Sentence examples for attempt to fiddle from inspiring English sources

So is the government's childish attempt to fiddle the country's economic statistics.

A UKIP councillor in Thanet was filmed volunteering that she had "a problem" with "Negroid features"; a UKIP MEP and parliamentary candidate, Janice Atkinson, was dismissed over an alleged attempt to fiddle a restaurant receipt for her expenses.

The Daily Mail critic said of the work, featuring an attempt to fiddle a municipal lottery, that "through the haze of words I glimpse a high promise", and the following year the Royal Court commissioned Live Like Pigs, about a gypsy family being forced into council accommodation.

To more important matters, though, such as North Korea's attempt to fiddle Fifa rules by listing an extra striker as a goalkeeper – a ruse on which they have been rumbled, meaning Kim Myong‑won will now have to play as a keeper or not at all.

And they add that legislation that attempts to fiddle with how a private industry, no matter how vast and powerful, sets its prices poses dense legal problems.

He intervened in a way that was not only wholly inappropriate for a vice president, but he did so in a way that attempted to fiddle with U.S. law, by introducing a legal ruse designed to give Elian U.S. residency status -- status that would never be granted in such a way in any other case.

But few would support letting attempts to fiddle elections just go ahead and happen anyway.

Yet the modern school calendar has never been viewed as a perfect solution, and the question routinely arises as to whether summer vacation is an outdated and ineffective concept; thus, we continue our attempts to fiddle with school schedules.

In 2002, a prominent New Yorker's blood was boiling over an attempt in the City Council to fiddle with the city's term limits law.

Only at the very end of the period might a deliberate change have been made, as the holes get suddenly longer.Intriguingly, intentional attempts in the 19th century to fiddle further with the f-holes' designs actually served to make things worse, and did not endure.

Mr Cameron said: "Look at what his idea of reform is – trying to fiddle the electoral system and introduce the alternative vote in a cynical attempt to save his own skin".