Remember, the deck was stacked against you.

Tom stacked the firewood behind the house.

Tom stacked the firewood inside the woodshed.

Tom stacked the firewood inside the woodshed.

He must have stacked them up against the wall.

He must have stacked them up against the wall.

Despite all this progress, however, the odds remain stacked against the country.

No matter how you look at it, the odds are stacked against us.

My entire past life is stacked in boxes, humble boxes that don t manifest their grand contents.

This time around, however, the odds appear once again stacked against the smooth running of the polls.

Instead of trying to build non partisan and competent regulatory institutions, all positions were stacked with political followers.

All candidates must first obtain majority backing from a nominating committee likely to be stacked with Beijing loyalists.

Try to imagine 143,000 Eiffel Towers stacked one on top of another, or a pile of 10 trillion bananas.

Before leaving, he had stacked all his cultures of staphylococci on a bench in a corner of his laboratory.

We had to arrange the spaces so that they stacked on top of each other without needing to hunch down.

But the Internet also presents women with new weapons against their attackers that can challenge a legal system stacked against them.

The trays sit on shelves stacked 12 feet (3.7 meters) high and illuminated, like tanning beds, by purple and white lights.

In a room to the side, the small coffins were stacked one on top of the other, waiting to be claimed.

In a room to the side, the small coffins were stacked one on top of the other, waiting to be claimed.

Since then, Convoca has sought to answer these questions and to find out what was in those stacked boxes in a corner of OEFA's offices.

I retain not only these images forever in my head, but also the sights and smells of thousands of decayed corpses stacked in two mine tunnels near Tuzla.

The detained sleep on long benches made of disjointed bits of wood, stacked one on top of the other, and so much shorter than a man's height that it's impossible to stretch out.

Now in its third year, the civil war pits the primarily Sunni Muslim rebels against Assad's government and its security forces, which are stacked with members of his Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

To the left is a stairwell, a wall of which is stacked with records by Adele, Jeff Buckley, Amy Winehouse and Fleetwood Mac a mix of contemporary and classics, the essential records for any average collection.

And with the judging panel still looking at him with bewilderment, shrugging their shoulders, the impertinent Maas stacked his chosen props by order of size to form a pyramid and rounded off his presentation now suitably backed up with action with the words Dear Municipality!

It was possible to predict the number of bases stacked within a single turn of the DNA helix (10 per turn a full turn of the helix is 27 angströms in the compact A form, 34 angströms 3.4 nm in the wetter B form).

Early in the morning he rode to where the first rye was being sown, then to see the oats carted and stacked, and returning home when his wife and sister in law were getting up he drank coffee with them, and then walked to the farm where the new threshing machine was to be started to thresh the seed corn.

But this year the peasants had agreed to get the harvest in and take one third of all the hay in payment. Now the Elder had come to inform Levin that the hay was all made and that for fear of rain he had asked the steward to come, and in his presence had apportioned the hay and had already stacked eleven stacks of the landlord's share.