Sentence examples for been manipulated by a from inspiring English sources

Mr. Thomas added that prosecutors had been "manipulated by a professed, professional liar".

Occasionally Fiona appears to have been manipulated by a lesser "puppeteer" who allowed her to "float" -- that is, lack the illusion of weight and contact with the ground.

As in every country whose legal system has for too long been manipulated by a dictatorship, it is going to take time.

It gives little away to say that at the end of the novel its protagonist must choose whether to relish or deplore the fact that she has been manipulated by a writer of fiction.

Many adults, especially those of the well-educated, professionally accomplished variety, don't like that feeling one bit and may complain about having been manipulated by a genuinely scary movie like "Jaws".

But American views on the subject have also been manipulated by a campaign by energy producers — mainly the Koch brothers (who back the Tea Party) and the American Petroleum Institute — to paint climate change as an invention of anti-growth liberal tree-huggers.

The Picasso heirs' lawyer had suggested in court that the couple might have been manipulated by an art smuggling ring.

Such technology, however, relies on the ability to certify that the quantum mechanically produced numbers are actually random, and that they haven't been manipulated by an adversary.

Bill Clinton was manipulated by a man who made billions manipulating foreign markets.

He is manipulated by a resentful senior hoodlum into slaughtering the leader of a rival gang.

The trees seem to be manipulated by a gigantic poetic intelligence.