Sentence examples for basically under control from inspiring English sources

Despite the companies' insistence last week that the spills were "basically under control", the State Oceanic Administration said on Wednesday that progress was slow and the situation remained worrying.

In 1992 and 1993 about one-fifth of an estimated 250,000 Rohingya refugees who had fled earlier rounds of persecution in Bangladesh, were repatriated, in most cases against their wishes.The government has said that the situation in the state is now basically under control.

But no worries -- it's all to be expected, of course, and therefore it's basically under control.

The attacks were carried out in the heart of Damascus, the capital, which has remained basically under the control of Mr. Assad's loyalist forces.

"The committee is, to put it bluntly, basically under the control of the White House," said Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, the West Virginia Democrat who is vice chairman of the panel.

Although the exact mechanisms might be different in different forms of plasticity, protein synthesis itself is basically under the control of both the transcriptional and translational actions.

I thought we had basically gotten that under control a while ago, especially in the no-nonsense environment of the post-9/11 airplane cabin.

Basically, I now had my menopause symptoms fairly under control without hormone treatment.

In a world (or household) where basically (I like to think) I have it all under control (no pun intended) this is something he can undoubtedly do better.

"Everyone kept saying, 'Be prepared, you're not going to get what you want.' But basically the studio came the first week, and when they saw I had everything under control, nobody showed up for weeks.

"Malaria remains basically out of control in Africa, even though we have the means to decisively bring it under control," he said.