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Mechanically he stacked the cards and put them away in their cases.

"You mean this fellow Allen stacked the cards last night?"

It's almost like they've done this to stack the cards in their favour.

Nature, it seemed, had stacked the cards against them.

"Oh, no." She was stacking the cards and putting them away.

"If you'll stack the cards, we'll cut to see who deals."

And for all he knew, maybe Luck had stacked the cards for him to win.

"Had he not tried to stack the cards against me, I would not have been able to anticipate the nature of his hand."

But if you have to, you know you can stack the cards.

Fallon stacked the cards again and got up.

"You go along and stack the cards."

Sorry, Devitt, you've tried to stack the cards on the wrong man."

Obviously, the storyteller is stacking the cards against Zeena for a purpose.

An unknown superspy had stacked the cards to cover a cunning crime.

Micah is so self-satisfied that possibly God would have ordered his fall if history hadn't already stacked the cards against him.

Opening the boxes,stacking the cards, I've been on the tills and serving the customer putting the things in bag.

You're stacking the cards against the kid."

If she thought less of him for stacking the cards in his favor, she gave no hint of it.

The doctor stacked the cards neatly.

Baldwin appeared to be shuffling the two decks; Gilead could see that he was actually stacking the cards.

The playwright, Nathan Mayer, has stacked the cards every which way, but he doesn't seem to be playing with a full deck.

But Alondrin has tak- en great care to stack the cards in his favor."

"That's stacking the cards, isn't it?"

The winner of a trick stacks the cards face-down in front of him, and leads to the next trick, which is again played clockwise.

By stacking the cards, I'm about to follow the advice of both Bill Gresham and Sprague de Camp.

They've stacked the deck against me in every possible way.

They stacked the deck against me right from the go.

That stacks the deck against those kids for the rest of their lives.

We need to stack the deck more in our favor.

You're starting to see so many young American girls stack the deck.

The issue for some producers now is how to stack the deck.

So in effect they have stacked the decks against state school children who want to study there.

"Yeah, it seems a man can never stack the deck too much in his favor."

We can demonstrate that it has not, no matter how she may stack the deck.

The Others were stacking the deck on us, no doubt of it.

"Boy, talk about trying to stack the deck in your favor."

And then there's the desire to believe things happened a certain way; when it comes to the past we all stack the deck.

How can you stack the deck any higher for the secretary?"

In particular, nature does not hate human beings enough to stack the deck against us.

He stacked the deck with a powerhouse of his own players.

"We would stack the deck for the test," he recalled.

"To me this really stacks the deck against mass consumer adoption."

In fact, they want to go back to the same policies that stacked the deck against middle-class Americans for way too many years.

They stacked the deck on people like her, making that sort of outcome almost inevitable.

I stacked the deck against you, before I played my hand.

Personally, for next year I'm working on stacking the deck in favor of the former.

Two other choices did stack the decks for Beethoven, however.

Wireman says when it comes to the past, we all stack the deck.

Employers often stack the deck, he said, "and we are for fair play."

With the special power that only film can muster, the documentary often stacks the deck.