fiddling

Most analysts and traders expect little drama from the Fed, but many do expect at least some fiddling around the margins.

But the fiddling of the election and its violent aftermath seems to have swept him up.

Peter : Well, they have a point, but I'd rather go in for something a bit more interesting than fiddling around with figures all day.

If he keeps fiddling with the clock, he is sure to put it out of order.

He keeps fiddling with the dials on the radio, he is sure to put it out of order.

A cat came fiddling out of a barn, With a pair of bagpipes under her arm.

He tore his gaze away from her with difficulty, looking down at his hands, and fiddling with the broken twigs.

It's a displacement activity (fiddling) because you've made him a little nervous, plus an unconscious desire to remove his clothes.

Picking up the device, the female western lowland gorilla called Bawang, began to examine it, even fiddling with the buttons.

She took my kids into the garden and, on returning, found me fiddling with her CD player.

The only reason you're fiddling with the other two settings is to compensate for your fast shutter needs.

I tend to stop before fiddling around for too long, as it's too easy to get carried away over-detailing wooden patterns.

"He's not dead, " Marc said, fiddling now with his box of cigarettes. "You said he was dead. "

While you're in there fiddling with the databases, you may as well create the tables that Blahg will use in the beginning.

Some days later, she was surprised to find that girls always fiddling with the hands of a small crane, if passed, never stop.

He had been fiddling with a new Polaroid camera, which prompted the obvious question: Was he a photographer too?

No amount of fiddling with your current career is going to make you happy.

Every one fiddling with books and fighting for getting higher education are familiar with the word essay.

More than two years after stories of expense-fiddling first disgraced Parliament, guilty parties are still receiving their comeuppance.

Teams on projects the company is merely 'fiddling with, ' he says, will get 'naturally smaller as people get plucked off. '

You want to walk barefoot on the warm floors. You want to read in bed, with lighting that works without fiddling with a thousand buttons.

Mr Sarkozy bores easily, tapping his feet, twitching or fiddling with his mobile phone when others speak.

South Korea now serves a faithful running dog for the United States, while fiddling with his neighbors like China and Japan.

Fiddling with the little brushes, fine powders and sticky tape can test the patience of the most fastidious crime-scene investigator.

Increasing the planet's resilience will probably involve a few dramatic changes and a lot of fiddling.

I have a hunch, however, that I might be able to improve Psyco's speed by fiddling with some algorithm details.

We have changed the balance since the WWI build and will be fiddling with the balance this coming week for sure.

A few seconds of fiddling let scientists and engineers multiply , divide and find square and cube roots.

eg. He had been fiddling with a new Polaroid camera.

A more likely intervention would be some fiddling with court pace.

rather than fiddling with font sizes or checking email, you are encouraged to get on with your writing.

I spent a good part of two days fiddling with noise values, specular values, reflections etc.

rather than fiddling with font sizes or checking e-mail, you are encouraged to get on with your writing.

Don't stand there fiddling about, go on with your job.

It might spell the end of fiddling around for remote controls in between the sofa cushions.

But behind it lurks another troubling development: advanced nations fiddling their carbon reduction figures.

Stop fiddling about with that radio set and listen to me.

He was always fiddling around with the camera taking everyone else's picture.

All you're going to see is a lot of fiddling around.

The environmental group Energy Action depicted Bush as Emperor Nero fiddling while the planet burned. The group called on the U.

Fiddling with any of those factors will change the magnitude.

He was always fiddling around with the camera taking everyone else's picture, I must have a million picture of Mom and me smiling together.

But reading experts question whether fiddling with the parameters of books ultimately degrades the act of reading.

Fiddling with your GPS can create a significant distraction if you find that it's given you the wrong information.

Come on, you kids! Stop fiddling around with that stupid video game.

To prevent malevolent fiddling the DNS infrastructure itself needs to be secured, too.

I just got the amp, but after fiddling around with it, I'm very pleased.

Secondly, the weight and size it to prevent them from fiddling with it.

"Republik" helped to express public anger with politicians who had been caught fiddling their expenses, and to whip up calls for self-rule.

At his desk Sir Lindsay appears nervous, fiddling with his glasses and brushing back his hair.

Optimists, however, argue there may be benefits from today's fad for currency fiddling.

Correct redirection when user logs out and wants to register as a student. Some fiddling with login screens etc.

By fiddling with currencies, however, the adjustments needed are being deflected.

It's so annoying, the way she kept fiddling about with her hair.

In Kansas City, Missouri, a young commercial artist was fiddling with animation.

You will almost certainly end up with something which almost works, which you will then spend hours fiddling with to get it going.

One practical problem you might run into while fiddling with multiple browsers is window clutter.

After 20 minutes of fiddling with the security settings for my Wi-Fi base station, iTunes finally recognized Remote.

That is, China may be busy fiddling with clean-coal technology, but that doesn't mean the country is going to widely deploy the technology.

The suggestion of fiddling public finances flummoxed and infuriated him.

Yes, a limited league can be created easily, but there's much more fun in refining it, adding rules, fiddling with dates and so on.

Monica: Yeah, I've just been fiddling around in here making delicious treats for everyone.

In this sense, we are nowhere near a 'complete' solution which will not need fiddling with again.

Xenophobic fiddling with the share register helps nobody.

An old man was fiddling away at the street corner.

Democrats were accused of fiddling with state law for partisan advantage.

Many of the traditional tunes Reed played became popular again during the fiddling revival of the later 20th century.

But with proper test instrument design, you can now plug the instrument into the PC LAN port and it will work-no excuses, no fiddling.

Iran says it is fiddling with uranium and plutonium to produce more electricity.

Rafa should stop fiddling around and put out the strongest team against the lower clubs such as, Derby, Wigan and Luton.

Such fiddling with tradition would shock many Jews, but others enjoy it.

Greece was fiddling the fiscal books long before most people had heard of AIG.

Although commercial outfits such as manufacturing plants were the first customers, Carrier kept fiddling with his invention.

I'm sorry Fiddling with youself in bathtub is a real class act.

The lesson is that institutional fiddling is not a substitute for political courage.

I turn on the engine impatiently. I'm fiddling with the radio when I hear something.

Luckily, you can quickly turn it on without much fiddling around.

Look for scratching or fiddling with clothing.

I will give the gentleman anything he asks, if only he quits fiddling, even a purse filled with gold.

On the fourth my hands are fiddling with my ears.

Instead they look at fiddling with university admissions.

This is not something that any amount of fiddling with red tape will bring about.

Well, we'd better get started and stop fiddling about.

What is the nature of the singing and fiddling traditions of the English language communities of Britain and North America?

Someone's been fiddling with the accounts. There is some money missing.

Some, including their whip in the House, were caught fiddling with their BlackBerrys.

By fiddling with the rates at which benefits are withdrawn from those who find work, Mr Duncan Smith hopes it will always pay to take a job.

With women's tears it is continuously fiddling.

Bath over, I took to fiddling with other buttons and knobs in the bedroom.

He was fiddling about with the car engine.

"It's made in China? Really? I had no idea, " said travel agent Xiao Wang, fiddling with a shop display iPad.

I gave up fiddling to focus on my race.

Put down my pen and stop fiddling!

'Have you got a spanner? ' said Winston, fiddling with the nut on the angle-joint.

He has been fiddling (around) with the car engine for hours, but I don't think he can fix it.

I was fiddling in the fields.

It is the notion of fiddling that is the key.

I start fiddling with it. I came up with this letter.

Last month an Iowa judge sentenced a producer to ten years in prison for fiddling credits.

is all the time fiddling with a pencil,

Have you ever seen a sales guy not fiddling with or talking on his Blackberry phone?

governments are fiddling the figures for political reasons