Sentence examples for manipulated into thinking from inspiring English sources

He says: Since the royal assent of the Health and Social Care Act, which gives GPs the power to plan health services for patients, the public has been manipulated into thinking, through misinformation and deliberate falsehood, that the legislation will tear apart the NHS, selling it off to the highest bidder.

Africa was not only conquered, but in conquest, through the imposition of new religions and the misunderstanding of the aims of education, and later on through advertising, Africans were manipulated into thinking that their own heritage is backward: primitive, pagan, heathen, barbaric.

Our citizens must not be manipulated into thinking that being employed separates one from those actively working for social change.

When Hinamori is manipulated into thinking that Hitsugaya killed Sōsuke Aizen, Hitsugaya attacks Gin on the notion that he tricked her.

Likewise, O'Hara was badgered and manipulated into thinking that she was responsible for finding a murder victim or, as one message termed it, "offer her own flesh".

The Lion King tells the story of Simba, a young lion who is to succeed his father, Mufasa, as king; however, after Simba's uncle Scar murders Mufasa, Simba is manipulated into thinking he was responsible and flees into exile in shame and despair.

Lori Drew, another mother in the neighborhood, said in a police report that she had created a MySpace profile of a boy, an invention named "Josh Evans," and that she and her daughter had manipulated Megan into thinking that this fabricated person liked her.

"She just completely manipulated me into thinking that I needed her and I wanted it," Jamie told KTLA.

Designers, then, have to manipulate you into thinking they are doing something spectacular, and that's why runway shows exist.

So what Vagisil does is pretend to be our friend, helping us deal with this smell that's been plaguing our social life; in reality they are manipulating us into thinking we stink in the first place.

"We would, in retrospect, manipulate parents into thinking they needed [Power Education]," Zena said to me.