Sentences with phrase «good at manipulation»

They are especially good at manipulation when the adults in their lives don't fully understand the disorder.

One thing he shows is how the caller, played by Pat Healy, is good at manipulation.

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David Gould, creative services director at online marketing firm Vertical Measures, puts it well: «For users, this reinforces the idea that the result is reputable: this link isn't just the result of robotic SEO manipulation, but rather it's from a human being who we can learn more about.»

Discussions by the US of alleged currency manipulation by China are in the economic realm what discussions of changing the «One China» policy are in the geopolitical realm — unconstructive at best and possibly dangerous.

Liturgists can generate many powerful experiences, but when experience is the aim, this becomes cheap theater at best and manipulation at worst.

To the contrary, every work of so - called love done in order to merit God's favor would in fact be no love at all, but merely a manipulation of another toward one's own supposed good.

The DSS, therefore, frowns at the tendency some ethnic chauvinists easily and cheaply resort to hate speeches, misinformation and total manipulation of information especially on the social media simply to fan the embers of discord and subvert the efforts of government in implementing its policies for the good of everyone.

But in a statement from the Nigerian Wailers signed by its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Mr Fasipe Oluyemi, the group has called on the good people of Nigeria to come out en mass for a protest (#OccupyCBN) to stop this impunity of the Fraudulent Forex Trading, Round Tripping and racketeering going on in the Central Bank of Nigeria aided by its Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele and bring to an end the Manipulation of Forex, illegally funding Federal Government budget, short - changing the Money Deposit Bank's reserve ratio at the expense of the Masses as the abuse of internal process.

On the one hand, emotional manipulation has always been at the heart of our cultural artefacts; in fact, we have always lauded the best artists, writers, film - makers, composers and the like for their seamless skills in moving us and enlarging our horizons.

At the end of July, for instance, Trump trailed by less than 1 % of the popular vote — well within the realm of the search engine manipulation effect (although the Electoral College does complicate the discussion somewhat).

Researchers have touted nanotechnology — an array of techniques that allow the manipulation of matter at the atomic scale — as the next big thing, producing everything from better materials to tiny robots.

Working from prior agreements Frenemies at best, U.S. and Chinese officials both say climate change is a bright spot in an alliance divided over currency manipulation, cyberattacks and the South China Sea.

«Given the neglect, distrust, denial and manipulation of evidence today, it is more important than ever that reporters have the best available scientific evidence — provided with clarity and context — to inform the public about issues so very relevant to their lives,» said Rush Holt, chief executive officer at AAAS.

«Our results help us to better understand the manipulation of chemicals at the nano level and pave the way for creating frictionless coatings,» write the researchers.

Research in the Immunology, Microenvironment and Metastasis program is aimed at 1) merging basic mechanistic understanding of multidisciplinary pathways of host - tumor interactions and metastatic dissemination with novel translational opportunities for diseases diagnosis and immunotherapy, as well as 2) investigating mechanisms regulating immune responses in cancer and their potential therapeutic manipulation.

This unique combination enables the handling of liquid volumes at the femtoliter scale (10 — 15 l), as well as force controlled manipulations of microscopic objects.

Hormonal manipulation isn't an option at this time, so good nutrition and exercise become particularly important factors at this stage.

What follows is a campaign of graft, bribery and carefully orchestrated manipulation that is ethically dubious at best, impeachable at worst.

It's a gradual, insidious mutation, and remarkable, too, in predicting the worlds that we are on the verge at that point of experiencing as reality (Peter Jackson's Rings Trilogy doesn't happen in 1989 — or 1994), as well as giving fair warning that the tactility of our memories is subject to invasive mutilation and manipulation.

This movie looks at the uglier side of humanity, the bad choices, the outbursts, the manipulation and the cruelty that even people with the best of intentions can exhibit.

Gooding is good, and Harris is fantastic, and when you see the real Radio and Coach Jones at the end of the movie, it is a touching moment that makes all of the story manipulations worthwhile.

It sets teachers up in a social contract of manipulation — a game that the students are quite good at.

Hence, changing intakes might be a sign that the school is actually performing better, or at least has improved its reputation, and does not necessarily indicate manipulation.

And parents don't know that our district will be the model for all others — because we do it best — we will collect SSP data in the form of social and emotional surveys, we will change our curriculum to socially engineer our children with social and emotional instruction without parents suspecting a thing, we will assess and survey up the wazoo about academics, school climate, cyberbullying, etc. while willing parents stand by, we will enhance our teacher evaluation program and refine it into a well - oiled teacher manipulation machine, and since our kids would do well no matter what because we have uber - involved parents, it will look like everything the Administrators are doing at the State's recommendation causes the success.

Though Weiss apparently believes she and the U.S. Department of Education (USED) fostered «competition,» her essay essentially admits to remarkable amounts of manipulation of states, as well as non-transparency, at the hands of a puppeteer federal government:

Guess Porsche's PR department is much better at media manipulation.

I've learned that if your book cover is (say) 6 ″ x9 ″, you'll do well to purchase the image in 9 ″ x12 ″ size, which allows for judicious manipulation without running out of image at the edges.

Singularity, the only game to have a TMD — or Time Manipulation Device for those of you that haven't been following its evolution from one amazing power to the other, and other and oth... well, it can be quite handy in a tight situation, let's just leave it at that — is just around the corner and as it prepares itself for launch.

A work born from meticulous control and manipulation is at best a mere confession of the artist.

Reinhold Misselbeck, the director of the department of photography and video at Museum Ludwig, who was curator of the current show, wrote of Mr. Hockney: «He is well aware the media, like photography, video and film, are losing the documentary quality hitherto attributed to them because of digital manipulation and that they are converging more with painting in their relation to reality.»

Another Optical Art master drawing attention at Vertu Fine Art is Richard Anuszkiewicz — best known for his calculated color manipulations that result in marvelous capture and release of illumination.

McKenzie sometimes plays with the idea of not documenting work as does Tino Sehgal... as well both artist practice a similar project inspired by the Situationist and other avant - garde groups such as the Fluxus whose program works at the manipulation of existential psychic phenomenon — ambiance and mood.

Though the models they used were imperfect, and incapable of factoring in all potential influences, «the current models do suggest some grave consequences, and mankind would do well to proceed with caution where possible manipulation of the world's climate is at stake.»

The security issues at stake are today not even well defined or fully explored but key questions include: Does the United States consider • deliberate, unilateral and intentional manipulation of the climate a threat to the global commons, and if so, how are U.S. greenhouse gas emissions characterized?

Think of it as an epidemiological assessment, the better to determine those populations at risk of succumbing to such malfeasant manipulation.

UnReal Climate is a heavily censored blog run by the Fiddlestick Team who are incapable of leaving their barricade to defend the abject nonsense they regularly publish on their blog and also the papers they have produced in the past, which have been shown to be at best incomptence and at worst data manipulation.

The first of the review's terms of reference is limited to: ``... manipulation or suppression of data which is at odds with acceptable scientific practice...» The term «acceptable» is not defined and might better be replaced with «objective».

So the study / models shown here may well be approximately correct, but at least there was no attempt at manipulation of original data, or of hiding the original data and its method of interpretation.

So, it is patently obvious what is going on and now we've seen so many well substantiated incidents of data manipulation that unless or until you hand over the raw data to the public or at least some body that if anything is sceptical about warming, then no one will ever believe these non-science records again.

I spot checked one month of the year at random, February, and found it cooled by 0.7 F between the observer's typed report in 1950 and BEST's manipulation at the present time.

At Law21, Jordan Furlong suspects some large firms of manipulation of «Best Employers to Work For» lists as they seek an edge in misleading to their doom hiring the most promising young lawyers.

The price of that strategy may, inevitably, be data manipulation, beyond even the best intentions or efforts at control.

At the same time, however, I've been very concerned about how some advocates of SEL have been promoting it as the cure - all for everything that ails schools and society (see The Best Articles About The Study Showing Social Emotional Learning Isn't Enough and my Washington Post column, The manipulation of Social Emotional Learning).

Basically he says that threats, punishments as well as praise - also known as positive reinforcement parenting - are basically tools of manipulation aimed at controlling our kids with a weapon of love: Meaning if you behave I will show you love and if you don't I will not show you love.

At the level of the classroom unit, social competence training might be helpful, first, to interrupt negative group dynamic processes in the classroom and school environment and second, to train students to better cope with physical and verbal attacks or social manipulation.