But in order to protect the status quo against an increasingly well-funded and tactically adept gun control movement, the NRA and its allies have largely relied on escalatory rhetoric - hence the apocalyptic language that greeted Obama's extremely limited executive action this week.
These were iron-clad user interfaces designed to allow an adept few control the flow of information.
Although this is not a bilingual advantage in the traditional sense, as it is within-group rather than compared to monolinguals, it indicates that high-proficiency bilinguals may be more adept at controlling interference from their L2, demonstrating superior cognitive control abilities with increasing language proficiency.
Francisco had become adept at controlling his feelings.
As it shrinks, the music industry is becoming ever more adept at controlling what enters the mainstream.
That bank "has been more adept at controlling costs and not paying top dollar" for brokerage assets compared with banks elsewhere, he said.
During this period, the Kabul government, run by President Najibullah, a former secret police chief who became a politically adept strongman, controlled an archipelago of Afghan cities.
THE Chinese Communist Party's Publicity Department (or Propaganda Department, a closer rendering of the Chinese) is adept at controlling news from abroad that might inflame sentiment at home.
Even if people don't learn the technique behind how to sing, you use your voice for the purpose of speech so everyone's reasonably adept at controlling it.
Mike Bantom, a '72 player who is now a senior vice president for player development with the N.B.A., added, "We particularly struggled against the Russians because they were adept at controlling the tempo".
Although the Chinese government has become increasingly adept at controlling information available to its 440 million Internet users, several people with knowledge of the government's deliberations said the Nobel Prize presented propaganda officials with a daunting challenge: how to smear what many ordinary Chinese see as honor without fanning interest in Mr. Liu.
