Influence unfairly

Usage examples of manipulate.

Too late, his mind gave him insight: he saw with disappointment that he had been manipulated to the very move his First Adviser had desired.

Impersonation has been at the heart of many detective stories, but it has seldom carried the emotional charge of Brat Farrar, and our sympathies are never in a mere puzzle so skilfully and so surprisingly manipulated.

With his support Sir Godber could manipulate the College finances as he pleased, and the Dean cursed the Bursar viciously as he climbed the stairs to his room.

That had to wait for genetic engineering to manipulate cells, incorporating magnetite particles into a ferro-vesicle cell model.

Then, by delicately manipulating the variable condensers and inductances of, his sensitive shunting relay circuits, he slowly shifted that frightful rod of energy from frequency to frequency, staring into the brilliant blank-ness of his micrometer screen as he did so.

Kinnison began deftly to manipulate the micrometric vernier of his dials.

I will not let that misbegotten old man use Chy an Cleth to manipulate me into a second marriage.

He was able to manipulate a cilia board well enough to reproduce a few basic commands, and when Voth absentmindedly pressed a limb against his skin, he was often able to recognize some of the simpler morphemes, like numbers.

And in the foremost row, at the extreme right, sat the driver, who manipulated the multiped conveyance by means of two vertical levers, on either side of his saddle.

With the appearance of the first dish upon the table that night the boy was very frankly nonplussed at the array of implements upon each side of his plate, placed there for him to manipulate.

Added to that complicated set of circumstances was the fact that Jonathan was overbearing, arrogant, and much too sure of his ability to manipulate her for Regina to feel comfortable with the relationship.

The sphere of Prime, the magick of manipulating the power that underlay all magick, to bind Quintessence to the link and make it all permanent.

Its underside glowed with reactive paint, and I could see the metal cage on top where the operator would guide the AI deck through manipulating the dangling tentacles of crabhooks to pick up five racks at a time and transport them to the staging area.

His recumbent ear, which seems to be deaf to everyday sounds, hears pointers with the help of which the future can be manipulated.

But it was not a sign as bad as it might have been: the thought ports in his armor were evidently not allowing the noetic reader to redact or to manipulate his nervous system.