Sentences with phrase «record of fiddling»

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The test of judicial fitness could hardly be put more starkly: «The issue is too important to American society — and Mr. Clinton's promise too clear — to fiddle around with judicial candidates who don't have a forthright record of legal and moral support for the constitutional right to abortion.»

Despite his displays often seeming to be languid and slow - paced, Dzeko has a fine goalscoring record for Manchester City, having bagged 46 league goals for the club, an impressive record considering he has spent much of that time playing second fiddle to Sergio Aguero and Mario Balotelli.

Unfortunately, I can't say the same about «I Could Never Be Your Woman,» even if it does star Michelle Pfieffer, Paul Rudd, Henry Winkler, Fred Willard, Jon Lovitz, and Tracy Ullman; director Amy Heckerling has too many failures on her track record, and the plot description — Ullman plays Mother Nature, who fiddles with the romantic fates of four individuals — sounds designed for a straight - to - video special.

I just think the world might be a better place if Drs. Hanson, Mann, Jones, etc. would spend their time on real research, rather than fiddling with the «statistical residue» of tree rings, thermometer records, etc..

Hey, it occurs to me that GISS's fiddling of the instrumental record is a climatic form of Ponzi scheme.

You can fiddle about with all sorts of settings, muting sound while recording, toggling the preview on and off, picking from a handful of special filter effects and more.

In terms of other products: PC games platform Qzone record 611 million month active users — up 5.9 percent year - on - year and 1.4 percent quarterly, while its Tencent Weibo microblog — which so often plays second fiddle to Sina Weibo — recorded 81 million active users per day.