The drawback is that because Amevive fiddles with the T cell process, the drug may leave patients vulnerable to infection.

FORBES: Skin Deep

It was humiliating, but in contrast to the technocratic fiddles with which Mr Brown has hitherto tried to rescue himself, it was bold and big enough to be understood by voters.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

Exelixis fiddles with those of the common fruit fly.

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He fiddles with his pens.

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People saw them for what they were, a hundred and two faeries and a dead boy proceeding down the hall with harps and flutes, crowded in the service elevator with fiddles and lutes, marching out of the hospital with drums.

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But this is also the chancellor who courts private financiers to build public infrastructure, who stuck to the Tories' tight spending plans in his first two years in office, and who fiddles and fusses with the tax and benefit systems to ensure money goes to the deserving, not the idle, poor.

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With twin fiddles you get an interesting chorus effect when they are playing the same note at a different pitch.

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Accounting fiddles, such as replacing Family Credit (spending) with the Working Families Tax Credit (not spending) have helped too.

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Peter Duff, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Aberdeen, told the committee he agreed with Lord Carloway that corroboration "could go" and stressed there were a number of "corroboration fiddles" used to get round the law and there was a lack of clarity in this "very complex area of law".

BBC: Justice Committee 2