Sentence examples for manipulate the timing from inspiring English sources
Second, banks can manipulate the timing of payments to maximize penalty charges.
More than half of the eleven and a half thousand signals in the five boroughs are connected to computers in the management center, and the city's traffic engineers can manipulate the timing of those signals throughout the day.
As our study shows, high-status parents are more likely to break the age rule and manipulate the timing of school entry for their children.
We expect that families from better backgrounds have more resources with which to manipulate the timing of their child's school entry.
In practice, however, given that only one school-starting date in September is offered by the school system each year, it is easier for parents of September–December-born children to manipulate the timing of their children's school entry.
Instead the optimal strategy may be to manipulate the timing, intensity and spatial distribution of grazing to gradually transition the state of the grassland towards a more diverse plant community.
To characterize the extent to which selective attention mechanisms are impaired when information is not time-locked, in Experiment 3 we manipulated the timing of the onset of the HUD-based secondary information (−500, −250, 0, 250, and 500 milliseconds relative to primary visual search task onset).
Even now, dozens of senior managers are under investigation for "backdating" their share options—illegally manipulating the timing of grants to increase the likelihood of a payment.
There has been limited research in this area (because it is non-patentable and hence unprofitable), but studies suggest that manipulating the timing of sleep can be a way to treat depression.
Tuesday's lawsuit contends that the investigators have a "predisposition to make findings against Governor Palin" and are manipulating the timing of the inquiry "so as to affect the outcome of elections" by not agreeing to release the report after Nov. 4.
As such, in Experiment 3, we manipulated the timing of the onset of the secondary information.
