Sentence examples for rigged world from inspiring English sources

Haile Gerima's "Bush Mama" (1975-79) — part fever dream, part call to arms — follows a Watts woman (Barbara O. Jones) dealing with the welfare office, her Vietnam vet husband and the rigged world at large.

Where they come from, on the other side of the rigged world, there are no shortcuts.

Regardless of class, regardless of whether they've succeeded at the bankrupt doctrine of "twice as good" (the necessary effort/skill level needed to succeed in a white man's rigged world, so the saying goes)—in Coates's vision, justice simply isn't in their hands.

They described two decades of corruption in which officials rigged World Cup bids and steered marketing and broadcast contracts in exchange for bribes — paid out through convoluted financial deals and briefcases full of cash.

There's no question who was in Miliband's frame: the bankers and vested interests of the corporate world, rigged markets, rip-off energy conglomerates, "cosy cartels" that control executive pay, and the companies so powerful "they can get away with anything".

There was no doubt who was in the frame: the bankers and vested interests of the corporate world, rigged markets, big energy conglomerates, companies "powerful enough they can get away with anything" and cosy cartels that set top pay (while he promised to put a worker on every company pay committee).

When he nominated Ferrante, he said he did it to restore the honour of the Strega, an award that he says has "lost its charm" and come to resemble a game that is "brazenly rigged" in a publishing world that lacks authentic competition, just as much of Italy does.

Alas, such is life in the world of rigged games, tilted tables and uneven playing fields.

Instead of reinventing ourselves during the 2000s, America manufactured financial pink slime branded with AAA-ratings to sell to the rest of the world and rigged our economy with houses on stilts barely above water during the best of times.

Indian refiners point out that they now have the worst of both worlds: a rigged domestic market open to imports.

Experts have said Putin's reelection was rigged, which has led other world leaders to hesitate before congratulating him.