Sentence examples for be control from inspiring English sources

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be control

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To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.

  • With a simple remote, he could control the toy truck.

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"There must be control," Roosevelt wrote in the 1890s.

The worst-case alternatives could be control boards or bankruptcy.

The only thing that would make me leave England would be control over free speech".

They tend to be control freaks about medical care and diet and every other detail of their lives.

As Lehner admits: "I would speculate that social entrepreneurs are more likely to be control freaks than your average entrepreneur.

There are now suggestions that his eventual goal could be control of the Bolshoi.

Being a ghost, he is assigned to haunt a huge white apartment house and to be control for a medium who lives there, Mrs. Rosburgh.

It was taken as a given that the focus of macro-economic policy should be control of inflation rather than full employment.

Just as the watchword of my generation was freedom, that of my daughter's generation seems to be control.

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For those of us, myself included, who have a tendency to be control-freaks at times - this can be incredibly challenging.

Silk sericin could be control-released from the gel.

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