When I was looking for feedback, the energy behind my tweets and posts was needy and manipulative.
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But if officials came to depend on him, they also learnt that he could be devious, ruthless and manipulative.
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However, in its place, a new and manipulative science of predictability risks becoming even more subtly intrusive than advertising was.
But naked short-sellers don't borrow the shares, and manipulative naked short-sellers use the tactic to drive a stock into the ground.
In business circles he is viewed as cynical, eccentric, tactical, and manipulative.
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Particularly worrisome is the Ortega government's selective and manipulative use of "international observers" in a transparent attempt to obscure the rigged character of the election.
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But in order to make money out of those users and satisfy the denizens of Wall Street, it has to become ever more intrusive and manipulative.
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Mr Putin's admirers in the West hope that he will also go after Boris Berezovsky, a clever and manipulative Kremlin insider with interests in oil, aluminium and the media.
Such adherents to Shariah have contributed materially to our present fix with their "sensitivity training" of government personnel and their exclusive and manipulative facilitation of official "Muslim outreach" programs.
She has shown herself to be over the years lacking in frankness and veracity with the media and manipulative and selective in what she has chosen to reveal about herself.
He said Petrino also "engaged in a pattern of misleading and manipulative behavior designed to deceive me and members of the athletics staff both before and after the accident, " Long said.
Former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigator Gary Aguirre is slated to testify at a hearing Wednesday as the Senate Judiciary Committee takes up the issue of hedge funds and manipulative short-selling.
Ieng Sary was known as a strong believer in the Khmer Rouge's extremist revolutionary ideas, and was often described as a duplicitous and manipulative man, the BBC's South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head reports.
One of the things the Internet has revealed to us as it has spread through our culture is just how uncivilized, narcissistic, and manipulative we, in general, can be when it comes to our relationships.
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Furthermore, it can be disingenuous and manipulative.
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In a surprisingly sunny suburb of Manchester, two motherless little boys one pious and generous (Alex Etel), the other enterprising and manipulative (Lewis McGibbon) gain control of a Nike bag filled with cash after thieves throw it off a moving train.
Outlining the case, Riel Karmy-Jones, prosecuting, told the jury the defendant was a respected coach who had recruited the youngsters to the athletics club and had been "manipulative and controlling".
"They described Tamerlan as very controlling and very manipulative of their friend, " Sullivan said.
His brand of raw rhetoric on the hustings and his manipulative skills should thrive in these conditions.
It was pointed out at the time that this is not acceptable for a public figure and is manipulative female behavior.
Primal and unashamedly manipulative, cliffhangers are the signature gambit of serial storytelling.
But his people, and especially the young, suffer the same ill-defined anguish at having long been humiliated by an unresponsive, unaccountable and cynically manipulative regime.
Which takes us back to the absolute insanity of Oklahoma CAIR and its manipulative executive director, Muneer Awad, who has the temerity to maintain that a ban on sharia law in the US court system is racist, that it isolates and vilifies Islam.
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Shuttling between the opposing camps is Kate Sullivan, a young lawyer with a devious mind and good legs: she represents the wire-and-cable company, but she and Larry are manipulative soul mates, and in the course of negotiations their enthusiastic gamesmanship evolves into a weird kind of courtship.
Clearing up and killing off this uncharted territory, controlled by manipulative and self-serving bureaucrats, is the sole reason why Koizumi came into office.
Respondents to the survey said over-exposure to negative media and advertising portrayals of Africa and developing countries in other parts of the world was "depressing, manipulative and hopeless".
U.S. officials draw a distinction between cyber espionage and cyberattacks, which have a destructive or manipulative purpose and could be considered an act of war.
By the time she produced a son, in 1785, she was beyond rescue, hated at court and despised outside it for being manipulative, frivolous and for shamelessly enriching the families of her female lovers.
He described her as a capable, manipulative and intelligent woman who acted of her own free will.
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