Sentence examples for manipulating others from inspiring English sources

7. Manipulation: Innocent or guilty, some of us think we're not purposely manipulating others, but at the base of most strategies is a way to get others to do our bidding.

That's a conscious choice: it's about manipulating others.

He succeeds so well in manipulating others because he speaks their language of self-interest.

Ms. Parker's Blanche registers as a lively, self-assured gal, accustomed to manipulating others with her feminine wiles.

Nietzsche was inclined to write as if truth were manufactured rather than discovered, a matter of manipulating others into sharing our beliefs rather than getting those beliefs to "agree with reality".

If so, then even if appeals to evidence are sometimes effective in changing our political values over time, that's only because reasons themselves are aimed at manipulating others into agreeing with us, not uncovering the facts.

Regulators said Beazer had inflated profits in the 2006 fiscal year by falsely recording home financing transactions and manipulating other results.

Such a correction can be done by manipulating other parameters of matching layers (e.g. by changing their thickness).

This experimental design allowed the manipulation of the location of the burrow, and the olfactory information contained within, without manipulating other positional cues.

It's an often subtle and usually unconscious attempt at manipulating other people's perceptions of us.

They are more committed to authentically sharing themselves than they are protecting their image and manipulating other's impressions.