Sentence examples for better to manipulate from inspiring English sources
Now that the birds are back, George picks up his pace, walking all night in the wind and rain, taking detailed notes of which birds have returned, which nest sites are occupied, who is mating with whom -- all written into one of his yellow field journals with a pen taped to a footlong tent stake, the better to manipulate it while wearing two pairs of gloves.
The notion is that women evolved "concealed ovulation" along with around-the-month sexual receptivity the better to manipulate males by keeping them in the dark, says Geoffrey Miller, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
Even as the spying goes on, sucking up and storing all the big data it can find, the corporations are now out-hoovering the NSA, better to manipulate the marketplace, that is, if the consumertariat has any money left to spend.
But an increasing role of "likability" factors, which we now understand better how to manipulate, is not good for democracy.
That mission has largely been accomplished, according to a 1995 report from an outside task force, although there remains a need for greater computing power, better tools to manipulate and distribute massive electronic databases, and broader access to such technologies.
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.
We assume that these results reflect either the increased ability of the patient to control his eye movements while viewing prepubertal stimuli or his better ability to manipulate his answer in a socially desirable manner.
Besides being a good tool for their hunger Cheerios have an added benefit in being a distraction (going from the pincer grasp phase into being better able to manipulate objects), and for boys, they can be put in the commode/toilet and be used as targets which is an encouragement.
So you had better learn how to manipulate them back.
