Sentence examples for were manipulated to from inspiring English sources

Laws and legal procedures were manipulated to produce an unjust verdict.

Bank accounts back in Switzerland were manipulated to reimburse the drug dealers.

The parliamentary elections of 1947 were manipulated to produce a parliament favourable to the amendment.

(In Europe, fast days were manipulated to promote more eating of salted fish; dispensations were sold to the rich).

To start, the subjects in the above studies were normal controls whose moods were manipulated to be transiently sad.

Much of the time, dancers held slender and easily bendable poles that quivered tremulously and were manipulated to resemble hoops and wings.

He campaigned to change the markets, which he considered cornerstones of free enterprise that were manipulated to benefit insiders and specialists rather than individual investors.

The attorney general's office is investigating whether records of the 32 schools in Scottsdale were manipulated to let teachers earn bonuses based on enrollments and academic progress.

Matters came to a head following the parliamentary elections of 1957, which allegedly were manipulated to produce a parliament favourable to the reelection of Chamoun.

The pictures were manipulated to remove the background and the owners' clothing (fear not the clothes were just blanked out to create a shot of the head).

There was corruption that led to fiddling with revenue plans, and all sorts of documents were manipulated to undermine this effort.