Sentence examples for control of the mountains from inspiring English sources

Control of the mountains was loosening.

Political control of the mountains was settled in 1891 when tsarist forces rebuffed the British at Bozai Gombaz (Bazai Gombad) in the southern Pamirs.

After three years of fighting, neither side was able to gain complete control of the mountains.

Several lawmakers and advocates for changes in school food believe that an amendment to the $286 billion farm bill is the best chance to get control of the mountain of high-calorie snacks and sodas available to schoolchildren.

In 2005, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors elected to vacate the Ridge Route, giving up their control of the mountain motorway and ceding stewardship to the U.S. Forest Service, over whose land the road had always traveled.

The rebels have ambitious plans of consolidating control of the western mountain region and using it as a staging ground for an assault on the oil city of Zawiyah and, finally, the heavily fortified capital, Tripoli.

No one company had complete control of the entire mountain.

Nevertheless, despite his frequent and destructive raids against the Byzantine frontier provinces and into Asia Minor, and his victories in the field, his mode of warfare was essentially defensive, and he never seriously attempted to challenge Byzantine control of the crucial mountain passes or conclude alliances with other local rulers in an effort to roll back the Byzantine conquests.

Sherpas are also gradually taking control of how the mountain is managed.

His party enjoys all the advantages that come with monopolising state power for decades: a captive government bureaucracy, near-total control of the media and mountains of cash.

While the Bacrims fight for control of the lowlands, in the mountains, sitting on the coca fields, are the Marxist rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) and the smaller National Liberation Army (ELN).