The phrase "a position to manipulate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's ability or opportunity to influence or control a situation or outcome.
Example: "In her role as project manager, she found herself in a position to manipulate the team's dynamics to achieve better results."
Alternatives: "an opportunity to influence" or "a chance to control".
This will become a problem because, in the majority of cases, a defendant will have considerably deeper pockets than a claimant and will be in a position to manipulate the system using financial advantage to stifle claims.
The Kiwis, should they choose - as they did once in Australia - could be in a position to manipulate the outcome, although why they should want to do so is not clear: they are so much the best side of the three in the series that surely they would not mind either way.
Porta's account thus has the marked and unorthodox tendency to eclipse human agency aside from the figure of the natural magus, who by dint of his natural talent, erudition, and wealth is in a position to manipulate and command the natural properties of many substances and objects.
But it's also partly the fault of those in a position to manipulate us.
Can he make a globalized system work for the betterment of all, and not merely those best in a position to manipulate it?
We are not yet in a position to manipulate the suite of mutations that arise, and thus we instead controlled the environment of selection.
By 1922 he was in a unique position to manipulate policies to his own ends by virtue of the fact that he alone belonged to both the Politburo, which set policy, and the Secretariat, which managed personnel.
With 48% of the pipeline capacity entering the state, the Houston-based company seemed to be in a perfect position to manipulate the market.
The high-ranking individuals are also in a better position to manipulate other individuals in the social group and so can be more successful as diplomats.
The state attorney general filed suit today against Suffolk County's former director of real estate, Allan Grecco, saying he used his position to manipulate land transactions to benefit a prominent developer with whom his private company did business.
In April, Eliot Spitzer, the state attorney general, filed a lawsuit against Suffolk's former director of real estate, Allan Grecco, saying he used his position to manipulate land transactions to benefit a prominent developer with whom his private title company did business.
