And even this picture has the suspicious taint of being rigged about it something from a Barnum Bailey circus.

They were horrified when they discovered they'd really been left out all the time because the shows were rigged.

Either you've rigged it by design, or you've got enough data so there's no need to randomize people anymore.

And this is what we used to give to the company Image Metrics to create a rigged, digital version of Emily.

And it was rigged, and it became unraveled when this man, Charles van Doren, was outed after an unnatural winning streak, ending Berry's career.

And so this is a test that's very much rigged in favor of the car seat, OK? So, that kid in this crash fared very well.

Israel s political system, through its complex mechanisms of rigged party selection and absolute proportionality, condemns the country to weak coalition governments and escalating corruption. It must be reformed urgently.

Neoliberalism reigns. More and more, politics looks like a rigged system whereby members of the same political class compete for jobs, rather than for the victory of ideas, or on behalf of larger collective interests.

Another type of corruption involves siphoning enormous sums of money from large scale projects. In India, for example, the government lost as much as 30 40 billion of much needed revenue when coveted band spectrum was sold through a rigged auction.

In short, the report says, officials can do what they like, unbound by law or transparency. By using the emergency law, which has restricted freedom since 1981, together with censorship and rigged elections, Egypt s government treats its citizens like serfs.

Some big businesses in privileged positions would make a fortune from exploiting this rather rigged market. And politicians would have an opportunity to control the number and distribution of emission permits and the flow of billions of dollars in subsidies and sweeteners.

The country s broadcast media, especially its television stations, gave a disproportionate amount of air time to the ruling Communists during the election campaign. The Communists are alleged to have rigged the balloting by adding names to the voter rolls and reviving the dead for the day.

As recently as 2010, the regime held elections so blatantly rigged that the main opposition party refused to participate. But in 2011, shortly before assuming the presidency, Sein, a general who served as Prime Minister under the junta, began to take steps that impressed even the most skeptical observers.

Yanukovych was the man who sought to falsify the result of the presidential election of 2004, inciting the Orange Revolution. Back then, a peaceful and honest result was reached in the end because Ukraine s President Leonid Kuchma refused to heed Yanukovych s call to use violence to defend his rigged election.

Yanukovich was the man who sought to falsify the result of the presidential election of 2004, inciting the Orange Revolution. Back then, a peaceful and honest result was reached in the end because Ukraine s President Leonid Kuchma refused to heed Yanukovich s call to use violence to defend his rigged election.

Kenya is aflame after a presidential election on December 27 widely believed to have been rigged to secure the re election of Mwai Kibaki. Kibaki s opponents took to the streets, the government issued shoot to kill orders, and hundreds have died at the hands of the police as well as from gang rampages and inter ethnic violence.

In June, a consortium led by Pinchuk and Rinat Akhmetov, a Donetsk magnate, bought a stateâowned steelworks in an auction allegedly rigged to specifically exclude foreign bidders offering two or three times as much. The move was probably more than just another property grab it also suggests an effort to forge an interâclan alliance for the post Kuchma period.

Indeed, this did happen with the one property recovery that my government was able to secure, the giant Kryvorizhstal steel works that our former president s son in law gained through a rigged sale at a bargain price. On its re auction, Ukraine received more than five times the amount that had been paid through that insider deal.

Ukraine s break with Russia was perhaps the most wrenching, both for those in the Kremlin nostalgic for imperial control and for ordinary Russians who see Ukraine as the wellspring of Russian civilization. The Orange Revolution of 2004, which overturned a rigged presidential election, proved that Ukraine was no longer a Malorossiya (a small Russia), an inferior and subordinate Slavic brother.

Mousavi s campaign, and its aftermath, showed clearly that those who professed to see no difference between the candidates, except in style and presentation, were wrong even if the election was rigged, the voices of opposition to clerical authoritarianism were heard. The quiet dignity of the protests that followed did more for Iran s standing in the world than any amount of belligerent posturing by a populist president.

First, he does not dare appear to be soft on terror. Second, perhaps he needs to be able to try the Guantánamo detainees in a rigged setting, or even keep them from trial forever lawyers claim that torture, including sexual torture, was so endemic in the CIA and the military that Obama could be holding scores, if not hundreds, of prisoners whose bodies are crime scenes.

Finally, the US needs a financial system that serves all of society, rather than operating as if it were an end in itself. That means that the system s focus must shift from speculative and proprietary trading to lending and job creation, which implies reforms of financial sector regulation, and of anti trust and corporate governance laws, together with adequate enforcement to ensure that markets do not become rigged casinos.