - Fi antenna prongs on the receiver unit's rear hint at a stacked deck of wireless options.

Recently, certain «consumer advocates,» who, more factually stated, are spokesmen for personal injury trial lawyers, have made outrageous claims that Texas» recent civil justice reforms have stacked the deck against consumers.

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

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The role of the United States in confronting the global climate crisis has been cast into serious doubt after an election that stacked the deck in Congress in favor of fossil fuel industries.

«What we have known for decades is that increasing greenhouse gas concentrations — due to human activities — have stacked the deck dramatically towards more record warm years, and fewer record cold years.»

It is even trickier with a stacked deck.

The presence of that warm water stacked the deck for a monster El Niño to occur in 2015, according to the study's authors.

«Overall, we know that climate change has stacked the deck so that this kind of event happens more frequently.

Speaking to VG247 at an event in Australia, creative director Lars Gustavsson accepted that the studio should be «slapped» for the way it stacked the deck against new players.

Another card taken from the souls - series» stacked deck is it's incredibly in depth lore that isn't thrust upon you.

It's a culture that's fueled by a desire to feel accomplished, by winning out against a stacked deck.

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.

Or, at least, find out how a stacked deck of stocks performs against an index.

However, his analysis also relies upon a serious observation that high frequency trading and the rapid movement of large blocks of stock has stacked the deck hugely against mom and pop.

In inviting Philip Jones and Andrew Albanese to join me, I stacked the deck entirely, admittedly, with the best reporters and commentators on the English - speaking industry we have working today.

Maybe — maybe — if the implied arrangement included a 5 - day turn - around, I could buy into it; but I've heard too many horror stories of eight - week responses and year - long silences to see anything but a woefully stacked deck.

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Stacked deck, anyone?

Argue forcefully for a process of binding arbitration which is a stacked deck system ensuring that teachers and politicians reach amicable compromise while the education experience for children remains severely compromised.

But, as the NY Times points out, the studio has stacked the deck with vocal and critically acclaimed talent, as Efron's a «High School Musical» alum and Zendaya has her own musical career.

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.

Obviously a product of the Stacked Deck school of screenwriting, Sutter burdens hardscrabble hero Billy Hope (Gyllenhaal) with a string of travails that would make Job weep.

To be fair, he's stacked the deck in his favor with an A list cast that includes Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, and the late Alan Rickman, in one of his final roles, but wouldn't you do the same?

Looking at the cast for The Disaster Artist, we also see a stacked deck.

The film stacked the deck for success by modeling itself on a number of recent hits as it borrowed from J. J. Abrams» Star Trek, in that it was a reset of the franchise, and from The Avengers (and Fast & Furious), in that it is a team - up movie that brings together cast members from previous films.

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.

It's not a message that audiences will extract as a prickly needle from the haystack of situational (read random) comic set - pieces that the filmmakers play like trump cards from the bottom of a stacked deck, but it does anchor film's narrative boat.

The authors stacked the deck in that study.

«Overall, we know that climate change has stacked the deck so that this kind of event happens more frequently.

«The probability of all those things happening out of a convergence of natural variability in the climate system — it strikes me as a lower probability than recognizing that we stacked the deck in favor of [these conditions.]»

During Tuesday's meeting, Southold Democratic chairman Art Tillman said the Town Board «stacked the deck» against his party and that the Republican committee played large part in the re-appointment of Mr. Bergen.

Many of the Sanders delegates are angered by the news that DNC staffers may have stacked the deck against their candidate in favor of Hillary Clinton.

During an interview with me on «Capital Tonight» last night, Johnson slammed the event hosted by his Democratic conference colleague, saying Perkins had stacked the deck with charter school opponents.

Yes very sad but NY has stacked the deck to the point that this plant loses millions of dollars every year.

Many of the Sanders delegates are angered by the news that DNC staffers may have stacked the deck against their candidate in favor of Clinton.

The Golden Eagles stacked the deck in the non-conference schedule to earn an at - large bid to the Big Dance.

Coppy stacked the deck by signing guys in 2015 - 2016 IFA under what was promised, so that the Braves had more money to make a big splash in 2016 - 2017.

While it may take a few races for Montoya to get re-acclimated to open - wheel racing, Penske has stacked the deck in his efforts to both return to Victory Lane at Indianapolis and pick up the team's first championship since 2006 (Sam Hornish Jr..)

I just think the NHL stacked the deck (see what I did there?)

It seems to me that Ford as well as his colleagues hands human freedom a stacked deck, more stacked than experience indicates.

I'm a gambling man, and the FACT that the mathematical probability of us having this conversation at this point in time is pretty much impossible, unless, wait for it... wait for it... it's not an accident (stacked deck).

The God you believe in created us unequally and stacked the deck in favor of some and against others.

But even in the early 1970s, the Christian Century stacked the deck against Israel.

It would be much easier if he didn't have to play this game with himself... I mean... he knows the outcome before the game even understand he does nt even tell us the damn rules... what kind of a god plays by rules that only he knows and doesn't even tell us... probably because he already knows the outcome... its like playing cards with a stacked deck and he; s the dealer laughing at us all because he has all the aces... I hate gods who do that.

Among deprived minority groups, for instance, the gang offers the young male a quick road to personal selfhood and social respect in his own group and even in the larger society that has stacked the deck against him and his peers.

The Christian God has stacked the deck against mankind.

Of course, the lag in scaling isn't all attributable to women's fear of the fundraising process — there's considerable evidence that they face a stacked deck.