Sentence examples for manipulative strategies from inspiring English sources

The settlement agreement, filed late Friday afternoon, also says the energy commission found no evidence supporting accusations that Reliant engaged in two other types of manipulative strategies.

At the other end of the spectrum is "Negative Bunny," a genuinely funny, 30-minute video of a stuffed, squeaky-voiced bunny using all kinds of emotionally manipulative strategies to persuade someone to have sex with him.

The manipulative strategies of photocollage and montage had considerable appeal during the interwar period in part because by appropriating "content" from other sources they could deal with complex political or psychological feelings and ideas.

However, knowledge can cut both ways: By better understanding the underlying biological mechanisms of these stimuli, research into oxytocin could be even more useful for protecting consumers from the manipulative strategies of marketing departments.

Two ways of using the lever came to have considerable metaphorical significance: as a weighing machine (the scale), it was associated with balanced moral judgment in ethical philosophy; as a weight-lifting machine (the well sweep), it was associated with manipulative strategies of obtaining leverage in political and military thought.

Voters recognize and despise this manipulative strategy.

The setting includes presentation of emotional stimuli for sadness induction (emotional film clips), manipulative strategy for anger induction (interaction with human confederate) and real-life situation for induction of fear (examination situation).

One should note that RRI in itself is a manipulative strategy because it intends to change the way research is carried out.

Israel's manipulative strategy is part of a public relations campaign that is both cynical and hypocritical.

Now – and in particular, in the United States since the November 8 elections – is the time to turn autocrats' misinformation and manipulative strategy of "protest potential" on its head and resist nondemocratic pushback with genuine nonviolent mobilization of millions.

In the case of immuno-manipulative strategies, when pro-inflammatory toxins are involved, virulence is likely to become decoupled from overall bacterial density, and be largely driven by the provocative actions of the toxin-producing lineage (Brown et al. 2008).