Manipulation
manipulation (noun) -
a. Control an event for personal gain
b. Force or persuade people to do what you want for personal gain
market manipulation
could be considered market manipulation
engage in market manipulation
price manipulation
share price manipulation
stock manipulation
insider-dealing and market manipulation
market manipulation, insider dealing, and investment fraud
financial fraud, market manipulation and insider dealing
instruments of manipulation
tears as instruments of manipulation
tales of manipulation
vulnerable to manipulation
price manipulation and speculation
learned manipulation from the cradle
intervention in agricultural markets through price manipulation
political manipulation
prevent political manipulation
consent is just the product of the exercise of power whether exercised through force or manipulation in the present or past
Example sentences:
* "The most frequent messages given to women are that tears are a sign of weakness, or instruments of manipulation."
* "The same is true of the control of statistics through manipulation and massage, whether of GDP, unemployment or body counts."
* "God, the whole family seemed to have learned manipulation from the cradle."
* "To this end it announced that the electoral commission was to be reconstituted in order to free it from political influence and manipulation."
* The letters received from victims often ramble on and they express themselve poorly and that is indicative of a lack of education which made the victims vulnerable to manipulation in the first place.
* "Britain has been notoriously ineffective in dealing with offences like financial fraud, market manipulation and insider dealing."
* "It is widely accepted that City regulation is too fragmented to meet the challenges of insider-dealing and market manipulation."
* "According to securities trading law it is an offence to engage in market manipulation."
* "Market manipulation, including energy taxes and trading in" permits to pollute should be used to limit the environmentally damaging consequences of economic growth."
* "The three main problems that affect investors' confidence in the stock market are market manipulation, insider dealing, and investment fraud, all of which are supposed to be eliminated or at least limited under the investor protection rules of the Financial Services Act."
* "Some public figures are very open to manipulation and corruption (hyping, payola, and so on)."
* "Trading in stock options and index futures was suspended following a stock market and was resumed later under new regulations drawn up by the capital markets regulator to prevent price manipulation and speculation."
* "Most intervention in agricultural markets is through price manipulation."
* "The tales of manipulation, creative accountancy and downright dishonesty starring some of these wayward entrepreneurs are numerous and well documented."
* "Establish an independent committee to advise on the objective presentation of health statistics and prevent their political manipulation."
* What she did could be considered market manipulation.
* "Power cannot be consensual because, where people's interests diverge, consent is the product of the exercise of power, whether exercised through force or manipulation in the present or past."
* "It is indisputable that such obstacles as poor financing and staffing, and sustained police opposition have made them practically unworkable: typically the pressure of police unions and the operation of political manipulation has resulted in these Boards becoming inoperative edifices to the democratic principle, or at best fairly toothless bureaucracies."
* To counter the new industrial strategy, colonial initiatives, and tariff manipulation of France and England, the Dutch strove, with some success, to restrict the flow of French and English products to markets they controlled, such as the Baltic, dealing considerable damage in particular to French trade and industry."
* "Journalists from the national television station complained of biased reporting and manipulation of broadcasting schedules in favour of one of the political parties."
* "To test whether crest size could be favoured by male and female mating preferences, we performed two manipulation experiments using realistic models made from mounted skins of three male and three female crested turkeys of average appearance."
