Voorbeelden van tinkering

• Unless its contingent and intersubjective aspects are recognized, it is unlikely to produce good intelligence, regardless of its susceptibility to political tinkering.

• Here, legislators are likely to anticipate its behaviour and the degree of ex post tinkering that a specific policy could be subject to.

• The democratic cause advances through motivated and cumulative tinkering with the arrangements underlying such schemes.

• Are they at the level of invention or of 'tinkering'?

• If electoral tinkering could not be performed by means of emergency powers and federal intervention, an absolute majority of electoral votes was not likely.

• Some regimes, of course, prove more successful at this task than others through constitutional and legislative tinkering, judicial manipulation, and tolerating legislative bodies and trials.

• All parties had access to this research, and minor tinkering has taken place with phraseology in the new edition.

• The answer is negotiable; but must be stated and addressed if tinkering is to amount to science.

• Drury demonstrates that humans are inexorably in thrall to global change, for all our uncomprehending tinkering.

• In turn, this case study shows that the political tinkering behind fiscal decentralisation policies can be grasped more precisely when we examine the distribution of seemingly small-scale grants.

• Even when a regulation fails to protect its protected classes, it may not warrant redesign, at least not before exhausting all possibilities of incremental reform and modest tinkering.

• A choice between tinkering at the edges or taking forceful measures.

• It is quite evident that the tinkering which is going to be done to-day is going to continue.

• For this reason, it would be wrong for us to do any tinkering.

• There must be no tinkering, but a reduction next year of expenditure to the tune of at least £500 million.