Sentence examples for rigging the contest from inspiring English sources

Yet he shows a surprisingly casual attitude toward logic and evidence, which is likely to cause the antimarket side to see him as rigging the contest.

Mr Miliband called for sweeping changes after Unite, the biggest union, was accused of rigging the contest to choose Labour's parliamentary candidate in Falkirk, Scotland.

In August, Sanders and Martin O'Malley, the former Maryland governor, who had announced in late May, suggested that the Democratic National Committee was, to use one of Sanders's favorite words, "rigging" the contest by limiting the number of debates to six (with four to be held before the early primaries), and in that way helping the better-known Clinton lock in her front-runner status.

Trump has since explicitly said that the Commission on Presidential Debates is rigging the contests against him on Clinton's behalf.

You have a neurotic hero who cannot get over the fact that he was by all standards the successor to Achilles and deserves Achilles's armor, and yet he was outsmarted by this wily, lesser Odysseus, who rigged the contest and got the armor.

At fifteen, Penelope married Odysseus, who had rigged the contest that decided which suitor would marry her.

Mr. Bush and Mr. Pataki, who had both insisted for weeks that the primary rules were not burdensome and exclusionary, reversed themselves after Mr. McCain's landslide victory in New Hampshire increasingly exposed them to criticism that they were rigging the New York contest to halt Mr. McCain's advance.

Trade unions have been accused by the government of wielding too much power after Unite was accused of rigging the outcome of a Labour selection contest in Falkirk.

More likely, though, Jerry Jones would rig the contest so he could fulfill his lifelong dream of coaching an All-Star team.

According to an internal Labour report, Unite members were being signed up to the local party without their knowledge in a bid to rig the contest.

He has been spurred into action by a row over an alleged attempt by Unite to rig the contest to replace Eric Joyce as the party's election candidate in Falkirk.