Sentence examples for control of offices from inspiring English sources

A military unit assigned to guard the legislative building instead stepped aside, allowing Mr. Vargas and his supporters to enter, seize control of offices there and proclaim the overthrow of Mr. Mahuad and the dissolution of Congress and the Supreme Court and their replacement by a "People's Parliament".

Protesters have also retained control of offices in four other western cities seized Thursday, though they suffered a setback in Cherkasy, about 150 kilometers (90 miles) southeast of Kiev, where police barricaded the governor's building from inside and prevented them from taking control.

In recall procedures, interrupting routine patterns of fixed office terms may stress the aspect of citizens reclaiming control of office functions.

At some point, Microsoft will have to decide how long they can protect their enterprise control of Office at the cost of losing the global consumer market of the next generation.

Ran finally appeared in 1985, and in its portrait of a great man who has lost control of his offices of power, critics were quick to read the experiences of the director himself.

A5 Mexican Farmer Uprising Hundreds of farmers seized control of government offices in San Salvador Atenco and abducted officials, demanding that the government abandon plans to take their land to build an airport.

And they sent Mr. Martinez to the governor's mansion four years ago in an earlier blow to the Democrats, who had held an almost unbroken control of state offices.

With millions of dollars in jobs, federal contracts and other benefits riding on control of local offices, political campaigns have often been treated as blood feuds.

Armed with machetes and homemade firebombs, hundreds of farmers seized control of government offices here on Thursday night and abducted several local officials, demanding that the government abandon plans to take their land to build a new airport.

Less than a month ago, farmers from the town of San Salvador Atenco seized control of local offices and took about 15 people hostage, warning the government that they would not sell their land at any price.

Concordat of Worms, compromise arranged in 1122 between Pope Calixtus II (1119 24) and the Holy Roman emperor Henry V (reigned 1106 25) settling the Investiture Controversy, a struggle between the empire and the papacy over the control of church offices.