Sentence examples for tried to fiddle from inspiring English sources

He and his colleagues first tried to fiddle with the flu genome directly, introducing bespoke changes to it in an effort to create an airborne strain.

The role of First Lady has long seemed old-fashioned, even moribund, and those who tried to fiddle with it did so at their peril.

Tucker's remarks blew apart a campaign by Osborne to prove that Balls was one of a series of senior Labour figures who tried to "fiddle Libor".

But this defence was undermined when the Conservative party released a briefing note after Diamond's evidence last Wednesday saying that Balls was one of a series of senior Labour figures who had tried to "fiddle" the Libor rate.

The Financial Conduct Authority is in the early stages of studying whether a Lloyds trader tried to fiddle the price of UK government bonds to arbitrage the market – pushing prices the prices of gilts down when buying and driving them up selling to investors.

Details of both studies are still under wraps but a paper Dr Fouchier presented in September at a virology conference in Malta outlined his team's approach.According to reports from the meeting, his team first tried to fiddle with the flu genome directly, introducing bespoke changes to it in an effort to create an airborne strain.

I had the impression he was trying to fiddle with it, I don't know.

Some may respond by trying to fiddle the immigration system, but most deal with the matter by exporting jobs.

Fearing the ruling party would try to fiddle the results, Buhari supporters took to the streets in some northern cities.

"It was a liberating experience, not endlessly trying to fiddle with the music, rerecording hundreds of times," Cherry said.

Politicians and police chiefs could do little except bluster and try to fiddle the statistics.Mr DiIulio later recanted and it is clear that the pessimists were wrong.