Sentence examples for fixing around from inspiring English sources

If something needed fixing around the house, I'd look at it, not have a clue what to do, and turn it over to my wife.

These feed into low mortgage rates, which are currently at historic lows (30-yr fixed around 4%).

But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy".

The head of Britain's MI6 told Blair in 2002 that "the intelligence and facts are being fixed around the policy".

Her world is two huge wheels, spun to imitate gravity, fixed around a long central axle aimed at the star Tau Ceti.

Sir Richard has admitted (in 2002) that, in the US, "intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy", but the 2004 Butler Review did not pursue this.

Leaked minutes of a meeting on Iraq chaired by Tony Blair in Downing Street on July 23 2002 reveal that Sir Richard, reporting on his talks in Washington, warned that "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy".

The other is the statement that the chief of Britain's secret intelligence service had returned from a visit to Washington where he found that "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy".

A8 Bush and Blair Defend Policy President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain defended themselves against a British government memorandum that reported that American intelligence was being "fixed" around the policy of removing Saddam Hussein from Iraq.

The memo said Sir Richard Dearlove, the head of British intelligence, had said in the meeting that Mr. Bush had decided on war, "but the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy".

They were like cops framing a suspect they feel sure is guilty; "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy," as the famous Downing Street memo put it.