At times one even feels that Moore is pushing his characters around here, that he is stacking the deck of his plot to oppose corrupt Napoleonic gloire against fervid Arab saintliness, and the coldness of Western science against the passion of Middle Eastern faith.
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_HB 95, authored by Rep . Ruth Jones McClendon, D-San Antonio, aims to prevent school districts from stacking the deck at the public hearings that are required when districts want to start the school year earlier than the law allows.
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:: : Given how lopsided ( more than 2 : 1 against proposal ) the vote was, if Alaric was stacking the deck, he did a very weak job of it .-talk ) 20 : 26, 29 October 2009 ( UTC)
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A pro-Beijing newspaper in Hong Kong, Wen Wei Po, recently reported that one way out of the predicament for Hong Kong and China would be to add more 12 seats to the legislature, in effect stacking the deck against the pro-democracy side.
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But he said that while there were abuses, with some companies stacking the deck in their own courts so that they almost always win, studies by his organization and independent academics have concluded that company-established courts have not, as a rule, been biased against workers.
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She also goes to an extreme, stacking the deck with a ridiculously sexist confession by Norman Mailer, in which he admits, " I doubt if there will be a really exciting woman writer until the first whore becomes a call girl and tells her tale ."
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Anyone predisposed to object to so-called " political correctness " saw the student as a manipulative witch; others saw Mamet as the manipulator, stacking the deck to make the woman seem like a witless pawn in a grand scheme to emasculate the powers that be.
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Rep . Greg Ganske, R-Iowa, who is a plastic surgeon, accused Republican leaders of " going back to the old days of stacking the deck against anything that doesn't happen to fit in to the special interests of insurers and HMOs ."
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George Andrew, a retired deputy head of counter-terrorism in New York for the FBI, said investigators typically do surveillance and background checks on terror suspects before they are taken into custody, " stacking the decks before they even begin to talk to them ."
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Hall has failed to create a hit in two previous shows, but this is a risk everyone seems gung-ho about to improve the odds of a long shot, or, as Leslie Moonves, the president of CBS Television, put it, " stacking the deck ."
