Sentence examples for control long from inspiring English sources

Americans were also practicing birth control long before the pill.

The second was damage control: long pasta and young children mix dangerously, with child, chair and walls ending up beribboned with dripping strands.

Voice control, long the stuff of science fiction and computer lab experiments, is popping up in more and more mundane household devices like clock radios, MP3 players, television remotes, telephones and light switches.

The speech was a success, and it was clear that Nixon had learned the extraordinary ability of television as an instrument of "spin control," long before that term for manipulating public opinion was in circulation.

Had two of them collided and retired from the race they would have promoted Hamilton to fifth and handed him the world championship, but in the event they just about retained their self control long enough to deny the McLaren driver his precious gift.

Van Gaal was less impressed that Michel Vorm was involved so infrequently in the opposite goal, but his team did control long passages of play after Kyle Walker had inadvertently put the ball into his own net midway through the first half and, apart from a late flurry, Tottenham's response to the goal smacked of a team who are undermined by their fragile nerves.

The Fed has been raising short-term rates but does not control long-term rates, and these have simply not tracked higher.

Such splurges are both national strategy — China's goal is to control long-term access to critical commodities — and a matter of necessity if Beijing is to keep its industrial empire running.

Through this work he became committed to understanding the factors that control long-term preservation.

Although coupling is well known to control long-term landscape development and shorter-term sensitivity to disturbance, the anthropogenic influences on coupling are seldom considered in hydrologic investigations.

This suggests that the minerals formed initially during an engineered precipitation application for trace element sequestration may not be the ones that control long-term immobilization of the contaminants.