'manipulative strategy' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to a plan to influence someone's behavior indirectly. For example, "The politician used a manipulative strategy to gain votes in the election."
Voters recognize and despise this manipulative strategy.
One should note that RRI in itself is a manipulative strategy because it intends to change the way research is carried out.
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).
Israel's manipulative strategy is part of a public relations campaign that is both cynical and hypocritical.
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.
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).
It says Gaunt sought to exploit the Plebgate incident as part of a manipulative media strategy.
Federal regulators also said that they would investigate whether other energy-trading companies including Duke Energy and Dynegy used the manipulative trading strategies described by lawyers for Enron in the documents released on Monday.
From that angle we can analyze the manipulative formal strategies, see through the myth-making and decipher hidden ideological codes, yet still be seduced by, for example, the image of a pouty young Tallulah Bankhead sitting, chin in hand, at a glassy black bar in a duskily luminous picture by Cecil Beaton.
