(1) Congress has been tinkering with the legislation.

(2) He spends every weekend tinkering with his car.

(3) Stop tinkering with that clock and take it to the repair shop.

(4) He likes tinkering with computers.

(5) Who's been tinkering with the wiring?

(6) He was tinkering away at the broken machine.

(7) Dad was always tinkering around with engines.

(8) He's in the garage tinkering with his bike.

(9) No amount of tinkering is going to improve matters.

(10) He's outside tinkering around with his bike.

(11) He was tinkering at the television set.

(12) I wish the government would stop tinkering with the health service.

(13) The government is merely tinkering at the edges of a much wider problem.

(14) The password will prevent others from tinkering with your data.

(15) She spent the afernoon tinkering about in the garden shed.

(16) Clearly, substantial changes are needed rather than tinkering.

(17) Governments are not very good at tinkering.

(18) Total design is much more satisfying than tinkering.

(19) In fact, a tinkering government is a dangerous thing.

(20) The government is tinkering with minor matters while the Crown Court burns a substantial amount of money.

(21) As of last week, Sun was still tinkering with the Viking's clock speeds.

(22) Slowly tinkering with the final pages, so I can have them as a Christmas present for Stanley.

(23) President Clinton is also tinkering with private pension plans to finance his own social agenda.

(24) Manning had some aluminum foil that they were tinkering with at the plant.

(25) Any tinkering by users would negate the principle of a worldwide standard.

(26) It needed nerds tinkering brilliantly in California to create new communication technologies.

(27) In a complicated system, though, tinkering with one component can put another one out of kilter.

(28) They haven't made any real changes to the system — they've just been tinkering around a bit.

(29) It was supposed to keep retirement benefits safe from politicians' tinkering.

(30) To spice up some of their machines, parlor owners have been tinkering illegally with the odds.

(1) Congress has been tinkering with the legislation.

(2) He spends every weekend tinkering with his car.

(3) Stop tinkering with that clock and take it to the repair shop.

(4) She spent the afernoon tinkering about in the garden shed.

(31) No one should doubt the political sensitivity of tinkering with this most fundamental of issues.

(32) But he got so frustrated with the software available for economic modeling that he began tinkering.

(33) History is littered with examples of people tinkering, tampering and then tumbling.

(34) More complex designs presumably require tinkering with Visual Basic scripts.

(35) Mr Reaves himself likens his operation to tinkering on a Model A Ford with screwdrivers and a pair of pliers.

(36) The government also is tinkering with how it tallies Hispanic citizens and in what order questions are put to respondents.

(37) The task they serve evolves as they are developed, and it is tempting to continue tinkering endlessly.

(38) The device showed evidence of much tinkering, and was clearly not yet functional.

(39) Small-boat owners were off at moorings indulging themselves, checking gear or tinkering with engines.

(40) But others say he's just tinkering, re-engineering.

(41) A tinkering slave-maker, who mends old chains.

(42) The most important factor I like tinkering with machines.

(43) But following the ruckus over the AEP, several states are tinkering with the course material.

(44) If we accept this kind of tinkering, can't we accept cloning?

(45) France's tinkering with Meccano is a part of a renewed trend of industrial intervention by governments in rich countries.

(46) Benitez-Nelson said putting iron in the ocean raises ethical questions about "tinkering with mother nature.

(47) Tinkering with transfer - pricing rules or CFC rules will not solve the problem.

(48) This frees the developer from tinkering with complex configuration options at the initial get-go and allows him or her to experiment immediately with the template engine.

(49) Stop tinkering with my television and take it to the repair shop.

(50) The most important factor is I like tinkering with machines.

(51) Roddick was equivocal, but admitted that he had been tinkering with that part of his game.

(52) It also frees up more spectrum for tinkering on unlicensed space.

(53) By tinkering with the chemical structure they could develop drugs to treat human trypanosomiasis.

(54) Extrapolating a global average from such data involves an amount of tinkering—or homogenisation.

(55) Both parties are disstisfied with " piecemeal tinkering " and " muddling through ".

(56) And they are tinkering with a tomato that stops ripening the moment it is harvested.

(57) Young people grow up in tightly structured childhoods, Wuthnow observes, but then graduate into a world characterized by uncertainty, diversity[ ], searching and tinkering.

(58) The Puffin may never fly, but other inventors are tinkering.