Sentence examples for overt manipulation from inspiring English sources

The institute, which had an observer mission in Ukraine, cited "systematic intimidation, overt manipulation and blatant fraud" that were "designed to achieve a specific outcome irrespective of the will of the people".

Decomposition also affords an advantage with respect to bias or overt manipulation.

Consequently, recent research has attempted to identify physiological indices of cognitive functioning that are less susceptible to overt manipulation.

One of the many defining characteristics of a bad movie is an overt manipulation of emotion.

Even though there have been scandalous elections in 2000 and 2004 involving the overt manipulation of the Electoral College by local and state election officials and the Supreme Court, there has been virtually no serious discussion of amending the constitution to abolish the archaic and elitist institution underscoring the regression of the progressive movement in the USA since the 1960s.

However, more SELANA anastomoses (22 of the 28) than ELANA anastomoses (20 of 28) could be created without overt manipulation of surrounding structures.

But sometimes his overt manipulations give reality a special, almost baroque, if not religious, intensity, making us doubly aware of the splendor and poignancy of life's moments as they move toward their inevitable conclusion.

The BoJ knows that overt currency manipulation is frowned upon as a "beggar-thy-neighbour" policy.

While the Bush administration faced criticism for overt political manipulation in not permitting photos of flag-draped coffins, the issue is more emotional on the battlefield: local military commanders worry about security in publishing images of the American dead as well as an affront to the dignity of fallen comrades.

As in previous work (see Elliot and colleagues), the significance of the overt colour manipulation that took place was undetected by participants.

Given this overt colour manipulation and in line with previous research we assessed, through a verbal funnelling task, the subjects' awareness of the colour manipulation and the purpose of the experiment.