Sentences with phrase «to stack the deck»

In some regions, there is evidence that the hottest temperatures may increase at a faster rate than the average, further stacking the deck in favor of extreme heat.

We believe they should be inclusive and shouldn't stack the deck against others who may not fit a financial or social profile for early exclusivity.

This made me feel as if they were stacking the deck for me to fail.

So consider some additional tactics to help stack the deck in your favor.

But I'm OK with stacking the deck on a show dominated by women and the stories of mothers.

So, why not stack the deck in your favor, and invest in low - cost index mutual funds instead of high - cost actively - managed mutual funds?

Look at how stacked the deck is against the dating industry.

The problem is, I feel the game unfairly stacks the deck against you.

On this blog we have a lot of conversations about stacking the deck in favor of other healthy choices.

While there will be age discrimination with some employers, you can still stack the deck in your favor.

At first, it's actually pretty funny how the game stacks the deck against the player so excessively.

I'm stacking the deck here with my silly numbers; no one really offers a million contracts to buy 10.

But this arrangement stacks the deck in favor of the union.

But maybe that could be stacking the deck because there's already science about it.

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.

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.

The therapist may choose to stack the deck prior to the session.

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

Now there are other things I did that you can do as well that will help stack the deck in your favour.

I really wanted to challenge myself by adding an extra two doses of each color to really stack the deck!

Instead, we are stacking the deck against them.

How about stacking the deck in your favor by having your adorable students film a promo for back - to - school night to encourage attendance?

It's also not a bad idea to stack the deck in favor of healthy alternatives.

His own views are well known, but he didn't stack the deck and was delighted to be challenged by his students.

It's like stacking a deck of cards with ten extra aces and ten extra face cards; the loaded deck increases your chance of hitting blackjack in a game of 21 - but what you «win» might be allergies or a predisposition to cancer.

By refusing to allow the public to speak out on this important issue and then stacking the deck by only featuring paid pro-Common Core ambassadors turns the Education Committee's «informational hearing» into nothing short of a bad joke and makes it clear that the Democrats have joined Governor Malloy and Commissioner Pryor on their path of self - destruction.

Sure, Erica would have a nice, handsome boyfriend, but giving her the sweetest, handsomest younger man in the world does seem like stacking the deck.

I don't think you know what that fallacy actually is, here is the definition: Special pleading, also known as stacking the deck, ignoring the counter evidence, slanting, and one - sided as sessment, [1] is a form of spurious argument where a position in a dispute introduces favourable details or excludes unfavourable details by alleging a need to apply additional considerations without proper criticism of these considerations.

But he also stacks the deck so entirely in Jimmy's favor that the film never rises above the level of a mildly stirring protest song.

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Both teams could stack the deck if they know they have a closer with 20 college homers on the roster.

Hormones, then, merely stack the deck in favor of specific outcomes.

It's not even like the filmmaker stacks the deck with nothing but closet racists and alt - righters; one gentleman is out and proud, another is Argentinian and the assembled visitors are all basically your run - of - the - mill bros. (Though Get Out's Caleb Landry Jones is present and accounted for in full twitchy - creepy mode, because of course.)

Vinterberg's The Hunt, a study in rumor and fear fueling self - righteous hysteria, and Haneke's Amour, an unflinching, almost clinic portrait in the physical deterioration and emotional fallout of old age and debilitating illness), frame their subjects with a mix of objectivity and compassion, and then stack the decks to set out protagonists in opposition to the world.

The full report documents how school finance policy choices at the federal, state, and district levels systematically stack the deck against students who need the most support...

«You had months to think about whether you wanted my pre-trial views or not,» she told Snyder, and stressed she hasn't made a final decision yet: «My view was a tentative view... The deck is not stacked against Apple unless the evidence stacks the deck against Apple.»

But do you really believe any of our so called leaders would fund real research and involve the public in a real discussion without stacking the deck without a preconceived outcome.

We oppose efforts to weaken basic legal protections and further stack the deck against Americans.

Why stack the deck even further against yourself by taking on a financially weak company?

I'm not the only one who's learned not to trust Amazon reviews because too many authors have their friends stack the deck.

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...

Critics of the congresswoman, who have been pressuring her for months to hold a town hall, had accused her of stacking the deck at this event.

Challenges also usually involve some level of tracking and accountability, and are often also (naturally or formally) social: all these things stack the decks of change in your favor.

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

With international financial and political institutions, global health and welfare organizations, and even human rights institutions stacking the deck against baby girls, is there any hope that we can help put a stop to the spreading global trend of sex - selective abortion?

Whether by intention or misreading, Nord says, these decisions are used to equate secular interest with the nonreligious, thereby stacking the deck against religion in publicly funded schools.