Any killer going before the Parole Board for the first time faces a deck stacked heavily against him.

Seven crudely constructed wooden decks with low ceilings and bunks stacked four high now filled the cargo holds.

"You've got the deck stacked all the way," I told him.

Locke was gratified to see his decks of cards stacked haphazardly at various points on and near Requin's desk.

Up to this point Hawk's signals have kept me out of trouble and I has proved the better player, but now I needs extra luck, a deck stacked for me and not for the captain.

He imagines that there is a deck of cards stacked neatly together and that one pulls off the top card so that it overhangs from the deck.

Mr. Lunbery said he thought that the state, in its environmental assessment of the corridor, had "stacked the deck" toward a highway-widening option by excluding any plan that costs more than $4 billion.

Each RH-53 had room for twenty-one men on stretchers stacked three high on the cargo deck.

There is going to be one hell of a fight one of these days over who owns the Moon; I want the deck stacked so that we win no matter how the cards are dealt.

We don't need the deck stacked so obnoxiously.