Sentence examples for clever manipulator from inspiring English sources

A clever manipulator, he persuaded many of them and, for a while, a lot of his compatriots that he was fighting a conspiracy of white farmers and British colonialists.

The bourgeoisie, represented by the right-wing parties, thought they had elected in Lamartine a clever manipulator who could placate the proletariat while military forces capable of establishing order, such as they conceived of it, were being reconstituted.

(That is despite the fact she speaks only passable English, while her Russian is fluent).But she is more than a clever manipulator of the centre: witness her long list of planned reforms, which are quite radical in the German context: simplifying tax, overhauling pensions, reducing job protection and curbing the trade unions.

Some saw him as a clever manipulator, willing to take risks to underpin his regime.

So that we would know who "they" are, those clever manipulators who had subverted the American national interest?

But too often they position us as savvy analysts of a scene we are encouraged to view from a certain distance, as if we were spectators to our own democracy, or clever manipulators of our fellow citizens.

Markets have a way of outsmarting and humiliating the cleverest manipulators.

More notable was the televised sight of Mr. Saleh, a defiant and clever political manipulator whose image is reproduced on posters around Yemen.

What makes the manipulator manipulate?

At Monday's sentencing, David Zornow, a lawyer for Mr. Goel, called Mr. Rajaratnam a "master manipulator" and "clever seducer" who played his client "like a fiddle".

'Was she manipulated or the manipulator?