Sentence examples for at one time controlled from inspiring English sources

The Brotherhood, which at one time controlled the major professional unions and provided social and health services, has disavowed violence and is represented in Parliament.

Most pointedly, the potential blockbuster will not open with the more realistic mountain peak of Paramount Pictures, the studio that at one time controlled the rights to "Twilight" but let them slip away because someone at the studio decided in 2006 that the series was a dud.

A brutal gang war resulted in and around Montreal, as challengers to the throne of mafia boss Vito Rizzuto — who was arrested in 2004 and died in hospital in 2013 — fought to take over his expansive crime family, which at one time controlled activities throughout New York and Sicily.

Its most recent steward was Disque D. Deane, a financier and real estate developer who at one time controlled the General Motors Building and the nation's largest federally subsidized housing complex, Starrett City in Brooklyn.

Disque D. Deane, a financier and real estate investor who at one time controlled the General Motors Building, shopping centers in New York, Massachusetts and Georgia, and the nation's largest federally subsidized housing complex, Starrett City in Brooklyn, died on Nov. 8 at his home in Boston.

They succeeded in setting up a collectivist counterforce to capitalism that maintained itself intellectually for a century and at one time controlled nearly a quarter of the world's surface area, killed scores of millions and wasted untold trillions of dollars of wealth.

Ross has also plunged into holdings of textiles and coal, at one time controlling 1.2bn tons of US coal reserves.

It has long been a commercial rival of ʿUnayzah to the south, at one time controlling the export of Arab horses and monopolizing the camel caravan trade of Arabia.

Although it always remains an inference, cache points also may have been made by one person at essentially one time, controlling other sources of variation.

The Brunei sultanate was an Islamic kingdom that at one time had controlled the whole island but by the 19th century ruled only in the north and northwest.

The United Nations refugee agency, the UNHCR, described a previous resettlement of 2,231 to seven villages in the Musali division in the southern part of Mannar district, which at one time was controlled by the Tamil Tigers: "The government has applied good practices in I.D.P. return...