Sentence examples for a controlling person from inspiring English sources

Moodiness is a key signal of a controlling person, precisely because those with moody personalities tend to be mulling over perceived hurts and injustices that have happened to them personally and seek to remedy their internal pain and improve their situation by controlling others.

He was such a controlling person.

"I'll admit it, I'm a bit of a controlling person," Fassel said.

"He's a controlling person," she observes, "but he gave me the script, and for him the thrill was letting it be mine".

The C.F.T.C. is also trying to hold Mr. Corzine responsible for MF Global's misconduct, which the firm admitted in a settlement, by showing that he was a "controlling person".

An obscure provision of a federal statute adopted in 1988 allows the S.E.C. to seek a triple penalty for any profits or losses avoided when a "controlling person" knowingly or recklessly fails "to establish, maintain, or enforce any policy or procedure" against insider trading.

You should always see yourself as an equal of the controlling person, even if his or her behavior suggests otherwise.

But I'm also a control person.

He said Mr. Genovese was "an insider, a control person, a debt-holder and a stockholder" who had received "sweetheart deals" while management pay was being reduced.

Ramone, whom Vega described as a "control person", vetoed an early suggestion that the statue might be of the entire band.

The two directors denied that Mr. Genovese was a control person but did not indicate they had asked him how many shares he controlled.