Rigging Quotes

What Mr. Feld wants is the right facility configured to accommodate a circus. It has to include rigging, elephant doors, a floor piped and plumbed for ice shows, and an arena capable of seating 5,000 to 6,000 people for premieres and shows. - Joan Galvin

We've done from the waterline down. Now we're doing from the waterline up. The rigging had been almost completely redone when we did the Disney film ['Pirates of the Caribbean II']. - Robert Hansen

We were out there in the Southern Ocean, feeling very insignificant in a big part of the planet... At any minute, another storm would sweep in. We hatched a plan: Spike and I would climb up and jury-rig the fitting. As we started the climb, I told the crew that they must helm the yacht very carefully on the opposite tack, as the rigging was only holding up one side of the mast. If the helmsman made a mistake while we were up on the mast, we'd crash down over the side with the entire rig on top of us. - Simon Walker

We need to guard against the situation where big companies, local or international, can corner the market, which can in turn lead to price-fixing and bid-rigging. There is concern within the work force and government that the fruits of economic recovery are not filtering down to unskilled workers. - Donald Tsang

We are expecting nothing better from the government and its allies in the second round in terms of rigging, in terms of high-handedness and in terms of the involvement of government machinery in the election process. - Raza Rabbani

We are at a defining moment. The court is going to decide when political parties go too far in rigging electoral districts for their own advantage. - Nathaniel Persily

This program is the real Pirates of the Caribbean . . . daring, adventurous and authentic down to the knots and rigging. - David Moore

They talk about bid-rigging, but there were no bids going out. It's like doing a narcotics investigation where there were no narcotics. - Christopher Cassar

They have stated that what they call 'resistance' has protected the ballot boxes in their areas. This is a confession that rigging has happened. - Jawad Al-Maliki

These indictments are part of a continuing effort to hold individuals accountable for bid rigging and other illegal activities that defrauded insurance clients. - Eliot Spitzer