Sentence examples for usual manipulations from inspiring English sources

Attacked as compromisers by both militant Islamists and "secularists who don't wish to have anything to do with religious language," bridge-building religious thinkers are also discredited, she said, by governments that affirm some version of moderate Islamic principles but go on practicing the usual manipulations of power.

This way we avoided the usual manipulations related to microinjection, and minimized extraneous disturbances to the rat.

Granted, I wanted to help promote the documentary Meth and discuss gay men, drug abuse and my own crystal meth addiction, but the interview had become too real, too well-lit and far too direct for me to escape the truth with my usual manipulations.

The magnitude and phase representation of ρ can, if required, be expressed as real and imaginary parts instead by the usual manipulation of complex numbers.

There's something ultimately a bit totalitarian about it, a technology that's designed to manipulate the viewer much more profoundly than the usual emotional manipulation we're accustomed to something almost propagandistic.

They might as well rename The Block "What the F**k Have You Done With Your Life Recently?" If you weren't excited enough by the fan-zombies and their undead hunger for posh light fixtures, then the auction finale ramped things up still further with the usual reality TV manipulation of tense music, well-placed cliffhanger ad breaks, and crash zooms on people's shocked faces.

Determining the capacity of watermark in a digital image means finding how much information can be hidden in image without perceptible distortion, while maintaining watermark robustness against usual signal processing manipulation and attacks.

For example, analyses by Underwood [ 15] suggested that greater expectations of treatment success might be more likely to lead to improved outcomes for patients receiving exercise combined with spinal manipulation than for those receiving usual care, exercise alone, or manipulation alone.

This provides yet another dimension in amending the properties of nanomaterial besides the usual size and shape manipulation.

Furthermore, the nontransparent material of certain membrane microfilter has resulted in the need to use upright fluorescence microscopy rather than the usual inverted fluorescence microscopy for manipulation of CTC.

Among the young, Dr. Alan Lipkin, an otolaryngologist in Denver, told me, "digital and other manipulation" is the usual cause.