Crowd manipulation is the intentional use of techniques based on the principles of crowd psychology to engage, control, or influence the desires of a crowd in order to direct its behavior toward a specific action.

The amphitheatre has been cited by modern scholars as a model of sophisticated design, particularly in the area of crowd control.

(i) Continued allegations of inappropriate use of chemical, irritant, incapacitating and mechanical weapons by law enforcement authorities in the context of crowd control.

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However, he doesn t think it s probable as the existence of clergy that is supportive of Alwefaq demands and strategies, will form a method of crowd control.

A specific training package was designed for the Rapid Intervention Unit, aimed at providing refresher training in crowd and riot control, use of force and human rights protection.

The Arab Spring s Crowd Psychology

A crowd of earlier generations

A crowd of earlier generations

And a crowd of the later .

And a crowd of the later .

But how could the crowd become synchronized?

Let's wait until the crowd thins out.

In crowd politics, emotions often supersede goals.

(h) The State party should conduct a public and independent study and a policy review of the crowd control methods, at federal and provincial levels, described in paragraph 57, subparagraph (i) above

In normal times, deficits crowd out private investment (and perhaps crowd in private saving and or foreign capital), and hence reduce future growth.

The crowd yelled when he scored a goal.

The Mission's efforts are being complemented by bilateral support from Angola, France, the United Kingdom, South Africa and the European Union, whose experts are undertaking separate training programmes for crowd control and counter terrorism units.

What if, in the coming crowd of nine billion ...

MONUC has also completed the training of some 674 crowd control personnel in Bukavu, Matadi and Mbuji Mayi and will be conducting similar training programmes in Mbandaka, Mbuji Mayi, Kindu and Kinshasa in the coming weeks.

Currently, formed police units are deployed in Port au Prince (4 units), Les Cayes (1 unit) and Gonaïves (1 unit) to support the national police in static security duties, general operational back up and crowd control.

A huge crowd turned out to protest against carrying weapons.

The crowd was estimated to be between 5,000 and 30,000.

Lebanon was perhaps the first Arab country to experience crowd politics.

The vitality and size of the crowd has surprised and delighted.

And they're thinking, well this will be really useful in places like where we need to clear a crowd out of a particular area, if the crowd is being hostile.

Governments must find a way to prevent small groups from using the crowd effect as political capital, thereby causing crowd sizes to become more decisive than the number of ballots cast.

That key point appears all but lost on the consumer recovery crowd.

From the rear of the huge crowd came shouts Ti mi soara!

Techcrunch calls it proof that a crowd sourced photo agency can work.

The purpose of the gunfire should have been to disperse the crowd.

In the ensuing panic, police opened fire on the crowd and each other.

They also performed for a small crowd at MTV Iggy on March 10.

They're in the crowd, and the crowd is switching on lights, and we can see them for the first time, not as an undifferentiated mass of strangers, but as individuals we can learn from.

Likewise, during expansions, higher government spending is more likely to crowd out private spending.

Islamist militants were crowd sourcing information in the virtual world to target real people.

What better way to motivate athletes than to have a crowd cheering them on?

When the procession reached the palace, soldiers opened fire on the crowd, killing hundreds.

This is a crowd rushing headlong with you . There is no welcome for them .

This is a crowd rushing headlong with you . There is no welcome for them .

Meanwhile, following an assessment of the security challenges posed by current voter registration activities, the Transitional Government increased from 32,000 to 39,000 the number of trained police personnel required to secure the electoral process, including 18,500 officers and crowd control and other specialized units.

Still, the word crowd has taken on an entirely different meaning and political valence in our century. Crowdsourcing and crowd funding have created new kinds of crowds, of the sort that Le Bon never could have imagined.

what if that crowd could learn enough to be net contributors, instead of net plunderers?

We didn't have words like crowd sourcing and radical collaboration when I had my accident.