In literature:
The great difficulty in manipulating platinum is its excessive resistance to heat.
"Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884" by Various
The working of the apparatus, which only requires the manipulation of a single tap, is very simple.
"Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887" by Various
The Adjutant will give an exhibition of paper manipulation, using various Army Forms for this purpose.
"Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Feb. 5, 1919" by Various
See how it manipulates the brute forces of Nature!
"A Walk from London to John O'Groat's" by Elihu Burritt
The tea ceremony presents certain definite ways of manipulating a bowl, a spoon, a napkin, etc.
"Bushido, the Soul of Japan" by Inazo Nitobé
Fortunately the Flying Fish was not very hard aground and a little manipulation got her off into deep water once more.
"The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol" by Howard Payson
As it required neither strength nor practised dexterity of manipulation, the firm intrusted it to assistants.
"Round the Block" by John Bell Bouton
Acie's fondest ambition was to learn to manipulate the scales that told him who had done a good day's work and who had not.
"Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States" by Work Projects Administration
In this play Henry brought his manipulation of crowds to perfection.
"The Story of My Life" by Ellen Terry
Circumstance often played into the hand of an experienced manipulator like himself.
"The Reason Why" by Elinor Glyn
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In poetry:
There is no great, there is no small;
Fate makes a tapestry of all,
each stitch is needed . . .
The gods be praised! that barman chap
Manipulates his frothing tap -
My plea is heeded.
"Dram-Shop Ditty" by Robert W Service
O fashion-bred damsel, with folly a-flutter,
Until you have learned how to manage a broom,
If never you know how to tidy a room,
Manipulate bread or decide about butter,
The duties of matron how dare you assume,
Or ever be bride to a sensible groom?
"Poor Housekeeping" by Hattie Howard
In news:
Search Rank Easy to Manipulate .
Greg Boser manipulates search engines for a living, and there's little the Googles of the world can do about it.
Day-Trading Firm Fined Over Manipulative Dealings.
Sarah Palin Calls Author Joe McGinness a 'Stone Cold Manipulative Liar'.
The Brilliant Genius Bar Manual That Teaches Apple Employees How To Manipulate Customers.
'Timothy Green's' life is more manipulative than odd.
Egypt's Brilliant, Manipulative Muslim Brotherhood.
Fox News's Sean Hannity sniffs ' manipulative ' polling numbers.
Prosecutors in the criminal campaign finance case against former Senator John Edwards described him on Monday as a manipulative politician who refused to let his affair or his mistress' pregnancy sideline his presidential ambitions.
'Extremely Loud' And Incredibly Manipulative .
McMillen, "Using the Augmented Data Manipulator Network in PASM," Computer, vol 14, no.
TONIGHT on The Melting Pot Shpongle a strange hybrid of electronic manipulation and shamanic midget.
For years, Cisco has advanced the idea of a "smart network"--one that intelligently manipulates data rather than acting as a mere conduit.
Ever since the dawn of the first adjustment, chiropractors have sought an objective way to demonstrate the effects of manipulation on the nerves.
You may also purchase (and sell) additional manipulative creations from Content Paradise, a " Poser market" Web site operated by Smith Micro, Poser 's publisher.
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In science:
Vermaseren, “Symbolic manipulation with FORM” (Computer Algebra Nederland, Amsterdam, 1991).
Automated use of DIANA for two-fermion production at colliders
We have presented a framework for relational databases under which positive disjunctive as well as explicit negative disjunctive facts can be represented and manipulated.
A Generalized Disjunctive Paraconsistent Data Model for Negative and Disjunctive Information
The micro-devices require large gradients of magnetic field s for manipulation of cold atoms.
Broken Symmetry and Coherence of Molecular Vibrations in Tunnel Transitions
This paper presents an extension of generalized disjunctive paraconsistent relational data model in which pure disjunctive positive and negative information as well as mixed disjunctive positive and negative information can be represented explicitly and manipulated.
An Extended Generalized Disjunctive Paraconsistent Data Model for Disjunctive Information
Our model is capable of representing and manipulating pure disjunctive positive facts and disjunctive negative facts as well as mixed disjunctive positive and negative facts.
An Extended Generalized Disjunctive Paraconsistent Data Model for Disjunctive Information
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