"Political manipulation" refers to the act of influencing people or events in politics for personal gain. It involves using strategies and tactics, often deceptive or dishonest, to control or sway public opinion, policies, or power for one's own benefit.
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For instance, the federal legislature has, by these amendments entrenched extensive electoral reforms, including financial and administrative autonomy for INEC as well as freeing the electoral umpire
from political manipulations.
Soyinka, at a press conference in Lagos on April 28, said Buhari's failure to publicly disclose his state of health had increased
political manipulations in the country.
Nor would a carbon tax create a new multibillion - dollar global commodity whose value would depend
on political manipulation.
Will the corporate sector, motivated by rising security and compliance issues, joined by private citizens aghast at how Facebook has been
fostering political manipulation mete out more immediate sanctions, by boycotting the social media giant en masse?
This is
just political manipulation of students» educational outcomes which has nothing at all to do with the real purpose of education.
Lies are always corrosive, whither in public or private life, but the use of outright falsehood for
political manipulation really wasn't viable until media outlets like Fox arrived to provide fact free opinion sources disguised as news.
Following the news of Facebook's data breach that
allowed political manipulation of the 2016 election, the social media giant is facing a steady stream of criticism from a variety of sources.
«As the only engineer in the U.S. Senate,» Sununu said, «I've been proud to protect funding for the National Science Foundation
from political manipulation and fully support funding for adult and amniotic stem cell research — which has already resulted in a number of treatments that have proven to be successful in patient trials.»
Like stage magicians, such economists distract their audience's attention from the topic at hand in this case, the tendency for privatizations to turn control over to financial managers and foreign owners to somewhere that they can distract the audience's attention from the «invisible hand» of corruption and
political manipulation.
These developments include major data privacy breaches such as the Equifax leak, the troubling revelations about the use of personal data assembled by Facebook for marketing and
political manipulation, and the introduction of the European Union's General Data Privacy Regulations, which establish new facts on the ground regarding compliance for globally active companies.
While Reilly is adept at fingering
the political manipulation of the AIDS crisis by gay advocates, he ignores the real opening of love between church folk and gay people, often family and friends, that the epidemic forced.
Their ideas of objective scholarship have been overtaken by forms of engaged or committed scholarship which they see as a mixture of radical subjectivism and
political manipulation.
The political manipulation of Christianity was the design behind the declaration of the National Party's first prime minister, D. F. Malan, that the church's «special calling» was to «guard the [Afrikaner] national interest,» and it is the design behind the recent call of South African Communist Party leader Joe Slovo for «every good believer to become a witness for liberation.»
But this approach has brought its own problems, tending as it does to reduce religion to an instrument of social control and
political manipulation.
That would be quite different from
the political manipulation of economic discontent practiced by today's Russian nationalists.
And loneliness makes us prey to a thousand varieties of
political manipulation.
«It's too limited in scope and too subject to
political manipulation to be effective.»
Jordan expressed concern that the new charter conflict committee could be open to
political manipulation.
«The more desperate Rob Astorino gets, the more bizarre
his political manipulations become.
That total media /
political manipulation was a farce and hurt the Democrats.
Mandelson, a Labour peer known as the Prince of Darkness for his mastery of the shadowy arts of
political manipulation, has been lobbying influential Manchester figures about taking over the top job at the University of Manchester this summer, the Guardian understands.
Pointing to Health Republic as a cautionary tale, insurance officials charge that the prior approval process is arbitrary, subject to
political manipulation, and unnecessary in the state's competitive insurance market.
«The more desperate Rob Astorino gets, the more bizarre
his political manipulations become,» Wing said.
Abe claimed in a letter he wrote to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, that the public hearing was part of
the political manipulation of the Governor Nyesom Wike - led Peoples Democratic Party's government in Rivers State.
To its credit, this visibly theatrical opening draws attention to themes including conversation and compromise, ideals and art, themes reinforced and complicated in the film's focus on
the political manipulations Lincoln managed in order to ensure that the 13th Amendment was passed by the divided House of Representatives before the end of the war (it has been passed by the Senate before this film begins, in April 1864).
The Candidate sends up
the political manipulation of image and message in an era long before the birth of cable news.
This commercial strategy, geared toward adolescents of all ages, resembles the Democratic party's
political manipulation of black Americans, targeting that audience through its insecurities about heritage, social prestige, and empowerment.
Litigation, Flores shows, is time - consuming, costly, subject to
political manipulation, and prone to prompting unpredictable policy reforms that even the plaintiffs may not wish for.
But varying levels of test refusals also skew the ability to compare schools, districts, states or anything else in a landscape of controversy and
political manipulation.