Sentence examples for barely any control from inspiring English sources

The UN had barely any control over events, and one delegate threatened bloodshed on the conference floor.

Douglas-Hamilton: Now that ivory is illegal in China, some of the trade is crossing the border by the setting up of enclaves in Vietnam and Laos, where there is barely any control at all.

Kiev barely has any control.

There's barely any real "control"; as Kelpek writes: "This is a guided story; players merely determine its pacing".

The big impetus for Scottish independence is that under the UK's unitary system, Scotland has barely any direct control over Scottish affairs compared to your bog-standard Canadian province.

Among the 1099 DB sites, we found 55 DB sites exhibiting a unique H3K27ac signature with high amounts of reads in NaBt-treated cells and barely any reads in control cells, all of them involved in cytoskeletal remodeling, synaptic activity and mitochondrial metabolism (Table S2).

While the government in south-central Somalia, which barely controls any territory, receives millions of dollars in direct support from the United Nations and the United States, the Somaliland government "doesn't get a penny," Mr. Said said.

Sometimes the central government seems barely in control.

A brutal paramilitary police force is barely in control of a general chaos.

André Watts said that Horowitz, onstage, was "like a demon barely under control".

A surprisingly weak showing resulted in the party barely retaining control over the powerful lower house.