The political nature of the mergers is also shown in the manipulation of the boundaries, which are the crudest act of boundary rigging since Joh Bjelke-Petersen's notorious Queensland gerrymander of the 1970s.
Lord Scott said: "Gerrymandering - the manipulation of constituency boundaries for party political advantage - is a clear form of political corruption".
In addition, unionists ensured their political hold over Northern Ireland through the manipulation of electoral boundaries, which minimized the representation of Roman Catholics.
District judges have struck a blow against the practice of gerrymandering – the deliberate manipulation of voting boundaries to favour one party over another – in a ruling that could reverberate across the US.
Bale points out that Osborne is an avid student of both contemporary American politics, where the manipulation of constituency boundaries for party advantage is taken for granted, and of 19th-century British politics, when exactly who was able to vote was perhaps the most crucial and closely fought issue.
The experimental manipulation of spatial boundaries using microfabrication methods has revealed the underlying physical processes directing cytoskeleton self-organization.
The current status of "grain boundary engineering" is overviewed, i.e. the deliberate manipulation of grain boundary crystallography in polycrystals in order to produce a material containing grain boundaries which have superior properties compared to average boundaries.
High frequency large displacement manipulation of the turbulent boundary layer offers a promising route to influence the frictional drag and hence minimize fuel consumption in modern aviation.
Manipulation of the outer shape boundaries appears to be essential to bundle the applied loads to the central zone where failure is intended to be built up.
Rock's history is tied up with technological shifts in the storage, retrieval, and transmission of sounds: multitrack tape recording made possible an experimental composition process that turned the recording studio into an artist's studio; digital recording made possible a manipulation of sound that shifted the boundaries between music and noise.
Manipulation of the grain and phase boundaries is a key issue in determining the material properties.
