Sentence examples for try to fiddle from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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".

Hang on a minute, though: that might not work because, according to the Serious Fraud Office, there was more than one bloke trying to fiddle with the benchmark interest rate.

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.

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".

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.