Only humans can manipulate the ounces without being affected by their enormous power.

The most fundamental question is: 'Can humans manipulate climate predictably?'

It wasn't publicized that only humans and witches could manipulate ley lines, but anyone could figure it out, and I knew he wanted me to shut up about them.

Fields that humans could manipulate had physical limits, and a hood for mental interface could be nothing else even though it was a towering oval shape and a peculiar dirty yellow.

Immense channels streamed between these lagoons, and between other stands of kelp, to form the great kelpways that humans manipulated for their undersea transport of people and goods.

On the other hand, some people who hold social determinism theory assert technology is neutral, but it is the way that humans manipulate technology which brings about its social impact.

I admire the designers of the code; portraying bond angles, chemical potentials and such in a way that enables humans to efficiently visualize and manipulate them.

Has self-awareness been selected by evolutionary pressures, or is it, to borrow a phrase from Stephen Jay Gould, a "glorious accident," the byproduct of a large intelligence that allows humans to build tools and otherwise manipulate their environment?

They propose that consciousness allows humans to manipulate the most important resource of all - themselves - and to use the invented self as a tool to advance their own interests among their peers.

Another example examines how humans control and manipulate their environment so that cognitive tasks can be better performs.