The phrase "a way of manipulating" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing methods or techniques for influencing or controlling something or someone.
Example: "The author describes a way of manipulating public opinion through targeted media campaigns."
Alternatives: "a method of influencing" or "a technique for controlling".
Power has a way of manipulating the targets of her lobbying without alienating them.
Like that film, this novel uses a childs perception tinged with wonder and never entirely alive to the reality of evil as a way of manipulating the emotional tone.
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed: even if mighty politico-commercial influences pushed governments into doing what they did, that is another matter – a way of manipulating markets rather than participating properly in them – and was not the fault of the stock exchange.
And land - an issue that lies at the very heart of tribal identity - was carved up and parcelled out as a way of manipulating electoral numbers and returning political favours.
From each participant, we obtained magnetic resonance imaging scans and behavioural data from a picture naming task that contrasted naming performance with living and non-living things as a way of manipulating perceptual and semantic confusability; living things are more similar to one another than non-living things, which have more distinctive features.
Unfortunately, some people use illness as a way of manipulating others.
Awarding points for being an obedient student might be seen as a cheap way of manipulating behavior.
A new way of manipulating video footage has captured mesmerizing images of starlings in flight.
Such findings suggest a controllable way of manipulating the optical properties of doped graphene materials.
Holographic Optical Tweezers (HOT) are a versatile way of manipulating microscopic particles in 3D.
The findings of this study are expected to provide a better understanding of how fluids interact with micro-scaled structures and to offer a new way of manipulating fluids at the micron and nanometer scales.
