Failure to accept responsibility for own actions: a failure to accept responsibility for one's actions reflected in low conscientiousness, an absence of dutifulness, antagonistic manipulation, denial of responsibility, and an effort to manipulate others through this denial.
There was a concerted, organised effort to manipulate public opinion.
Through his lawyer, Mr. Marsch said he had no knowledge of Mr. Minkow's effort to manipulate Lennar's stock price.
It's easier to understand such measures as part of an effort to manipulate the political process to stay in power.
In the settlement, British and American authorities detailed an effort to manipulate the rate-setting process, a five-year scheme that involved multiple currencies and countries.
"China is linking the territorial issue to financial issues in an effort to manipulate Japan," said Koji Murata, a professor of international relations at Doshisha University in Kyoto.
The panel concluded that there had been no coördinated effort to manipulate test scores, a finding that Perdue called "woefully inadequate".
It is not necessarily safe to conclude that represents an effort to manipulate the market, or public perceptions about Mr. Romney's chances.
In responding to that motion, Judge Wolin speculated indirectly that the effort to force him to step down might have been an effort to manipulate and delay proceedings.
And he implicitly cast what Mr. Gore was doing as an effort to manipulate Americans' thinking and what he was doing as a defense against that.
He produced the results of the earlier state investigation, which found no evidence of fraud, as proof there was no systemic effort to manipulate graduation and promotion rates.
