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- verb Present participle of
jury-rig .
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Examples
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He announces unspecified penalties, but promises they'll be less severe "if we find that not a lot of homeowners were injured" - which is exactly the "finding" he's been jury-rigging the numbers in order to achieve.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Why We Regulate - and Why John Walsh Needs to Resign RJ 2011
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He announces unspecified penalties, but promises they'll be less severe "if we find that not a lot of homeowners were injured" - which is exactly the "finding" he's been jury-rigging the numbers in order to achieve.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Why We Regulate - and Why John Walsh Needs to Resign RJ 2011
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The demographics read only D +3 registration, but the district went for Obama by 14%, so who knows what jury-rigging was involved in the gerrymandering after the 2000 Census?
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I think the programs created by the New Deal and the monetary jury-rigging that went on in our society exacerbated the Great Depression and pushed us farther down.
The Perry Doctrine 2010
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The ones who want to throw together a quick, really good pizza that doesn't require jury-rigging the oven?
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He supports tax cuts by saying Americans "want to be wealthy people" though he fails to see that that dream has been held back for decades by Republicans who insist on jury-rigging the system to protect the elite, effectively blocking economic mobility.
McCain: I have no idea about economics, but I'll be great 2008
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He supports tax cuts by saying Americans "want to be wealthy people" though he fails to see that that dream has been held back for decades by Republicans who insist on jury-rigging the system to protect the elite, effectively blocking economic mobility.
McCain: I have no idea about economics, but I'll be great 2008
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We also got the “chandelier” (6 weatherproof lamps) that hangs from the peak of the gazebo (with a little careful jury-rigging).
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With this added jury-rigging, people I meet now tend to laugh at the camera rather than admire it.
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Ah, but the conventional Darwinian view tends to tilt toward the notion that opportunity creates the selection pressure for jury-rigging the tools into existence.
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