Sentences with phrase «of a fiddle»

After a bit of fiddling with the way qualifying worked in the mid-2000s, in 2006 it seemed that F1 had settled on a format that everyone liked.

Unless you want to do an awful lot of fiddling around with file conversion, you're more or less tied to Amazon's own bookstore when it comes to broadening your personal library.

Somewhere around this point, your patience with Google Translate will break but if you stay with it — which will involve a lot of fiddling around returning to the site — you will get encouraged to mediate; to draw up an agreed parenting plan; and given access to a financial calculator.

Google Docs is completely free and offers a variety of resume templates, so you can focus on highlighting your skills instead of fiddling with formatting.

The most regal sign of them all, a lion's courageous, authoritative personality mirrors the grand, elegant leaves of a Fiddle leaf tree.

It can take minutes of fiddling with even the simplest track to work out what is hindering your construction.

NHS hospitals last night stood accused of fiddling figures to mask the numbers of patients dying needlessly - Daily Mail

It's a pretty nifty little feature, but is still not widely known about as not all TVs support it and it requires a bit of fiddling in Settings menus.

Despite this hiccup, most of the menus have some kind of logic, and you'll eventually get used to it after an hour or so of fiddling around.

This was also the first time I've worked with a DemocracyInAction account, which turned out to be a joy after years of fiddling with GetActive (sorry, friends at GA).

No amount of fiddling in the barebones settings menu could sort this.

Scientists, he wrote, would sooner be accused of fiddling while Rome burns than of crying wolf.

If you don't like the idea of fiddling with tabs or buttons to remove electrical plugs but still want something that is child - proof, choose the Balfer Electric Socket Protector Caps.

After hours of fiddling around and losing myself in meaningless stories on the Internet, all while suppressing the dragon (I'm good at multitasking), I finally got up to make lunch.

NHS hospitals last night stood accused of fiddling figures to mask the numbers of patients dying needlessly

At first the setup feels a little busy, but it becomes second nature after a day of fiddling around.

I did buy a small clip on light to attach to the cover and this can be done but it is a bit of a fiddle because the Kindle fits so snugly into it.

Do you remember the unfortunate tale of my fiddle leaf fig tree?

Let's face it» wandering through Hades on Holy Saturday with a God - forsaken Jesus as a companion, with no resurrected glory, would be preferable to most versions of fiddling on a cloud accompanied by a host of trumpeting believers.

His opposite number, Greg Clark, accused the government of fiddling for the last decade while other countries had made headway.

«Ex-Labour MP Jim Devine convicted of fiddling his expenses Main A full breakdown of how all MPs voted on votes for prisoners»

Tasker sounds like the perfect app for people who get tired of fiddling with their settings all the time... in other words, for everyone.

When we first moved in, it took months of fiddling with the faucets before we figured out how to coax a good shower out of the pipes.

For those running an AirBnb or who are just plain sick of fiddling with keys, the Schlage Z - Wave offers a ton of value.

Usually, a few seconds of fiddling in the Bluetooth section of the Pixel 2's Settings app re-established a connection, but this is not the seamless experience I would expect from wireless headphones.

First you've need to buy different kinds to power different devices, then you've got the hassle of fiddling about to fit new ones.

Instead of fiddling about with custom load outs and little tweaks players simply choose a weapon upon spawning on the map, just like an old - school first person shooter.

That's still far quicker than the typical process of fiddling around with power buttons and lock screen shortcuts.

«The scandal of fiddled global warming data,» The Telegraph, June 21, 2014.

While I admitted my plant challenges with the tale of my Fiddle Leaf Fig troubles, I still adore creative gardening in small spaces.

One good way to get started is to use a lazy portfolio, a balanced collection of index funds designed to do well in most market conditions with a minimum of fiddling from you.

There is hope that something may happen in the future, though, because Congress does have a history of fiddling with the 401 (k) plan structure.

With Veckatimest, Grizzly Bear has seemingly found a way to reverse the effects of their fiddling — it's like they injected a huge influx of warmth and sunniness into their normal wall of sound.

Attention to the oppressed in careful exclusion of the kinds of cosmic problems which may preclude the possibility of all liberation and all oppression, even all life, is a prime example of fiddling while the world burns.

I love the look of fiddle leaf figs, monstera deliciosas, snake plants, and rubber plants — all of which you'll find in my living room (pictured above).

My goal was to chop the flesh into small cubes but by the end of me fiddling with the poor thing, it looked like it had been through a slow death.

A lot of fiddling happened.

The Cabriö Hybrid isn't one of those diapers that require a lot of fiddle farting for the perfect fit, and that's AWESOME.

These beautiful little books feature loads of brightly colored tags for hours of fiddling fun!

The Union Election Commission, responding to claims of fiddled voter lists and wax covering the NLD box on the ballot papers, has vowed to investigate and prosecute electoral fraud.

Even as Chancellor, Gordon Brown had a track record of fiddling figures and concealing the truth.

The bulk of the fiddling comes from members of parliament «flipping» properties, so that they can claim on whichever property they like.

Culture Secretary Maria Miller has been cleared of fiddling her expenses.

They are also deluded if they think that their exercise of fiddling while Rome burns is the way to appeal to voters of any stripe.

Until recently, that sort of fiddling with human DNA was only science fiction and allegory, a warning against a new kind of eugenics that could pit the genetic haves and have - nots against each other.

Between experiments, Finch practiced the «drone» style of fiddling on two or three strings simultaneously, a technique that yields bagpipelike results that Scots - Irish settlers brought to the Appalachians in the 18th century.

They're both casual looks that I sport to the office (the joy of working in advertising and not having to wear a suit or power - dress) and it lets me focus on my work instead of fiddling uncomfortably in my chair.