Sentence examples for an assertion of control from inspiring English sources

His stage act was in so small part an act of will, an assertion of control over a private world where control was in short supply.

She says this directive from Brandis, "is an assertion of control by the attorney general over the solicitor general for no immediately perceptible reason".

The tribunal is as much an assertion of control by Brady as a process to decide whether he should be moved from psychiatric hospital to prison.

Another common response to technological innovation has been to predict where it will lead, which is also an assertion of control over it.

Shortly after the 6 December elections, Maduro ordered all members of the armed forces back to the barracks in what was widely seen as an assertion of control over the military.

"As a form of political theater, as a form of international gamesmanship, as an assertion of control that marks sovereign power".

The main theme of these appointments is an assertion of greater direct control by Kiyani, who succeeded Musharraf as Army chief late last year.

It consists of an assertion of local institutionalized control over traditional lands which goes well beyond the purview of the usual alternative of the fortress model: the biosphere reserve model of external and internal joint control of natural resources.

Conversion via the influence of the Frankish court would have been seen as an explicit recognition of Frankish overlordship, however, so it is possible that Æthelberht's delay of his conversion until it could be accomplished via Roman influence, might have been an assertion of independence from Frankish control.

Mr. Tucci's clearest assertion of control occurred two weeks ago, when he announced a reorganization dividing the company into three groups and reducing the role of Moshe Yanai, the longtime champion within the company of Symmetrix.

Morsi's broad assertion of control came less than 24 hours after a diplomatic triumph in arranging the cease-fire in Gaza had given new credence to Morsi's international bona fides.