stacked

Those who do stand up to him have the deck stacked against them in this corporate environment.

Last June, on a sweaty summer evening, in our 550-square-foot Brooklyn apartment filled to the brim with towers of stacked moving boxes, my partner and I took a final appraisal of what our cross-country move to New York City had officially cost us.

It signalled that the party was now completely stacked with loyalists of President Xi Jinping.

On election day, fraud rumours also came from President-elect Trump himself, who has repeatedly argued from the outset of his political career that the voting system is unfairly stacked against him.

In his first term, Trump stacked the Department of Health and Human Services, the FDA’s parent agency, with anti-abortion zealots.