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Formula One drivers have no spare concentration for operating fiddly controls, or trying to look at small, hidden gauges.

Explicit government ownership would be an improvement over the onerous, fiddly and capricious intervention of today.

The latest phone interfaces are as tempting to us as a morsel of cheese to a mouse, but they remain infuriatingly fiddly.

The fiddly verities concern the ways in which finance can indeed be made a bit more efficient or fairer.

For the time being, he says, getting VoIP to work on a mobile handset would be too fiddly for most people.

One way of identifying a substance without resorting to fiddly chemical methods is to determine its density.

Getting them to behave in huge circular accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider is fiddly.

Disadvantages: Expensive; can be fiddly, since you need to adjust the water level until it's right for you.

Poland wants fiddly changes that might make it easier to keep burning coal and not be bankrupted by the ETS.

Outside the state firms, the fiddly conglomerate is the favoured form of organisation.

His filing cabinets are packed with the fiddly paper prototypes of nascent games, his mantelpiece stuffed with awards.

Closing international organisations down is more difficult, involving fiddly decisions on pensions and redundancies.

As for the Polish business lobby, profits in Russia loom larger than fiddly questions about history and justice.

THE keyboards that appear on tablet computers using a touch screen, such as the Apple iPad, can be a touch fiddly to use.

At key moments, though, this apparently fiddly hierarchy can be decisive.

Indian bankers joke that all the fiddly rules they face have become the envy of regulators throughout the world.

Sign up and it assumes you want to share as much data as possible; if not, you have to change the settings, which can be a fiddly business.

Laptop computers and personal digital assistants (PDAs) needed fiddly cables to get online, and even then did so at a snail's pace .

One way to identify a substance without resorting to fiddly chemical methods is to determine its density.

Actually, the Communist International and the West Marxism one-fiddly had understood Lucar is wonderful.

The full keyboard is very handy for annotating books and for search but the keys themselves are fiddly and typing is slow.

Although many have simplified since 1990, most are still fiddly, with intricate chains of holding companies and subsidiaries.

But swift progress is difficult. Many topics are fiddly and technical, so rule-making takes time.

That would mean a lot of fiddly and lengthy adjustment to the matrix, and it's a difficult task to verify that the final matrix is correct.

The end result does look sensible: simple things will be held in more opaque loan books and fiddly things held at market prices.

But that is the way democracies work. The trick is to bind the fiddly immediate business of reform to a bolder vision.

Mobile phones: Typing text into a mobile phone is fiddly enough in English. How do handsets and their users manage in other languages?

A fiddly task like threading a needle often makes you frown.

That programme was about "weaponization" : the fiddly business of making a device that can set off a chain reaction in nuclear fuel.

10 simple things will be held in more opaque loan books and fiddly things held at market prices.

The solution unveiled this week is fiddly.