But since taking office, she has found the system stacked against her once again.

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The gendarmes, officially banned from holding demonstrations, say government policies have stacked the justice system against them.

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It is a system stacked against innovation.

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He wants to see doctors rewarded according to results, rather than procedures, because he argues that the current system is stacked against preventive medicine.

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Residents are victimized not only by the criminal gangs who often control the favelas, but by police who have earned a reputation as trigger-happy enforcers of a legal system that is stacked against the poor.

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Democrats moaned that it was stacked with people keen to privatise the pensions system.

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And many are fed up with a system in which the deck seems stacked against middle-class Americans in favor of the wealthiest few.

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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.

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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).

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The deck is stacked against women in so many ways, that it takes a great support system and tremendous will to break free and truly express oneself.

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