What's the difference between frob and manipulate?

Frob


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bankia needed a further €4.5bn emergency injection of capital from Spain's state FROB rescue fund on Monday as it prepared itself for the eurozone bailout.
  • (2) Spain already had a restructuring fund for its banks – known as FROB – which will provide the resources for the recapitalisation of Bankia.
  • (3) "While the restructuring process is completed, the Frob intends to inject capital shortly," it said.
  • (4) The judge has also summoned the former governor of the Bank of Spain , the president of Stock Market National Commission, the Deloitte partner who worked for Bankia and the legal representative of the Frob (Fondo de Reestructuración Ordenada Bancaria) to testify.
  • (5) The decision to use the Frob to inject capital into Bankia rather than an emergency facility set aside by the eurozone rescue fund, came as the finance ministry failed to give full details of what losses would be born by shareholders and small investors who bought hybrid preference shares in banks that receive eurozone money.
  • (6) The Fund for the Orderly Bank Restructuring (Frob) said Bankia's restructuring plan should be ready by October, allowing eurozone rescue money to arrive in November.
  • (7) Lisp combined with the FROBS expert system shell permitted a declarative representation of each of the components of the experiment, resulting in a transplant specification of the problem within a maintainable system.
  • (8) A single intravenous introduction of prospidin-C14 was found to be followed by its quick (in 2 hours) disappearance frob the blood.
  • (9) However, De Guindos said Spain's most troubled bank, Bankia, will get urgent aid and the country's bailout fund, the FROB, said it was injecting €4.5bn into the ailing lender.
  • (10) The money will be funnelled through Spain's existing bailout fund, called the Frob, and will add to the country's modest but quickly growing national debt with the government "retaining the full responsibility".
  • (11) Spain asked for the money to go to its FROB bank rescue fund, increasing the national debt.

Manipulate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate scientific apparatus.
  • (v. t.) To control the action of, by management; as, to manipulate a convention of delegates; to manipulate the stock market; also, to manage artfully or fraudulently; as, to manipulate accounts, or election returns.
  • (v. i.) To use the hands in dexterous operations; to do hand work; specifically, to manage the apparatus or instruments used in scientific work, or in artistic or mechanical processes; also, specifically, to use the hand in mesmeric operations.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Similar experimental manipulation has yielded in vitro lines established from avian B-cell lymphomas expressing elevated levels of c-myc or v-rel.
  • (2) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
  • (3) aeruginosa and Enterococci) were significantly reduced in number during the manipulation (Fig.
  • (4) By growing purified human cytotrophoblasts under serum-free conditions and manipulating the culture surface, we were able to disassociate morphologic from biochemical differentiation.
  • (5) It would be "very easy to manipulate and access one of our vehicles", he said.
  • (6) Technical manipulations to improve resolution were time consuming and added little to the accuracy of the test.
  • (7) The prognosis was adversely affected by obesity, preoperative flexion contracture of 30 degrees or more, wound-healing problems, wound infection, and postoperative manipulation under general anesthesia.
  • (8) The intracranial pressure can then be studied and experimentally manipulated.
  • (9) Results show that responses to motion of cortical cells are particularly sensitive to these manipulations.
  • (10) Although a similar conjugation of the B polysaccharide failed to substantially enhance its immunogenicity in mice, this could be achieved by further chemical manipulation of the basic structure of the B polysaccharide.
  • (11) Given the liberalist context in which we live, this paper argues that an act-oriented ethics is inadequate and that only a virtue-oriented ethics enables us to recognize and resolve the new problems ahead of us in genetic manipulation.
  • (12) Thus, both energy intake and expenditure were manipulated to result in an energy deficit of 50 percent.
  • (13) The advantages of pars plana approach are the small incision and minimal ocular manipulation during surgery.
  • (14) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
  • (15) Hogan-Howe said allegations, from three whistleblowers, that there is widespread manipulation of the figures are currently being investigated.
  • (16) A preliminary "profile" of the patient with low back pain who would likely benefit from manual therapy included acute symptom onset with less than a 1-month duration of symptoms, central or paravertebral pain distribution, no previous exposure to spinal manipulation, and no pending litigation or workers' compensation.
  • (17) Especially once the Libor scandal gave a clear signal of how markets could be manipulated.
  • (18) Micronutrient antioxidants such as alpha-tocopherol, the principal lipid-soluble antioxidant, assume potential significance because levels can be manipulated by dietary measures without resulting in side effects.
  • (19) Animals in Groups 2 and 3 underwent exposure and manipulation of the right ureter.
  • (20) Such analysis provides criteria, based on the response of the components to experimental manipulations, for identifying those aspects of the ERP recorded in other species that are analogous to specific ERP components recorded from human subjects.