Anagrams of: MANIPULATIONS

• exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage

• the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means

• the political orientation of a Utopian who believes in impossibly idealistic schemes of social perfection

• love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it

• the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other

• the aspiration for national independence felt by people under foreign domination

• the doctrine that nations should act independently (rather than collectively) to attain their goals

• a force that moves something along

• the act of applying force suddenly

• an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants)

• a layered structure

• bonding thin sheets together

• The old geological theory that the rocks forming the Earth were formed in fire by volcanic activity, with a continuing gradual process of weathering and erosion, then deposited on the sea bed, re-formed into layers of sedimentary rock by heat and pressure, and raised again.