Sentence examples for rigged of from inspiring English sources

The wheel was rigged, of course.

Vic motors past tents sagging under layers of tarp and other jerry-rigged, middle-of-the-night weatherproofing.

They told of rigged smokestack tests, of polluted wastewater dumped under cover of night, of regulators stalled at the front gate while flagrant safety violations were hidden.

John McDonnell has accused Labour's general secretary, Iain McNicol, of directing a "rigged purge" of party members, aimed at weeding out Corbyn voters.

It emerged on Friday that VW had rigged reports of diesel emissions for around 500,000 cars.

If only life was like a travelator, with its rigged ratio of energy to speed.

And the aces just kept coming, like the rigged reel of a fruit machine.

Rising literati like Rick Moody and Jonathan Franzen efficiently assume the spots left unoccupied by John Updike and Norman Mailer, like a rigged game of musical chairs.

Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus and Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan are certified tyrants; five years after Ukraine's Orange Revolution overturned the rigged election of Viktor Yanukovich, Ukrainians elected him anyway.

Mr Hamad acknowledged Mr Karume as Zanzibar's legitimate president, something the CUF had hitherto resisted in protest against the rigged election of 2005.

That hope turned to anger, and that anger into protest, after the improbable, almost certainly rigged, victory of the incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.