6 sentences with 'manipulating'
Example sentences and phrases with the word manipulating and other words derived from it.
• « Octavian was 33 years old. As his great-uncle had done before him, Octavian began the process of manipulating the institutions of the Republic to transform it into something else entirely: an empire. »
• « First, the janissaries slowly went from being elite soldiers and bureaucrats to parasites, living in luxurious "barracks" in Constantinople, manipulating weak sultans and spending more time enriching themselves in trade than serving the state. »
• « Hernán Cortés proved brilliant at manipulating the native groups he encountered in Mexico, where he arrived in 1519 with 450 Spanish troops and 15 horses. There, a powerful empire under the Aztecs had recently taken control of a large tract of territory. »
• « Bismarck became very adept at manipulating nationalist passions to inflame popular support for the Prussian wars, but he was personally deeply sceptical about the "national spirit" that animated the need for unification. »
• « Deftly manipulating the shoots with their "thumbs", pandas eat about 15 kilos of bamboo a day. On this monotonous diet they weigh up to 115 kilos. »