In a state controlled by fear, it was difficult to find reliable witnesses.
In a state controlled by Democrats at all three levels, the corporation still finds a way to win.
Despite the Democrats' efforts, then, Wisconsin remains a state controlled by the Republican party, with a one-seat majority in the state senate.
But as much as Texas seeks to retain its mythical attachment to commodities like cotton, cattle and oil, it is increasingly becoming a state controlled by people who buy and sell financial products.
It appears to be modeled on Moscow in the Soviet era, or Berlin in the Nazi era: a state controlled by a massive entity called CENTRAL Central Intelligence.
Thursday's explosion in the Dahiyeh an almost autonomous state-within-a-state controlled by the Lebanese Shia party Hezbollah was the second of such attacks to hit the area in the last couple of months.
Standard & Poor's has raised Buffalo's credit rating, citing the city's improving finances and continued oversight by a state control board.
It's official: the finances of Nassau County will not be taken over by a state control board, but the state will be watching, very carefully, as the county tries to pull itself back into the black.
"There is no question that this, in essence, could be the start of a four-year road map dictated by a state control board," said Desmond M. Ryan, executive director of the Association for a Better Long Island, a nonprofit developers' lobby.
It's like, are we on the same planet?" Others called the proposal a giveaway that the county, whose finances were taken over by a state control board in January, could ill afford.
Most important, the city was given several years to spread the pain and straighten out its finances back then, while it is now obligated by law to balance its budget each year or risk a takeover of its finances by a state control board.
