Sentence examples for assert total control from inspiring English sources

Totalitarianism is a form of government that attempts to assert total control over the lives of its citizens.

Put it this way: Few great men — and I use the term precisely, for Pup was a great man — do not assert total control over their domains.

Totalitarianism attempts to do this by asserting total control over the lives of its citizens, whereas authoritarianism prefers the blind submission of its citizens to authority.

But, curiously, what becomes apparent as you follow the band's arc through the eight albums (plus one double CD of B-sides and outtakes) corralled in the new box set, The Complete Studio Recordings, is that as Ferry gradually asserts total control over the band, the music becomes less characterful.

The New Economic Policy was ended after Joseph Stalin became leader of the Soviet Union and asserted total central control over the economy.

The assault comes after tribal fighters and al-Qaeda militants asserted full control of the city.

"The simplest, most decisive way that Heydrich could ensure the smooth flow of deportations", he writes, "was by asserting his total control over the fate of the Jews in the Reich and the east, and [by] cow[ing] other interested parties into toeing the line of the RSHA".

Last month, Lawrence and Ron Lacks — with the help of a Baltimore publicist willing to make incendiary charges — began a campaign to assert near-total control over the growing endeavors surrounding Henrietta Lacks.

That should have gone without saying: those are the players' club roles and Nigeria certainly looked better balanced as the game went on, asserting near-total control after going ahead.

But they quickly hit a snag, with the opposition demanding access to news media and office space and the Communists, who still maintain near-total control, asserting that they were being confronted with ultimatums and grandstanding.

Total control is totally exhausting.