The phrase "able to manipulate that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capability to control or influence a particular object, situation, or concept.
Example: "The software is designed to be user-friendly, allowing users to be able to manipulate that data easily."
Alternatives: "capable of handling that" or "able to control that".
For the individual looking for a higher education or trying to secure a decent job, what seems more humane: Admitting that, ugly, élitist, and unfair as it is, prescriptivism is currently the dialect of power and being able to manipulate that dialect can help you get ahead, or pretending that utopia is at hand, that everyone is a revolutionary, that linguistic anarchy will set you free?
It was impossible to manipulate that".
During the campaign, and until his departure from the White House in 2007, media members often suggested that Rove was able to manipulate Bush, and that Rove exerted considerable control over the government.
"There was an inference there that they were able to manipulate the judicial panel, but that wasn't the meaning of it at all," said Shiels.
If the image is correct, then it shows that living organisms are those material systems that are able to manipulate information so as to produce unexpected solutions that enable them to survive in an unpredictable future (Danchin, 2003, 2008a).
"We're able to manipulate time, so that even though we're four years into the show, we're only a year into the story," Mr. Cranston explained.
To do this, they need to understand and be able to manipulate every configurable element, something that is typically not possible when buying equipment off the shelf.
This article presents a novel scheduler, the energy efficient score-based scheduler (EESBS), and two novel techniques that are able to manipulate energy expenditure through resource scheduling, bandwidth expansion mode (BEM) and time compression mode (TCoM), that work together to reduce energy consumption in a wireless cellular system.
Due to the functional flexibility and far-reaching downstream consequences of SUMO, viruses have evolved different strategies that are able to manipulate the SUMO pathway and improve their survival [ 20– 25].
Despite Toshack and Johnston's lack of familiarity with having and acting as a runner respectively, and the resulting disorders in running between the wickets, Lindwall was able to manipulate the strike so that he faced most of the balls.
"The FTC looked into our recommendation software, what we say to businesses about it, what our salespeople say about our advertising programs, and how we ensure that our employees are not able to manipulate the ratings and reviews that we display on our platform.
