Sentence examples for close to absolute control from inspiring English sources

In one lawsuit, a California judge ruled that FedEx Ground was engaged in an elaborate ruse in which FedEx "has close to absolute control" over the drivers.

This is a system that is very close to absolute mayoral control.

The control in Albany is so close to absolute that the Capitol, for all its trappings and its armies of protesters, often seems eerily vacant.

Within the Kerry organization, there is no real counterpart to Rove, whose background in direct mail gives him an advantage in a contest where the turnout in every county in a contested state may be crucial, and whose control of a campaign's message is close to absolute.

Governments have come to believe that their right to rule is close to absolute.

Which acknowledgment may finally be as close to absolute intimacy as any of us can stand.

Everything is relative, even when the temperature feels close to absolute zero.

Saddam has anywhere from fifteen hundred to fifteen thousand troops he could count on for something close to absolute loyalty.

And Mr Putin's power during his next (and, barring constitutional changes, final) term will be close to absolute.

The team prepared the sample at -269C, close to absolute zero - the lowest temperature possible.

Sustaining entanglement has tended to mean cooling the particles down close to absolute zero to remove that jostling.