Sentence examples for manipulating rather than from inspiring English sources

They can seem to take over, manipulating rather than serving their creators.

When others repeatedly faulted her for this philosophy of manipulating rather than refashioning the economics of sex and gender relations, Brown's response was simple and direct: "I deal in reality".

One can behave in respectful ways, however, without having respect for the object, as when a teen who disdains adults behaves respectfully toward her friend's parents in a scheme to get the car, manipulating rather than respecting them.

Another American official said he gave the general top marks for infiltrating Jemaah Islamiyah but wondered whether he wanted to "manipulate" rather than "crush" the group.

It's meant to manipulate rather than enlighten and inform...

Jack's father, he indicates, was a bully, with a proclivity "to exploit and manipulate rather than do what was right".

Jack's father, he indicates, was a bully, with a proclivity "to exploit and manipulate rather than do what was right". His mother was a nasty drunk, who gave "the finger" to anyone who crossed her.

The singer explained of the song's lyrics, "I really like the idea of the male voice being quite vulnerable, of it being taken and slightly manipulated, rather than there being always this heavy machismo thing that just bores everybody".

Given that the very element of the campaign being subjected to crowdsourced photo analysis might just be a means of manipulating the public through imagery, shouldn't we voters respond by trying not to be manipulated, rather than using the occasion to try to manipulate someone else? Do you have information you want to share with HuffPost?

When aiming to change model dynamical response, parameters of various network modules should be manipulated rather than those within the same module.

It now appears that a different programme may be equally important: to discover the ways that nature allows, and prevents, information to be expressed and manipulated, rather than particles to move» (Steane 1998).