Sentence examples for any sort of control from inspiring English sources

FOREIGNERS have always struggled to exercise any sort of control over Afghanistan.

"There was no way you were going to be able to pass the ball up the pitch with any sort of control.

What it comes down to is the powerlessness of families in this situation to have any sort of control over events that shape their lives.

And they found that in monkeys, when killer T-cells were obliterated, AIDS viruses ran rampant, never coming under any sort of control and quickly killing the animals.

Taking the ball at the start of the Mets' 9-1 loss to the Detroit Tigers, Gee lasted just two innings and could not exert any sort of control over his pitches.

On the rare occasions they did threaten the Chelsea penalty area, Suárez and Stewart Downing were both guilty of giving the ball away again, and though Gerrard made a couple of typically determined runs he was not in the game enough to exert any sort of control.

Thanks to Jim Jeffords's defection from the Republicans, they already sort-of control the Senate.

It was only then that we realized we had not touched any buttons or actually held any sort of remote control or electronic device all day; my traditional Xbox controller, festooned with 17 different buttons, triggers and sticks, sat dormant on the coffee table.

Flight combat feels a little chaotic, but it changes the pace, while the additional multi-build sections hint at slightly greater puzzle complexity while stopping short of actually offering any sort of creative control to the player.

I found this less distracting than the rocking and rolling knobs of rival systems, though some people may balk at using any sort of mouselike control in a car.

Will: My first task was to help resolve a merge conflict which took me completely by surprise, I hadn't really expected the groups to be using any sort of version control.