Sentence examples for manipulated against from inspiring English sources

Parliament was marginalised, the parties manipulated against each other, and Bismarck threatened to resign whenever he was seriously challenged.

Their exasperation was audible, as was the hair-raising sound of flatware being forcibly manipulated against china plates.

In band-knife cutting, blocks cut from the lay with round or straight-knife machines are trimmed precisely to pattern specifications as the blocks are manipulated against the band-knife rotating in a fixed orbit.

The legal system is clearly being manipulated against him, and so could be against anyone else.Boom and bustThere is, of course, another picture of Russia, one painted by the investors flooding in at a rate not seen since its economic collapse five years ago.

One important aspect of Tiktaalik's fin structure is that because of the excellent preservation, the bones of the fin skeleton could be removed from the surrounding rock and actually manipulated against one another to investigate their range of movement.

This establishes a frame of reference for the dominant hand to manipulate against [39].

Security chiefs have manipulated Islamists against it, and it has suffered countless other indignities.

Jasjfi is being manipulated, moved against her will, but she looks perfectly happy, as do the other women whom, throughout the show, the men lay hands on and press their bodies against and twirl like lariats.

As he slowly inveigles himself into their lives, a sinister tone is set as he manipulates husband against wife, wife against nanny, and nanny against boyfriend.

In many cases, iSIGHT's analysts discovered bugs in the malware that could be manipulated and used against the hackers.

Wayang, also spelled Wajang, (Javanese: "shadow"), classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets manipulated by rods against a translucent screen lit from behind.