Sentence examples for a desire for control from inspiring English sources

A desire for control.

A desire for control: both Labour and the Conservatives want to be able to implement their programmes when they are in power – greater local autonomy threatens this.

Marnie, Betty, and Charlotte highlight a strange trend in highbrow television: With beauty comes a desire for control – which the character ultimately must lose in humiliating fashion.

We all suffer as a society when parents are too clueless to let go, from guilt or fear or a desire for control.

The eating disorders anorexia and bulimia are associated with low self esteem and a desire for control which becomes linked with body shape, size and weight.

In Study 1, participants completed a neuroticism scale, contemplated their mortality or a control topic, and then completed a desire for control scale.

Another cited a desire for "regaining control over our own destiny".

Others talk of a desire for more control over their schedule, rationalising the switch as a "family values" move.

But a recent poll of Iraqis suggests there is a desire for greater control of their own destiny among both Sunni and Shiite Arabs.

We've seen a desire for more control over B.J.S. from the powers that be, and that's what seemed to get Larry in trouble".

He added that they exhibited a "desire for total control" and said that "under pressure, it looks like a model that is intolerant of reality".