Sentence examples for a means of control from inspiring English sources

In "demonlover," which involves corporate intrigue and pornography, sex is a commodity and a spectacle, a means of control and a weapon of power.

For some people, collecting in all its forms (baseball cards, vintage cars, old pornos) can be "a means of control to elicit a comfort zone in one's life, like calming fears or erasing insecuritm".

"I know for a fact the way Aboriginal men have controlled remote communities – culturally, secrecy is used a means of control, controlling women and controlling economies, and it has gone on far too long," she said.

Observation is not just a means of control.

Rations were used, as any other necessity or reward during enslavement, as a means of control.

Names in Egyptian culture have an innate power, and can be a means of control.

Traditionally, labour unions were government-run – more a means of controlling workers than representing their interests.

Dampers are to air as valves are to water: a means of controlling airflow.

Specific SGLT2 inhibitors are being developed as a novel means of controlling hyperglycaemia in T2DM.

Reconstruction should be in the hands of Iraqis, not delayed as a means of controlling them, as Washington has indicated.

Central to Jarecki's argument is the contention that drug laws were introduced as a means of controlling ethnic minorities.