The Palestinians have for too long allowed themselves to be cynically manipulated by their leadership.

He's not always unfunny, but you feel like you're listening to someone cynically manipulating you.

There is widespread famine, which has been cynically manipulated by the government so that opposition strongholds suffer the most.

Opec is often portrayed in the West as a greedy and untrustworthy cartel, cynically manipulating the price of oil.

To many secular and communist forces, Zia cynically manipulated Islam for the survival of his own regime.

America was now following in the footsteps of the Russians and the British, who had cynically manipulated events in Iran for their own gain.

They cynically manipulated that underlying sense of fear and loathing that holds back these working class redoubts from moving on with the rest of society.

Do you feel privileged to have had your own situation cynically manipulated by others, including the time and manner of your departure from your original life?

His case, simply put, is that the intervention was a necessary response to hedge funds that were cynically manipulating Hong Kong's currency and stock markets.

Mr Justice Morris also said that the code of discipline was extremely complex and, at times, "cynically manipulated" to promote indiscipline across the force.