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Sentence Examples A platform is rigged toward the back of the stage rising over the winds and brass sections for the vocalists. The night was still, with no breeze at all, yet the fully rigged ship continued to hold her course for land. In fact it was rigged with what looked suspiciously like 10 year old and totally knackered Oxford gear! So much so that the market, when not rigged by the banks or the government, would make the spread practically zero. Other agents say their own negotiating strategies were a pragmatic response to a market they perceive as rigged. From experience, the rest of us are more likely to conclude that markets are very likely to be rigged or gamed, and prone to collapse. Experts argue that share prices were effectively artificially rigged, which is why there has been no recovery. In a world such as this, it would be all so evident, the extent to which markets have been surreptitiously rigged already. This means that renewable energy producers are being asked to compete in a rigged market. Earlier this month he was re-elected after a poll that was widely condemned as rigged. She is cutter rigged with a large foretriangle to allow plenty of room for both headsails. King refers to his associate John Crudele's writing on the subject of how the stock market was to be rigged. In early June, the Feds indicted him for allegedly designing the schemes that rigged the California power market. The government alleges that they got together and rigged commodity markets of their own volition. Clipper ships often carried additional square sails on either side of the main square sails, and staysails were frequently rigged to the stays. Ray Kish started sailing after he hammered a couple of cross members into his rowboat and jury rigged a sail. It is also fitted with two small masts rigged with spritsails, a sailing rig that is still used by Thames sailing barges today. If the bids were rigged, then other countries could get redress in a Caribbean court. Approval even came over the radio net to shoot dogs to prevent them from being rigged with explosives. They rigged two mooring legs on the ship's fantail, consisting of anchors, chain and heavy cable attached to two buoys. Show More Sentences Due to the fact that the main shaft was steeply sloping rather than vertical, the ropes were also rigged at an angle. I agree, though, that the test is fairly obviously rigged to move testees in a left-libertarian direction scorewise. According to the police, Rich had rigged a tiny lens in his shoe laces to a video camera via a wire leading up his trouser leg. A speaker system has been rigged up to relay the service to crowds outside. The difference between a barque and a ship is the way the aftmost mast is rigged. All of our sails are rigged and ready to go with adjustable harness lines, booms and uphauls attached. In all, 176 passengers were escorted off the Mississippi Belle II without incident over a gangway rigged up from the shore, officials said. He attempted to board the vessel by jumping from the quayside as a gangway was not rigged, but fell into the water. North Shaft can be descended using SRT, but it needs to be rigged from natural belays. Needham has rigged a plywood makeshift helipad over the logs stacked 20m high from the very bowels of the ship to the topside decks. They also have on display the actual foretopsail that was rigged on the Victory during the battle. He quickly arranged to borrow a balloon from Holloman Air Force Base and rigged a boatswain's chair under it. It had been a joke on a passing knight to stake a high bet and then use rigged dice to take everything he had put up. A traverse then leads to a ledge from which a short narrow descent may be rigged to the streamway below. We would probably not today know of police coercion, brutality, forced confessions and rigged trials. The machine could well be rigged for a miscount, only with voter choices printed accurately. It is of course possible that something could be rigged without the network and without triangulation. Gaius embraced his brother warmly as the men stood on the dock where two biremes, rigged and prepared to sail, were moored. Already accusations are flying that the bid is rigged and fixed and they already know who is going to win. From gold-laden galleons to a fully rigged tea-clipper, there are wrecks galore in the clear waters around Salcombe. Show More Sentences Originally planned as an air ambulance, the Huey was later rigged as a gun ship and a troop carrier. The walls were smooth and flawless in their golden perfection, and so it was impossible to tell if they were rigged in any way. The six berth trawler was built in 1988 and is steel hulled, shelter decked, is 24 metres in length and is rigged for trawling. Such ships were robustly built with stout planking secured to massive framing timbers, with a single mast possibly rigged with a square sail. After a short wait in the LZ for the bridge sections and boats to be rigged, we reviewed the preflight weight and power calculations. The boat had been recently commissioned and placed under Captain Charles Inglis to be rigged. The Discovery benefits from its romantic association with Captain Robert Falcon Scott and is fully rigged unlike its ugly sister. The trainee programme offers those aged 16 to 25 the opportunity to sail to France on a traditionally rigged sailing ship. She is rigged for trawling and is ready to join the local fleet working for prawns under the command of skipper Eric Johnston. During the rigged tournament, Claudius and Laertes give Hamlet a blunted sword while Laertes' weapon is sharpened and poisoned. The equipment, about the size of a satellite dish, is rigged to the side of the ship. The entire edge and frame of the door was rigged with high-explosive plastique so powerful it would rip the frame open like a can-opener. Naturally, the box the Feds supplied was rigged with every surveillance gizmo known to man. The pitch was rigged in no time and we were soon at the bottom and making our way to Bridge Hall. Apparently, the machine had been incorrectly rigged and Bob had his hands full in getting the Heinkel back on the ground. He looked up at the starry sky, at the one sail they had rigged, and then at the ship's deck. In 1984, I participated in a war game featuring a Cessna rigged with a tiny nuke and flown by a suicide pilot. Encased for months in plaster body casts, Kahlo began to paint lying in bed with a special easel rigged up by her mother. Liberty's dad had been so tired of yelling all through the house for his children, that he rigged up a telephone system to each room. There is no play tomorrow because the arena is being rigged up for television coverage which starts on Saturday. Show More Sentences Cameras were only positioned at the entrance hall, and wherever there was an emergency exit, which are rigged with alarms. When they were tied he set several sticks of dynamite under their chairs and rigged fuse leading to outside. In fact, I heard him only after the dispute began over the private kitchen he had rigged up for himself. Nasa had provided forceps and astronauts had rigged up a makeshift hacksaw for Robinson to use if the gap-fillers proved difficult to remove. Many fans that can't afford a generator have rigged up their televisions to car batteries to beat the blackouts. Using more pipe fittings, we rigged up a weather vane, and then we were ready to install the dish roof. The protesters rigged up a sound system outside the chief executive's home and blasted out aircraft noise for 15 minutes. The police have rigged up lights to keep watch, ordered taxi drivers not to pick him up, seized his home computer and cut off his telephone. They rigged up a rope ladder and hung it from the fantail and the liberty boat ran in under it. The poverty-stricken young Joe rigged up a make-do punchbag in his rickety garden shed. The distress signal was rigged to a hyperspace relay, so they know the colony is, or rather was, under attack. They fear a hijacked oil tanker could be rigged with explosives or a radioactive dirty bomb could be smuggled ashore in a shipping container. It has two masts, square rigged on both with a spanker sail on the aftermost mast. Do the seven-day trip rigged out in ponchos and fleece chaps just like local cowboys. Sure it's fun to get rigged up in some flapping strides and dance along to some dire disco every once in a while. The man, upon seeing a knight rigged out in full armor sticking a lance in his face, fears for his life. America has a long history of vote tampering and rigged elections in many local jurisdictions. These individuals are thought of as having rigged the system to gain control of the country's petroleum wealth. In the engine chamber of diesels, the pistons are rigged to create a high amount of pressure. Thousands of protesters rallied today, north of Baghdad, in the Sunni city of Samarra, charging the vote was rigged and demanding new elections. Show More Sentences In villages where the population density is relatively low, he hopes observers would also manage to check whether voters' lists are rigged. Once you have the positional advantage you have rigged the race so you can't lose. Our gantlines, which are permanently rigged, are three strand Roblon and sized to be sufficiently strong for the purpose of sending people and gear aloft. Someone had rigged a booby trap that blew up the car when the engine was started. Republicans dominate the Ohio legislature thanks to a heavily gerrymandered crazy quilt of rigged districts, and to a moribund Ohio Democratic party. Working with a sextant for two days, she figured out her bearings and rigged a sail to position herself in currents she hoped would take her to Hawaii. Some of the blacktrackers in the South Australian Police Force are rigged in smart uniforms a la white troopers, whereat the said troopers are kicking. He then rigged anchors, fixed a rope and rappelled to the canyon floor. The rigged system of redistricting is quietly reaching new lows of collusion and cronyism in states across the country. A plastic jug rigged as an incendiary device is later found on the roof. Although live bait is preferred, dead ribbonfish, also called silver eels, will make any mackerel lick his lips, but they're rigged dead for a reason. Other intricately rigged ships ride steadily in the inner harbour. A calm surface favors the finesse of a dogwalker, and a riffled surface suggests the increased commotion of a chugger or a slush-type plug rigged with propellers. By the beginning of December Challenger was newly rigged, freshly caulked and painted, and fitted with a new deck house for the comfort of the Scientifics. They claim that the poll was rigged, distorted, or a flat out lie. At first when sails triumphed over oars, a large square sail was rigged on the mainmast while two smaller sails fore and aft gave the ship maneuverability. Using powerful floodlights to attract the delicacy known to the Japanese as ika, the boats employ sails which are rigged astern to reduce the ship's roll in the ocean swells. He told Matthews of his desire to have all available sail rigged and set. I want that schooner mast patched and sail rigged as soon as possible. The flight controls had been carefully rigged to fractions of a degree while the wing slats were removed and then refitted to ensure a perfectly smooth fit. Show More Sentences He walked to a computer terminal, the display of which was rigged up to project its image onto a large white screen at the front of the briefing room. Various cars he'd wrecked littered the long drive and when I eventually found him he was riding a donkey over whose head he'd rigged up some wing mirrors. Now and again the speeches would be interrupted for volleys of gunfire over the graves and choruses of martial-sounding music from loudspeakers rigged up around the cemetery. The next day a still was rigged, using wood from the wings as fuel. Surely he'd seen the commode in the corner of the dining room, because that thing was not completely hidden by the screen they had rigged up, no matter what Dottie said. But I did laugh very merrily when the reception manager made his way around the courtyard diners, rigged up in full Father Christmas gear and gumboots five sizes too big. The MDC, along with Britain, the European Union and the US, has refused to accept the results, saying voting was rigged and influenced by violence and intimidation. But is this crisis due to rigged markets for medical insurance as well? Not the global free market, but a rigged version, which favours the already rich and powerful, and is policed by their institutions, on their terms. That means the U.S. can simply ignore Chinese data on costs on the assumption they are distorted by subsidized loans, rigged markets, and the controlled yuan. Classic market rules, supply and demand considerations don't work in textbook fashion in a rigged market that is routinely manipulated by global central banks. At no point, until two Senators called their bluff on Monday, did the bright sparks at The Economist magazine or DARPA acknowledge that such a market could be rigged. I had never dived on a real pirate ship, and I imagined fully rigged masts, broad wooden beams, and a blonde-haired damsel gracing the bow of an eerie ghost ship. The pilot ladder is required to be rigged on the lee side of the vessel as close as possible to midships, 2 meters above the water, with manropes. Wall text explains that Joo rigged a camera inside an embalmed caribou carcass, left it in the woods baited with fresh meat and attempted to restart nature's feeding cycles. Her bowsprit carries two foresails, and her large mainsail is gaff rigged, with an upside-down triangle of topsail to fill the gap at the masthead. For the super-rich, of course, ensuring multi-generational wealth is just another rigged game. The father and child left, the young Afghan sporting a nicely rigged splint made of tongue depressors and bandages on one hand and a coloring book in the other. For real thrills, keep one rod rigged with a large topwater plug. The government hadn't supplied the surveyors with tents, so they rigged bivouacs to sleep in, toasted food over the fire and munched on hard square ship's biscuits. Show More Sentences This exposure in part accounts for the nautical know-how of his early sculptures, which were sometimes built like boats or internally rigged with cables and turnbuckles. The stock markets are rigged, the banks operate in a way that is non-commercial, and the yuan is still strictly non-convertible. The boatswain's chair was rigged and the work of rescue was begun. They rigged a towing bridle and re-established the tow with the tug. They hate attack ads and want change, but believe the American political system is rigged. For the Baffin trip, McLean sewed three sizes of packable kites rigged with reins and steering bars and borrowed Inuit designs to fashion flexible-wood gear sledges. The rigged system of redistricting makes her already uphill climb that much steeper. In 1965, amid political tensions, regional elections were rigged by the ruling party in Western Nigeria. I heard about someone having to shoot a boy, out of fear he was rigged with a bomb trigger. Nash was pleased to see that Fric had padded and rigged the horse's harnesses for silence, as well as shoeing their hoofs with leather covers to muffle their trot. Though Mr. Boudin has rigged his dorm room at Yale University to override the block on collect calls, neither parent was able to connect with him today. Today, there are problems because when those vying for offices fail to win the polls, then the elections have been rigged and the issue should be settled physically. The heaviest flounder, gafftop catfish and sheepshead each is worth a Scout 175 Sportfish center console rigged with a 90 Mercury and a McClain trailer. But the ways of a globalized ecology, rigged as it is upon a patchwork of political boundaries, works often delusively, rarely inscribing itself in a single language. In addition to seven cars rigged with explosives, the guardsmen found 30 rocket-propelled grenades, high-powered rifles, mortars and remote control detonators. Instead the City Fire Brigade rigged a breeches buoy to the ship, but additional manpower was needed to man the lines. But New Yorkers have an important chance to reform their rigged system. He had many computers in his house, with a bank of six monitors rigged up to ease writing. A PEEPING Tom who rigged a hidden camera to record women in a fish factory toilet was caught when his own spycam filmed him setting it up. It was lateen rigged on two masts and had between eight and twelve oars on each side. Show More Sentences Tom MacNaughton of MacNaughton Group also has several popular junk rigged designs. It was painterless painting, done by a remote-controlled model car rigged with a can of quick-drying paint. A CRAFTY scam artist cheated Blackpool tourists out of their holiday money by running a rigged hoopla stall on the Golden Mile. It's a recumbent bathtub rigged up so I can pedal it lying back with my shower cap on. This sick status quo is a result of the rigged system of redistricting. As the voyage was intended to be completed under power, the tug was rigged as steam propelled with a sail auxiliary. Shipbuilding peaked in the 1850s, marked in 1851 by the full rigged ship Lord Clarendon, the largest wooden ship ever built in Cape Breton. The presidential elections of 1988 were heavily rigged, and incompetently at that. Investigators suspect 28 Lega Pro and Serie D matches from the 2014-15 season were rigged. Once a party dominates a rigged district, the party force-feeds its corralled voters a preselected party hack. As one gets into three or more masts the number of combinations rises and one gets barques, barquentines, and full rigged ships. The kids we met sporting extra-tight pants had either rigged them up themselves or were wearing something out of the Junior Miss department. Similarly, in The Dresser, 2008, a nineteenth-century Welsh dresser is filled with simple vases and other vessels, all rigged with magnets. There was a vicious rumour that the final was rigged, as the defense seemed useless. My present habitation was a bivouac, rigged up out of a rick-cloth and some posts, which I shared with eleven other troopers. The main boom then can be rigged as a whisker pole too, to stabilize one of the head sails. A preventer can be rigged to reduce danger and damage from accidental jibes. The SICCUP tents had to be rigged to be lightproof at night. According to Martin Kriele, the results of the election were rigged. We were ready to embark upon our journey now the vessel was rigged. Show More Sentences The Liechtenstein mountains were partially redesigned to look like locations from the game, and a quarry was rigged with several pyrotechnic explosions. Conspiracy theorists are often thought of as folks who see sinister plans at every turn, who think things are rigged or designed in a way that others just don't realize. I rigged a 3-inch split-tail worm Texas-style without the weight. Police who searched Magee's car found a bolt-action rifle, several rounds of ammunition, small bottles of propane and rigged containers of a petroleum-based propellent. Once declawed, mud crabs can be rigged with a jighead or a hook. Examples from Classical Literature Galusha, of course, would have rigged me up like the Queen of Sheba, if he had had his way. For their crane had been left in a brambled hole, and they very soon rigged it out again. Then the breeches buoy was rigged, and in a little while a woman was hauled in from the wreck. At that age he had rigged up a square sail for a rowboat and had known many happy hours on the water. They rigged an anomalous, pre-Adamite fowl's foot with a corrugated sole, on each side of the engine. I rigged up a sail out of the oar and the canvas spray shield, but there wa'n't wind enough to give us steerageway. She is barkentine rigged, a hundred and twenty feet long, with a speed of nine knots. But Lucy, being a man of energy, soon rigged a jury-mast out of its wreck, and set to work to cut-in his whales. He knows that you are chained close to the explosive and that it is rigged with a detonator, connected with the power line. The men will bring up all their mess tables, they can be rigged and unshipped in no time. A sail was rigged on the foremast, and a sea anchor hastily constructed as soon as it was discovered that the helm was useless. He has rigged a cable with a switch box so you can operate the controls from the front seat. She was very heavily rigged, with her main mast raking over the tafferel, and full of men. The sea anchor which Russ had rigged provided the necessary drag and steerage way, and the boat's head was kept to the waves. It was rigged with wire rope, and the martingale was sawn through with the greatest difficulty. She is barquentine rigged, and has triple-expansion engines giving her a speed under steam of nine to ten knots. The foxhole had two entrances, both well-concealed, and he had rigged elaborate warning devices should the vicinity be approached. They'd rigged up a battering-ram and allowed they meant to smash in our front door. The old Wickiup was decorated till it looked like a buck rigged for a ghost dance. We now reeved our ropes and rigged our ship the best we could, every man working as if to save our lives in the utmost extremity. Show More Sentences We had no lathe to turn the shafting, and we finally rigged a contrivance in the cabin wall to thrust one end into. Tarangini is a three-masted barque, square rigged on the fore and main masts and fore-and-aft rigged on the mizzen mast. We even rigged up a basketball net made out of a wastepaper basket and manufactured balls out of rubber gloves and bits of paper. I don't approve of children being rigged out in fancy colors, but I'll see what your aunt Jane thinks. She was a screw-propeller, and rigged as a fore-topsail schooner. A Dutch vessel, galliot rigged, used in the river trade of Holland. The gramophone was rigged up in my cabin on a board hung from the ceiling. He seesawed on the mizzenmast of his craft as safe as a Steeple Jack rigged to the flagpole of a skyscraper. A litter was rigged for the now feverish Baynes, and the little cavalcade was soon slowly winding off along the river trail. She was well rigged, too, having a staysail and gafftopsail. I rigged the tiller, and the mate sat beside me in the stern sheets. When she was indeed knocked out after losing the vote, Murs was accused of letting slip that the show was rigged. I rigged up a contraption to hold off those stinking beasts, and I spent a happy day there with a spud. On my word, you're rigged out like a landholder of Ile Saint-Louis! The system was developed with her son Alan, who rigged up an old margarine tub and shower curtain ring. Evidently he rigged up a furnace and melted the metal into useable form. This was rigged to run from the spritsail-yard to an outrigger aft. On the bench, stout-hulled and bravely masted, was a bark to be rigged. A dressing station had been rigged up in the cellar underneath. So we rigged her with thin hides for sails and dried gut for rope. Show More Sentences Purists might say a ship can only be used to describe a large sailing vessel with a specific square rigged sail, as opposed to barkentine or schooner. At the corner of the gloomy passage a rigged jib boom with a dolphin-striker ending in an arrow-head stuck out of the night close to a cast iron lamp-post. Those on the hind feet he secured not only by tightening the draw strings but also rigged garters that fastened tightly around the legs above the hocks. Beneath the centre of the balloon, was a frame of light wood, about nine feet long, and rigged on to the balloon itself with a network in the customary manner. Stores of wood were brought for the night, shelters were rigged up for the officers, caldrons were being boiled, and muskets and accouterments put in order. A rigged flying fish, rigged ballyhoo or a large trolling lure. So I cut down some trees and rigged a spar on the starboard and another on the port side, and fooled away upward of three hours trying to spar her off. Find more words! 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