Sentence examples for claimed control over from inspiring English sources

The state claimed control over the developing industry.

But under Nero, the Romans had claimed control over the kings of Armenia, and under Caracalla they had annexed Osroëne and Upper Mesopotamia.

After a week of upheaval, protesters backed by defecting army units have claimed control over almost the entire eastern half of Libya's 1,000-mile 1,000-mile 1,600-kilometer 1,600-kilometerluding several oil-producing areas.

The brutal militant group also known as ISIS has claimed control over parts of Syria and Iraq and was behind the beheadings of 21 Christian Egyptians in Libya this weekend.

It has aggressively claimed control over thousands of miles of the South China Sea, sending oil drilling rigs and warships to explore and build up mini-islets on coral reefs, creating landing strips for military planes.

Writing from Moscow before the Syrian regime claimed control over all of Aleppo, Vladimir Frolov proposes that the best course for the Kremlin now would be, "declaring victory in Aleppo, scaling down its military operations against the rebels, refocusing its air war on ISIS in a new collaborative effort with the U.S. and pressuring the Assad regime into a political settlement". .

But Mr. Beatty, below, maintains that Tribune Media Services, claiming control over the character, is thwarting him.

Or are they just trying to claim control over the narrative of the last century's most massive brutality?

But there is literally nowhere on Earth for me to go without some government claiming control over my person.

There our society claims control over the lives of men and women; there we assume the roles of gods.

Biraderi loyalties have allowed influential figures in the community to claim control over blocks of votes that can run into the hundreds.