Sentence examples for authorities manipulative from inspiring English sources
Since Guantánamo had opened, in January 2002, there had been 41 suicide attempts, most of them, according to the military authorities, "manipulative, self-injurious behaviour".
Nonsmoking by teenagers became a kind of rebellion, an anti-authority stance, a stand against manipulative companies.
SMT spinal manipulative therapy (spinal manipulation).
The broader authority also enabled the agency to accuse the bank of "employing a manipulative device," without proving that the bank actually manipulated the price of swaps.
Then, the Securities and Exchange Commission should be given explicit authority to issue rules against fraudulent, deceptive or manipulative acts and practices in credit-default swaps.
But Brazil's consumer protection authorities were also working extra shifts to guard against manipulative practices they said have been commonplace.
Perhaps these appeals – to the authority of reviewers, your own character, and to your friends' emotions – seem too manipulative.
Where wicked and manipulative people choose to harm children, it is always going to be impossible for public authorities fully to guarantee zero risk.
Camp authorities recorded around 32 attempts by prisoners to kill themselves before they stopped counting them and created a new category of "manipulative self-injurious behaviour", for which figures are not disclosed.
It's totally manipulative.
