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There's something ultimately a bit totalitarian about it, a technology that's designed to manipulate the viewer much more profoundly than the usual emotional manipulation we're accustomed to something almost propagandistic.

Frank Dobson, a former energy minister, said the electricity market had become a speculator's racket designed to manipulate the market.

Frank Dobson, a former energy minister, said the electricity market had become a speculators' racket designed to manipulate the market.

Some characterise his motives as a ploy designed to manipulate the religiously inclined and warn that it could be used to undermine the country's version of Islamic democracy.

It's an approach to conflict that's "designed to manipulate the adversary's picture of reality, misinform it, and eventually interfere with the decision-making process of individuals, organisations, governments and societies".

The promise lasted several months, during which time five giant international electricity sellers -- all new to California -- imported the techniques they'd learned in Britain: "stacking," "cramming," "phantom scheduling" and other maneuvers designed to manipulate the bidding process and in a single month produce profits once permitted for an entire year.

Film music is absolutely designed to manipulate mood, from the great Bernard Herrman, who did the soundtracks to Hitchcock's Psycho and Vertigo, to Scorsese's Taxi Driver among many, to Ennio Morricone's spaghetti westerns or John Williams and Jaws.

Domestic violence is not a single behaviour but a mix of assaulting and coercive physical, sexual, and psychological behaviours designed to manipulate and dominate the partner to achieve compliance and dependence.

Thus, if an intervention is designed to manipulate signal discernibility by the DARPP-32 system, the choice of the targeted neurotransmitter system has to be based on the specific goal.

"Our textbooks told us that the war in 1982 was a political ploy designed to manipulate people into supporting the dictatorship and to cover up the disappearances," said Lautaro Pirich, an 18-year-old.

To more directly determine the role of affect in concordance, studies designed to manipulate affect and examine the impact on subjective and genital responses need to be conducted.