Sentences with phrase «still stack the deck»

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In Clinton's campaign video, she said, «Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top.

De Blasio said there is still a lot of work to be done, and his mission in his second term would be to make sure New Yorkers no longer feel the deck is stacked against them.

Since the announcement of the special election, the deck was stacked against any possible candidate outside the local political machine, one which Silver still controls.

Both principal actors have a strong enough sense of their characters, even as they're pulled into increasingly harrowing places, to make the film a more successful one than Loach's last few, but it's still schematic and predictable, and it aggressively stacks the deck against Blake and Kattie in a way that makes it more effective as social activism, and less so as drama.

Brizé stacks the deck more than is necessary — Thierry's son has what appears to be cerebral palsy and requires expensive care, and one of the desperately poor folks Thierry apprehends later commits suicide — but there's still something potent about seeing this passionate scrapper all but shut down after finally achieving his hard - fought goal.

Many congrats to all for getting the paper published — it is clear the decks are still stacked against sceptic papers, but I hope papers like this and the events of climategate will make sure editors are increasingly objective about publication.

Meanwhile, with cozy relationships between judges and local lawyers stacking the deck against defendants, largely rural Madison County still serves as the nation's asbestos lawsuit capital.