Sentence examples for manipulated into believing from inspiring English sources

We are being deceived and manipulated into believing austerity is in our best interest yet public services are being decimated.

Victims of sexual slavery are often manipulated into believing that they are being relocated to work in legitimate forms of employment.

4), Brent Staples discusses the author's cynical suggestion that racism runs so deep that white Americans couldn't possibly elect a black man as president unless they had been manipulated into believing he was "safe".

And yes, I know I'm being manipulated into believing that the judges really are opening up their homes to the contestants in the round where the final 12 acts are chosen.

"The victims of A&O's scam were looking for a conservative investment, and they were manipulated into believing A&O was a safe, secure, no-risk investment," Neil H. MacBride, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, said in a statement.

It features a society where citizens are under intense surveillance and are manipulated into believing things that aren't really true.

Wegner has found that people can often be manipulated into believing that they willed or intended behavior that is in fact caused by another person's manipulation and, conversely, that they exerted no control over movements that were in fact their own as with Ouija boards, with or without a cheating, intentionally directive confederate (Wegner and Wheatley 1999; Wegner 2002).

Victims are manipulated into believing something bad will happen to them unless they remit cash," said Sergeant Dave Costantini in a press release.