He felt like they felt manipulated.

And we manipulated how much money we gave them.

And when I say manipulated, I'm talking about in a Darwinian sense, right?

But you know, sort of our brains have been manipulated we're all addicts.

Next I'm going to show you what happened when we experimentally manipulated classrooms.

I worry because all around me, even within my extended family, I see religion being manipulated.

We believe that the review of mandates that is called for could be manipulated for political purposes.

One expert considered that the term official duty in the subparagraph could be manipulated by offenders and required further explanation.

Republicans created the task force after learning that analysts had raised concerns that intelligence about the Islamic State was being manipulated.

However, the real problem with electronic signatures was that, without certain safeguards, they could be manipulated more easily than handwritten signatures.

We know that what's going on between the bee and that flower is that bee has been cleverly manipulated by that flower.

Palestinian terrorist organizations have time and time again exploited Israeli goodwill gestures and manipulated social realities to perpetuate terror attacks against Israelis.

Giambattista della Porta, a Neapolitan scholar in the 16th century, examined and studied the natural world and saw how it could be manipulated.

The investigation has also uncovered more specific information about the manner in which the Syrian security apparatus controlled and manipulated the security situation in Lebanon.

Unfairly or partially manipulated public opinion poll results released prior to an election have often affected the choices of voters, thus jeopardizing a fair election.

Digital mammography is still an X ray of the breast, but the images can be stored and manipulated digitally, just like we can with a digital camera.

Mr. Cumberbatch Miguén (Cuba) said that the 2005 Summit Outcome had been manipulated and adopted by a small group of countries imposing authoritarian measures on the majority.

All these little tricks are just that tricks. But, because they are tricks that you play on yourself, they can make you feel in control rather than manipulated.

Without them, political talks will continue to be frustrated by developments in the field, by manipulated insecurity and by violence that undermines the credibility of the negotiating parties.

The shariah courts oppose the Transitional Federal Government and the new constitution, as they believe that it is being supported and manipulated by foreign countries that they consider infidels .

Two of the characters, Jabbar, the one with the muscles, and Noora, the one that can use light, are actually wearing the cookie cutter fascist gray uniform because they're being manipulated.

Suggest new habits to replace old ones. Let people see how they are being manipulated already by advertising, product formulations, and the media to buy more, consume more, and want more.

From the middle of 2014 to the middle of 2015, the United States Central Command's most senior intelligence leaders manipulated the command's intelligence products to downplay the threat from ISIS in Iraq.

Even though the Treaty was obsolescent and was cynically manipulated, no attempt should be made to alter it in such a way as to limit or ban the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

That is when a seed is manipulated in a laboratory to do something not intended by nature like taking the DNA of a fish and putting it into the DNA of a tomato. Yuck.

The first to suffer from this situation are young people and children, who are manipulated, recruited and pressed into service by armed groups to satisfy various needs of a military, logistical or sexual nature.

Because he said to me that he felt like the geese and he proved this actually, not just a conceit, he proved this the geese felt manipulated when they were imprisoned in their little paddocks.

Meanwhile, in Syria, the people rose up, were fired upon, took up arms, were manipulated, and began a cycle of sectarian killing and revenge that can only fracture them further. Neither Iran nor Turkey has reached that point.

Preliminary investigation leads to a conclusion that Mr. Hussam is being manipulated by the Syrian authorities, raising serious questions about whether the Syrian Judicial Commission is committed to conducting an independent, transparent and professional investigation into the crime.

So we know that our beliefs and expectations can be manipulated, which is why we do trials where we control against a placebo where one half of the people get the real treatment and the other half get placebo.

And you could see how my poor, manipulated sister faced conflict, as her little brain attempted to devote resources to feeling the pain and suffering and surprise she just experienced, or contemplating her new found identity as a unicorn.

Too often in politically connected cases, suspicions and charges of wrongdoing are not pursued to an unambiguous conclusion. This is understandable the communist justice system was manipulated to serve the regime, and thousands of judges cannot be replaced overnight.

As Middle East analyst Murtaza Hussain recently observed Syria and Iraq, formerly unified Arab states formed after the defeat of their former Ottoman rulers, exist today only in name. What will emerge could be a fragmented, easily manipulated region.

Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, talks about his quest to make all knowledge computational able to be searched, processed and manipulated. His new search engine, Wolfram Alpha, has no lesser goal than to model and explain the physics underlying the universe.

And I'm going to take you to a farm right now, because I used this idea to develop my understanding of the food system and what I learned, in fact, is that we are all, now, being manipulated by corn.

And he controls them from the top down whereas when they work for the other side, eventually, when they find out this is the wrong person, they've been manipulated, they actually, each one has a different, colorful kind of dress.

Later, new classical economists like Robert Lucas and Thomas Sargent demonstrated that once people understand that inflation is being manipulated to generate market optimism, the monetary authorities actions lose their impact. The result is higher prices and no job creation.

While no leniency should be shown for crimes perpetrated on innocent children, we need to see in perspective the fact that many children responsible for reprehensible crimes have often been manipulated by unscrupulous adults to take part in armed conflicts.

The first step would be to tap into the global brain trust, to build an environment where raw data could be stored, and where it could be accessed and manipulated, where new algorithms could be developed and old algorithms made more efficient.

In their defense, central banks make the unsubstantiated claim that things would have been much worse had they not pursued QE. But, with now frothy manipulated asset markets posing new risks of financial instability, the jury is out on that point as well.

We fully share the valid concern that the focus of the international community on Gaza withdrawal has been manipulated and exploited by the Israeli regime in order to complete its colonization and de facto annexation of huge areas of the West Bank.

Other criteria besides currency market intervention are used to ascertain whether a currency is deliberately undervalued or, in the words of the International Monetary Fund's Articles of Agreement, manipulated for unfair competitive advantage. One criterion is an inappropriately large trade or current account surplus.

6.1 By submission of 28 June 2004, the State party recalls that the Election Act is designed to ensure that public elections are fairer by preventing them from being adversely affected by biased or manipulated public opinion polls, thereby influencing voters with incorrect information.

Today, the very human rights that were guaranteed by the constitution are being violated, with a politicized judiciary routinely abused and manipulated in order to justify the prime minister s actions. Instead of keeping the Maliki government in check, the courts facilitate its quest for ever greater power.

Yes, Ukraine has Ukrainian speakers and it has Russian speakers yes, it has Orthodox and Catholics. But those divisions were manipulated with the same sort of cynicism that Slobodan Milosevic and Franjo Tudjman used to pit Serbs, Croats, and Bosnian against each other in the former Yugoslavia.