"manipulated events" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It could be used to describe events that have been deliberately and strategically altered or controlled by someone for a specific purpose or agenda. Example: The dictator's regime was built on a foundation of manipulated events, with propaganda and falsified information used to maintain control over the population.
Mr Nonaka must be regretting that he manipulated events to put the amiable but disaster-prone Mr Mori in charge.
Sinn Fein, the IRA's political wing, continues to claim that "securocrats" in intelligence and the civil service have manipulated events.
But Mr Hussein is guileful as well as guilty, and the tormentor of Iraq has manipulated events so that the West, through its insistence on the continuance of the United Nations' sanctions, has become the instrument of his countrymen's torment.
We are told that Garlic was the one who first had a vision of Tara, and then manipulated events to bring that vision to fruition, plotting his way into Planter's employ and plotting the ineffectual Planter's winning of the land in a card game.
Heart string tugs are manipulated events these days.
Ingrid had stalked Emma her entire life in preparation for the prophecy to become true, and manipulated events in Arendelle to bring Elsa to her.
For many years the Golden Globes were tainted with the perception that they were a quixotic and easily manipulated event, including charges that lavish gifts may have influenced the few dozen members who decide the awards.
In summary, in this second experiment we manipulated event timings in two ways: the overall delay of the probe after the array, and the delay of the probe after the cue (the 'CTI'CTI
Certain individuals we believe had intention to manipulate events, to facilitate betting on those events.
Rumors that they are manipulating events from behind the scene are unproved.
A lot of Tunisians are eager to move on.Talk of hidden hands manipulating events has long plagued Tunisian politics.
