Sentence examples for control of town from inspiring English sources

Michael Foot's Labour opposition gained control of town halls as the economic policies of the early 1980s started to bite and many Labour council leaders saw themselves as warriors against the Conservative government – she certainly wanted to neutralise them.

Maxine Postal, the County Legislature's presiding officer, is a Democrat from Amityville, and she agreed that it wasn't until Democrats took control of town hall and county government in 1988 that North Amityville started on its road to recovery.

The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says the FN will have little chance of gaining control of town halls in the second round.

After a lightning advance across northern and western Iraq in June, IS took control of town after town, capturing Iraq's second city of Mosul, the strategic Mosul Dam and threatening to overrun the Kurdish capital of Irbil.

Their citizens can struggle for control of towns, corporations, organisations and even of the government itself without any need of brute force.

Florence, humiliated by defeat and weakened by the establishment of a new government, struggled to regain control of towns that had seized the occasion to throw off subjection.

Meanwhile, the revolt against Rome spread in the interior of the island, and a Carthaginian fleet gained control of towns on the south coast.

In recent weeks there has been fierce fighting for control of towns along it, such as Qara, Deir Attiyah and al-Nabak.

The Narcos are the drug cartels who are now brazenly attacking each other in turf wars and challenging the state for control of towns.

In recent weeks fighting for control of towns along it, such as Qara, Deir Attiyah and al-Nabak, has been fierce.

The group fighting the Somali government, reinforced by Kenyan and African Union troops, to re-gain control of towns and cities lost during a crackdown on its insurgency.