In Mozambique, cotton producers say that it's not just agricultural subsidies that are stacked against them.
And like roulette, the potential payoff here is high, but the odds are stacked against you.
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The odds are stacked against us, but it doesn't stop us preparing to try and win a match.
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In the longer term the odds are stacked against secrecy, particularly in countries that practise openness in other areas.
Still the odds are stacked against him, which in turn represents a broader problem facing those who seek dramatic change in India.
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Without those two elements in place, growth simply becomes a game of foolishly placing bets when the odds are stacked against you.
The Supreme Court reviews less than 2% of the cases presented, so the odds are stacked against the Court taking any one case.
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But because of this negative myth-making, when social progress is made, I fear that the cards are stacked against us hearing about it.
If you are against the mandate, the odds are stacked against you in that particular forum given their recent history on rulings involving the Commerce Clause.
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The 2008 election offers a chance for Washington to get back in tune with growth, but for now Washington's processes are stacked against a quick economic recovery.
Mayawati, Jayalalithaa and Banerjee have suffered even physical assaults by uncouth rivals, a remarkable pattern that reveals how high the odds are stacked against women politicians in India.
The Redskins were among the teams hoping to be in the running for Peyton Manning, but the odds are stacked against the former Indianapolis Colts quarterback coming to Washington.
By always scoring tax rate reductions as losing huge amounts of revenues and tax increases as automatically lowering the deficit, the Beltway rules are stacked against sound tax policy.
Even if the system is pretty good and the odds are stacked against the cheaters, if there are enough players then some of the cheaters will get away with it, nonetheless.
Today, the sad reality is that if you're born poor, if your parents didn't go to college, if you don't know your father, if English isn't spoken at home then the odds are stacked against you.
Tam Fry, from the National Obesity Forum, says it is an "insult" to people on low incomes who are working hard to provide their children with a healthy diet when the odds are stacked against them.
The BBC's Paul Anderson in Islamabad says most women who fall prey to attacks designed to restore the slighted honour of a family, clan or tribe, accept their fate - believing that tribal or feudal leaders are too powerful to resist and that the police and judicial systems are stacked against them.
Dr Mahathir may have shuffled the pack, but the cards are still stacked against him.
Still, the odds are stacked heavily against these approaches to the problem.
You are playing a game with a few million of your very closest friends and the odds are stacked heavily against you.
But given the thorny politics and vested interests involved in a sector making up roughly a sixth of the American economy, the odds are still stacked against it.
The odds are massively stacked against the apes, but if they fail to perform like the children, the invariable conclusion is that they lack the mental capacities under investigation.
The chances of winning are stacked astronomically against you.
In an era where Danica Patrick can contend against men in motor sports, Silberman is about to take a big kick forward for female athletes, even if the odds are clearly stacked against her.
The long-term answer is schooling, where the cards are subtly stacked against Romanies who want to educate their children (and the system does nothing to win over those who do not see its value).
His message rings as true as ever today, in this age of mass communications, when the decks are too often stacked against ordinary Americans.
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