The phrase "assert more control over" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the desire or need to increase authority or influence over a situation, group, or process.
Example: "The manager aims to assert more control over the project's timeline to ensure timely delivery."
Alternatives: "exert greater authority over" or "gain increased control over".
But in Stamford, tensions between the two sides have been simmering for a decade as officials have worked to assert more control over the city's firefighting operations.
Dr. Caspary viewed the Vatican II reforms of the early 1960s as a mandate for nuns to assert more control over their own lives.
Mr. Sloan, according to the person briefed on the situation, has been eager to assert more control over the funds and unit as part of his push to expand production at MGM.
Several bank officials said that Mr. Easterly's case is one of several recent examples of how Mr. Wolfensohn has sought to assert more control over a raging debate within the bank as he battles outside critics.
WASHINGTON — Congress, at odds with the president, was struggling to assert more control over the federal government through the budget process but could not seem to wrap up its work on deadline.
Nigerian gangs have begun to assert more control over the front end of the process and also increasingly dominate — and profit from — the delivery of the drugs to Europe, whether by sea or air.
Rather than asserting more control over the project, the administration delegated a far bigger role to Accenture, the prominent consulting firm, which was charging the city as much as $383 an hour.
Black artists like Sly Stone and Stevie Wonder were asserting more control over their production, and the impact of genre-blurring guitarists like Jimi Hendrix and Arthur Lee was still strong.
It is one of several establishment wheezes aimed at asserting more control over party primaries that pick candidates for big races.For his pains, Mr Rove has been called a bully and a fake conservative by the right of his party, which once he happily exploited.
Meanwhile, on networks like Instagram, it's now relatively common for teens to delete photos that don't receive enough likes, as a way of asserting more control over how they're perceived on the network.
Expect scheming by the party establishment to assert more control, somehow, over primaries.There are even ways to finesse post-election headlines about Republicans standing at the edge of a demographic precipice after Mr Romney's drubbing at the hands of black Americans, Latinos and Asians.
