Sentence examples for outright manipulations from inspiring English sources

She will testify today that in her opinion these transactions were outright manipulations of Enron's income statements, booking fictitious income, and hiding actual losses.

And we don't know the long-term impacts of them being subjected to the outright manipulations that take place when a site like Facebook decides to study them like lab rats.

The line between such capriciousness and outright manipulation can be hazy.

Few statistical agency alumni I've spoken with said they worry about outright manipulation of government data.

Over a century and a half later – after decades of advertising, propaganda, and PR, compositing, enhancement and outright manipulation – we are more cautious about seeing photographs as impartial representations of reality.

LOS ANGELES — N.B.A. executives and referees are accused of broad misconduct and outright manipulation of game results — including a highly disputed 2002 playoff series — in the latest court filing by the lawyer for the former referee Tim Donaghy.

As long as magazines have retouched photos — as long as there have been magazines, basically — there has been a debate about the line between improving an image and outright manipulation, especially in women's magazines where models are made to look younger and thinner and any blemishes are removed.

In its securities filing before it went public, Angie's List, in what could have been a direct message to anyone thinking about investing in Yelp, put it this way: "The anonymity of the Internet renders it inherently susceptible to outright manipulation by unscrupulous service providers and unhappy customers, so consumers have limited means for discerning which information they should trust".

Brodie may be a rugged ex-copper, but his instincts are gentle, and he is highly susceptible to pleading or outright manipulation; the structural joke of Sunday's episode is that he is serially seduced, drawn into one mystery after another that he'd rather avoid.

So, at what point does all this experimentation become outright manipulation?

What was once a commonly accepted reality is now subject to alternative interpretations, selective omission, and outright manipulation.