Sentence examples similar to manipulative advantage from inspiring English sources

Focus groups that watched the original pilot were left with protective feelings for the two naïve, socially awkward scientists, and they did not like the prospect of a bitter, manipulative woman taking advantage of them.

Taken advantage of by a manipulative uncle whose sexual abuse is mixed up with the language of love, she rebels from her straitjacket life by having anonymous sex with a series of uncaring men.

SMT spinal manipulative therapy (spinal manipulation).

Manipulative people can use this dynamic to their advantage.

They make abusive or manipulative comments, act disrespectfully to others or take advantage of them.

Corruption allows unscrupulous groups to take advantage of paper documentation through fraudulent and manipulative practices.

These fish show clear patterns like that presented by Lack (1947) on the Galápagos finches, but the stickleback have the additional advantage that it is possible to carry out manipulative experiments.

Of course, political consultants could also use this technology to create more manipulative commercials, though Mr. Freedman and Mr. Knapp say they do not hope for partisan advantage from their research.

So this is manipulative publicity tactics, or, perhaps worse, Lohan's colleagues are taking advantage of a sick woman to make dramatic TV disguised as a career comeback.

Or was it manipulative, and is anonymity a veil that she alone gets to drop when it seems to her advantage to do so?

To summarize the adaptive advantages of erect posture (especially the freeing of the forelimbs from locomotion and the subsequent development of manipulative dexterity) and the use of tools and fire.