Sentence examples for rigged contests from inspiring English sources

While the industry called them 'unscripted' there were staged, scripted, rigged contests in which controversies were crafted, conflicts inflicted, and the attractive and popular contestants came out on top.

Claims of rigged contests have surfaced before.

SILVIO BERLUSCONI says it was a rigged contest that his side won.

It makes for a strangely rigged contest between turbocharged prose and the rickshaw verse it ostensibly reveres.

Broadcasters were scandalized by the bribes to disk jockeys for playing certain songs and by rigged contest shows.

In 2012 a carefully selected committee of 1,200 members 0.017% of the population will choose his replacement.To most Hong Kongers it is a rigged contest.

Rock is about rebellion and personal liberation, except that it's validated by winning over an audience at a rigged contest and the (formerly uptight) parents and principal.

Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega has been re-elected by a landslide in an election described by the opposition as the most rigged contest in the four decades since the Sandinista leader first came to power.

After a rigged contest for prom king and queen, Cissy Spacek's Carrie White character is doused in pig's blood, pretty much bringing her telekinetic wrath on everyone in the room.

If there is something distinctly American about DeLillo's variety of failed transcendence, it might just be his insistence on playing out, like an endless film loop of samizdat footage, the rigged contest between hope and reason, salvation and annihilation.

The following year, in advance of the presidential election, ExxonMobil's petrodollars bankrolled the involvement of a U.S. lobbyist who helped legitimize a rigged contest in which Obiang claimed 97.8percentt of the vote from the same constituency that only months earlier had opted overwhelmingly for the opposition coalition.