Sentence examples for were manipulated into from inspiring English sources

The upshot, Farber suggested, was that moviegoers were manipulated into seeing the film.

They were manipulated into thinking that destroying and occupying Iraq was necessary for the security of the United States.

The interior ministry said in a statement on Sunday that several minors "who were manipulated into participating in riots and acts of vandalism" had been arrested the previous day.

Africa was not only conquered, but in conquest, through the imposition of new religions and the misunderstanding of the aims of education, and later on through advertising, Africans were manipulated into thinking that their own heritage is backward: primitive, pagan, heathen, barbaric.

For these 500-plus pages do not bear out what the defamatory label insinuated: that some of the greatest in the world of arts and letters were varlets and curs who sold out to the C.I.A. or were manipulated into servitude by the minions of American imperialism.

"The victims of A&O's scam were looking for a conservative investment, and they were manipulated into believing A&O was a safe, secure, no-risk investment," Neil H. MacBride, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, said in a statement.

Or they may have been manipulated into early bloom.

Where beauty didn't exist in any obvious way, it was manipulated into being.

The main theater can be manipulated into eight different configurations, seating from 70 to 150 people.

Donziger had worried that Yánez could be manipulated into making a corrupt ruling.

The prisoners came to feel that they had been manipulated into pursuing a violent path.