Sentence examples for government fiddling from inspiring English sources

Home Office ministers argue that the international definition of an immigrant covers anyone who goes to a country for more than 12 months and that removing them from the net migration statistics would look like the government "fiddling the figures" to meet their 'below 100,000' target.

What I see is a government constantly fiddling with the system.

It's time for the government stop fiddling as our forests burn, and tend to the public good.

Labour has accused the government of fiddling the figures on its flood protection spending, as Cameron's numbers include private money as well as coalition funding.

The continuing slide in the pound, the £66bn annual price tag for a hard Brexit, and then the temporary disappearance of Marmite from Tesco shelves all added to the sense that the May government is fiddling while British business burns.

His defection is telling: as her cabinet chief in 2008-09, he was happy to defend her populist and protectionist economic policy, her government's fiddling of inflation statistics and its assault on the farmers.But over the past two years the government has begun to fail on the two issues that matter most to Argentines, the economy and crime.

But in many countries, ordinary folk as well as investment analysts suspect that governments are fiddling the figures for political reasons, and that the true inflation rate is much higher than officially reported.

I will hold the United States Government accountable for fiddling while Rome burns all around them with our future generations.

Seeming to fly in the face of U.S. calls for governments to stop fiddling exchange rates, Japanese authorities were detected dumping the yen in the foreign exchange market to drag it down from a 3-1/2-month high.

He did not appear but his prepared remarks accused government scientific agencies of fiddling with climate data.

Trying to hide the profligacy by fiddling the government accounts (one or two critics have muttered "Enron") will fool no one.Who is right?