A celebrated debate on this question took place in the House of Commons in January 1690; but the evident intention of the Whigs to perpetuate their own ascendancy by tampering with the franchise contributed largely to the Tory reaction which resulted in the defeat of the Whigs in the elections of that year.
After promising fidelity and the abandonment of the Scots marriage scheme, Cecil took him corresponding with Mary and tampering with the Ridolfi plot.
As long as the Watchers could keep the Others from tampering with their fates, both children would fulfill their paths and usher in a new phase of the war between good and evil.
At a time when everything depended on the army, they had destroyed the main tie which bound the Austrian court to their interests by tampering with the relation of the Hungarian army to the crown.
Believe it or not, science has been tampering with feline genetics for years, trying to genetically alter cats to produce a viable breeding strain that lacks the Fel d1 protein.
During the divorce proceedings, you need to take great care to make sure that you are not tampering with property that belongs to both of you or your spouse alone in any way.
General Joubert accused the government of tampering with the returns, and appealed to the volksraad.
Her hands flew over the keypads as she checked the networks for signs of tampering.
Her tampering successfully sealed her in the room.
I cannot. My Sight has been stunted, no doubt as punishment for my tampering in Fate's court.
If it's one of them Dawkins, it might be considered jury tampering.
In consequence of this tampering with the market no certainty can be felt about the effect even of expert dealing.
It is allowable to deceive an enemy by fabricated despatches purporting to come from his own side; by tampering with telegraph 1112Ssages; by spreading false intelligence in newspapers; by sending pretended spies and deserters to give him untrue reports of the numbers or movements of the troops; by employing false signals to lure him into an ambuscade.
Many advocates of a raw cat food diet claim that this scientific tampering is unnecessary, and they believe that the domestic feline can survive just as well as its feral counterpart on a diet of raw meats.
She was banned from swimming for four years in 1998, however, for tampering with a drug test sample of urine.
She'd already tested the lock and found it to be beyond tampering.
Still more serious an encroachment upon the constitution perhaps even than the institution of the major-generals was Cromwell's tampering with the municipal franchise by confiscating the charters, depriving the burgesses, now hostile to his government, of their parliamentary votes, and limiting the franchise to the corporation; thereby corrupting the national liberties at their very source, and introducing an evil precedent only too readily followed by Charles II.
That's tampering with evidence.
The candidate of the former, Dr Nicolas Avellaneda, triumphed over General Mitre, not without suspicions of tampering with the returns; and the unsuccessful party appealed to arms. The new president, however, who was installed in office on the 12th of October, took active steps to suppress the revolution, which never assumed a really serious character.
The desk will command the space between you and whoever enters your office and prevent them from tampering with your work.
The Editor stated that " expert photographers declared there has been no tampering with the negatives.
The Editor stated that expert photographers declared there has been no tampering with the negatives.
The kiosk has tape residue, scratches, dark marks or other signs that someone may have been tampering with it.
The Roman archbishop and the Orthodox metropolitans were forced to serve on its committee side by side with Protestant pastors; and village popes, trained to regard any tampering with the letter of 1 Savary to Napoleon, Nov.
The warranty does not apply to damage resulting from abuse, accident, alteration, improper assembly, misuse or tampering.
This would easily allow clarification of what is 100-years-ago vague without really tampering with the text.
Touching or tampering with the vehicle will almost certainly be an offense.