Sentence examples for powers of manipulation from inspiring English sources

Steinberg was able to use his youth, language skills and powers of manipulation to flatter and cajole, eliciting extra food and favors from camp guards, doctors and fellow inmates.

The commissioners cited her "sterling" prison record, her age at the time of the crime — 19 — and Manson's powers of manipulation.

Screen Daily reports that Portman has long been interested in taking on the role of Lady Macbeth, an iconic Shakespearean villain known for her vindictiveness and powers of manipulation.

The secret of the trick was freely shared to help us understand, and guard against, the power of manipulation.

The object of his principal work, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness (1793), was to reject conventional government by demonstrating the corrupting evil and tyranny inherent in its power of manipulation.

To that end he contrives a reunion, using all his novelistic powers of persuasion, manipulation and revision, to draw the deeply fucked-up elder boys and their long-suffering mother back into the fold.

The game features traditional aspects of the platform genre while integrating various powers of time-manipulation.

For evidence of the power of lineup manipulation in basketball, one need look no further than the intriguing circumstances that have forced Serge Ibaka to (rather unsuccessfully) check Shane Battier.

The advent of programmable nucleases such as ZFNs, TALENs and CRISPR/Cas9 has brought the power of genetic manipulation to widely used model systems.

"WE ARE trying to limit the abuse of power, the manipulation of cases and the phenomenon of star magistrates... not mentioning any names," said a Socialist member of the cross-party team behind the wide reforms of Spain's legal system announced this week.

It goes on to look at power as the root of manipulation and obeisance.